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UBC Library becomes first Canadian institution to join Dryad membership
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.
The UBC Library Research Commons helps UBC Future Waters Research Excellence Cluster visualize research outputs
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.
UBC researchers can now access BC Assessment data through UBC Library
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.
The UBC Library Research Commons integrates open-source data discovery tool Geodisy with Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR)
The UBC Library Research Commons has released a major update to the open-source data discovery tool Geodisy.
The UBC Library Research Commons helps researchers build core skills for digital scholarship
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.
GIScience Workshop Series
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.
The UBC Library Research Commons launches open-source geospatial data discovery tool
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.
Meet Fernando Murillo, Graduate Student Peer at UBC Library
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.
Level 4 and part of level 5 of Koerner Library closed for construction until early 2019
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.
Reading Week activities round-up at UBC Library
Attend one of these workshops and exhibitions at UBC Library from February 15-19.