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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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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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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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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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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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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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By Library Communications 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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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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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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By Jessica Woolman on February 23, 2017
UBC Library now accepting submissions for 2nd annual Arkley Croquet Collection Prize.
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