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UBC Library digitizes rare collection of World War II-era kamishibai plays
UBC Library has digitized an extremely rare collection of World War II-era propaganda plays from Japan, presented in a format known as kamishibai, or paper theatre, plays.
UBC Library has acquired access to the digital archives of the Vancouver Sun newspaper
UBC faculty, staff and students can now access the digital archives of The Vancouver Sun newspaper from 1912 to 2010. Library users will have access to not only the articles, but to the entire published page in these fully searchable archives.
UBC Library acquires Afghan primary source databases
UBC faculty, staff and students can now access the Afghan Serials Collection (DA-ASC) Partisan Publications from the Wahdat Library as well as the Afghan Central Press digital archive, addressing in part the needs of student and faculty conducting research in Afghan Studies.
HathiTrust Emergency Temporary Access Service to be deactivated August 23, 2021
The HathiTrust Emergency Temporary Access Service (ETAS), put in place in July 2020 to provide UBC Library faculty, students and other researchers remote access to print materials that were restricted during the COVID-19 outbreak, will be deactivated Monday, August 23, 2021.
UBC Library Digital Initiatives creates COVID-19 web archives to document pandemic response in British Columbia
Over the past year, a team at UBC Library has been creating web archives to preserve materials relating to the COVID-19 pandemic response in British Columbia for future research.
UBC Library has acquired access to the digital archives of The Province newspaper
UBC faculty, staff and students can now access the digital archives of The Province newspaper from 1894 to 2010.
UBC Library users now able to access digital editions of essential French literature published by Classiques Garnier
UBC Library has acquired twenty-eight series from the 2021 ebook frontlist collection published by Classiques Garnier, which feature select digital editions of French and Francophone literature.
UBC Library subscribes to LWW Health Library to address course needs for e-books
UBC Library has purchased temporary electronic access to approximately 200 titles in LWW Health Library to meet the new demand for remote teaching and learning materials for use in health sciences courses at UBC.
New browser extension allows for seamless access to UBC Library’s online resources
The Library Access browser extension provides access to UBC Library subscriptions from anywhere on the web.
UBC Library users now able to access the most authoritative resource on world languages
The Ethnologue database contains datasets, analytics, maps, country profiles, language families, and language profiles of the world’s 7,111 known living languages.