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Awarding graduate student excellence
Outstanding work from graduate students is being recognized by a new award from UBC’s digital repository and the UBC Vancouver Graduate Student Society (GSS).
Open UBC, open to all: Oct. 31 – Nov. 1
You are invited to Open UBC – a two-day showcase of diverse events highlighting areas of open scholarship.
Guest lecturer: The future of scholarly publishing
Dr. Kathleen Fitzpatrick will discuss how academic institutions are facing a crisis in scholarly publishing.
UBC Library Autumn Update in the BCLA Browser
UBC Library’s Autumn Update appears in the new issue of the BCLA Browser, the newsletter of the British Columbia Library Association. Have a read to find out about the new UBC fundraising and alumni engagement campaign; copyright and UBC; the Smart Business, Small Business events; a Chinese Canadian Stories preview: the Open UBC series, held […]
UBC Library in open access Partnership journal
An article from UBC Library’s Science and Engineering team appears in the open access journal Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research. The piece, entitled “Teaching Matters: Increasing Library Visibility through Integrated Classroom Instruction,” is by Eugene Barsky (Librarian), Aleteia Greenwood (Head) and Kevin Read (student librarian and student at UBC’s […]
E-books examined in Maclean’s
Maclean’s magazine recently published a story on e-books that mentions a number of Canadian university libraries, including UBC Library. You can view the article here.
Mining for information
A new offering from UBC Library at the University of British Columbia enables users to access decades of valuable information on mine reclamation for free. Each year, the British Columbia Mine Reclamation Symposium is presented by the B.C. Technical and Research Committee on Reclamation (TRCR). This first symposium was held in 1977 as a response […]
Open Access Week at UBC
Showcasing Open Scholarship at UBC UBC is once again participating in the International Open Access Week event, where the worldwide research and academic community share and learn about open access and other open scholarship movements. The event runs from Monday, October 18 through Friday, October 22. The open access movement is based on the principle […]
UBC Library project in the Northern Miner newspaper
Mining for reclamation information at UBC By Glenn Drexhage and Eugene Barsky of the UBC Library. Special to The Northern Miner A new offering from UBC Library at the University of British Columbia enables users to access decades of valuable information on mine reclamation for free. Each year, the British Columbia Mine Reclamation Symposium is […]