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Research Commons

The quest for hidden gem study spaces at UBC Library with Billie Hu

The quest for hidden gem study spaces at UBC Library with Billie Hu

By phoebe chan on September 6, 2022

Billie Hu gives us a tour of her favourite study location and shares with us the many resources within this space.

Posted in Carousel, General | Tagged with hiddengems, Koerner Library, library spaces, Research Commons, spaces, Strategic Framework

UBC Library becomes first Canadian institution to join Dryad membership

UBC Library becomes first Canadian institution to join Dryad membership

By Library Communications on January 10, 2022

As the first institutional member of Dryad in Canada, UBC Library joins a thriving global community of universities, research institutions and academic libraries all working together to promote data publishing, curation, and preservation.

Posted in General | Tagged with Research Commons, research learning and scholarship

The UBC Library Research Commons helps UBC Future Waters Research Excellence Cluster visualize research outputs

The UBC Library Research Commons helps UBC Future Waters Research Excellence Cluster visualize research outputs

By Anna Moorhouse on December 7, 2021

The UBC Library Research Commons partnered with the UBC Future Waters Research Excellence Cluster to find a workflow that would create graphical representations of the cluster’s publication information.

Posted in Carousel, General | Tagged with data, Research Commons, research learning and scholarship, UBC Future Waters

UBC researchers can now access BC Assessment data through UBC Library

UBC researchers can now access BC Assessment data through UBC Library

By Anna Moorhouse on July 13, 2021

UBC Library has extensive expertise in stewarding licensed data, and the addition of the Data Advice and Inventory Extracts provided by BC Assessment to its available datasets on Abacus is a huge win for the UBC research community.

Posted in General | Tagged with data, Research Commons, research learning and scholarship

The UBC Library Research Commons integrates open-source data discovery tool Geodisy with Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR)

The UBC Library Research Commons integrates open-source data discovery tool Geodisy with Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR)

By Anna Moorhouse on May 18, 2021

The UBC Library Research Commons has released a major update to the open-source data discovery tool Geodisy.

Posted in General | Tagged with Research Commons, research learning and scholarship

The UBC Library Research Commons helps researchers build core skills for digital scholarship

The UBC Library Research Commons helps researchers build core skills for digital scholarship

By Anna Moorhouse on October 15, 2020

The UBC Library Research Commons at Koerner Library is at the forefront of a digital scholarship renaissance at UBC, with Digital Scholarship Librarian Ekatarina Grgurić contributing to a slew of new workshops and initiatives.

Posted in General | Tagged with Research Commons

GIScience Workshop Series

GIScience Workshop Series

By Anna Moorhouse on July 28, 2020

GIScience is a new UBC Library Research Commons workshop series (July 30 to August 14) for graduate students who want to develop their digital scholarship skills.

Posted in Events | Tagged with Research Commons, spaces and services, workshops

The UBC Library Research Commons launches open-source geospatial data discovery tool

The UBC Library Research Commons launches open-source geospatial data discovery tool

By Anna Moorhouse on April 29, 2020

The UBC Library Research Commons has launched Geodisy, an open-source tool that allows users to search online for Canadian research data through map-based discovery.

Posted in General | Tagged with Research Commons, research learning and scholarship

Meet Fernando Murillo, Graduate Student Peer at UBC Library

Meet Fernando Murillo, Graduate Student Peer at UBC Library

By Anna Moorhouse on January 4, 2019

Fernando Murillo worked as a Graduate Student Peer for Thesis and Dissertation Support at UBC Library’s Research Commons from September 2017 to July 2018.

Posted in General | Tagged with profile, Research Commons

Level 4 and part of level 5 of Koerner Library closed for construction until early 2019

Level 4 and part of level 5 of Koerner Library closed for construction until early 2019

By michelle blackwell on September 17, 2018

This renovation will result in an expanded Research Commons, providing technology rich, inviting spaces integrated with services from across the library and the campus conducive to graduate scholarship and advanced research.

Posted in General | Tagged with closures, construction, Koerner Library, Research Commons

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