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UBC Library users now able to access digital editions of essential French literature published by Classiques Garnier

UBC Library users now able to access digital editions of essential French literature published by Classiques Garnier

By Anna Moorhouse on March 30, 2021

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.

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UBC Library subscribes to LWW Health Library to address course needs for e-books

UBC Library subscribes to LWW Health Library to address course needs for e-books

By Anna Moorhouse on November 12, 2020

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.

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New browser extension allows for seamless access to UBC Library’s online resources

New browser extension allows for seamless access to UBC Library’s online resources

By michelle blackwell on June 1, 2020

The Library Access browser extension provides access to UBC Library subscriptions from anywhere on the web.

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UBC Library users now able to access the most authoritative resource on world languages

UBC Library users now able to access the most authoritative resource on world languages

By michelle blackwell on February 10, 2020

The Ethnologue database contains datasets, analytics, maps, country profiles, language families, and language profiles of the world’s 7,111 known living languages.

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UBC Library users now able to access the digital archives of Maclean’s Magazine and the Toronto Star

UBC Library users now able to access the digital archives of Maclean’s Magazine and the Toronto Star

By michelle blackwell on June 27, 2019

Digital archives like these are changing the parameters of what’s possible in research while improving accessibility.

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UBC Library digitizes Kelmscott Chaucer and launches digital colouring book series

UBC Library digitizes Kelmscott Chaucer and launches digital colouring book series

By Anna Moorhouse on May 17, 2018

When UBC Library acquired the Kelmscott Press’ Works of Geoffrey Chaucer in 2016, the book’s preservation story was just beginning.

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New interactive maps of UBC Library’s Open Collections use linked open data

New interactive maps of UBC Library’s Open Collections use linked open data

By Anna Moorhouse on March 1, 2018

UBC Library co-op student Carolina Roman Amigo wanted to make it easier for researchers to understand the thousands of scanned resources found in our Open Collections.

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UBC student wins Library’s Croquet Collection Prize

UBC student wins Library’s Croquet Collection Prize

By Jessica Woolman on August 10, 2017

UBC fourth-year student Mariah Dear is the second winner of UBC Library’s annual Croquet Collection Prize.

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UBC Library users now able to access ancient Greek and Latin literature with the Digital Loeb Classical Library

UBC Library users now able to access ancient Greek and Latin literature with the Digital Loeb Classical Library

By michelle blackwell on July 13, 2017

Users can now browse, search, bookmark, annotate, and share content across more than 520 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts.

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Members of the class of 1932 at their 20-year reunion in 1952.

A gift from the past: UBC’s class of 1932 funds access to 343 ebooks 85 years after graduation

By michelle blackwell on April 6, 2017

An endowment established by UBC’s class of 1932 is funding the Library’s annual contribution to Knowledge Unlatched, an Open Access scholarly ebook platform.

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