Sheryl Adam
Religous Belief and Analytical Thinking: Read All About It
UBC Psychology Department’s Will Gervais and Ara Norenzayan’s recent article in Science has been very widely reported in news media and on the web in general. For your convenience, here’s a link to the full text of the article that has interested tens of thousands of people over the past week. Will M. Gervais and [...]
Cyberloafing, and when it’s especially hard to resist
Have you even spent work or study time surfing the web for your personal interests? That’s cyberloafing and if you’ve been doing more of it this week, you’re not alone. “The switch to Daylight Savings Time (DST) results in a dramatic increase in cyberloafing behavior at the national [US] level.” Researchers used Google’s archival data [...]
JSTOR: Learn More
JSTOR, a key resource in humanities and social sciences, offers short training videos on a number of topics, including advanced search techniques and how to set up alerts for new articles in your area(s) of interest. Most videos are fewer than 5 minutes long. Frequent JSTOR users should definitely have a look.
Upcoming Workshop: Data Demystified
Does your work require a data set for secondary analysis? Learn how to find and download data from household surveys. The session will focus on the library’s collection of survey data as well as data archives to which UBC researchers have full access: Statistics Canada surveys; Public opinion polls collected by the Roper Center for [...]
Graduate Student Workshops in a Day: Wednesday, February 22
Discover | Gather | Create | Share Graduate Student Workshops in a Day: Koerner Library, Wednesday, February 22 We’ve chosen a day during reading week to offer eight of our most popular workshops for graduate students and any interested faculty, instructors, post-docs or RA’s. See a complete list of workshops here, or browse the listings [...]
Upcoming Workshop: Overview of UBC LIbrary Statistical Databases
The first part of the workshop will consist of an overview of key Canadian, US and international statistical databases available through the UBC Library. You will have the opportunity to work on sample questions and/or your own research questions using the new tools. Wednesday, February 15th, 2012 at 10:00AM – 11:30AM Koerner Library Room 217 [...]
Online Research Collections Feature
To mark Black History Month, we feature an extraordinary online collection from Alexander Street Press: “Black Thought and Culture is a landmark electronic collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major black leaders in North America . . . including Frederick Douglass and including those of W.E.B. Du Bois, Carter G. Woodson, [...]
Upcoming Workshop: Citation Analysis and Impact Factors in your Academic Career
Understanding the Role of Citation Analysis and Impact Factors in your Academic Career Learn how to use tools that measure the impact of articles, journals and individual scholars including you! You will leave this workshop knowing how to : use ISI Web of Science and Google Scholar to track citations calculate impact factors of individual [...]
Upcoming Workshop: Digging into Digital Book Collections
Learn how to further your research by using digital book collections including Google Books and the Hathi Trust. You will leave this workshop knowing: • how to search within books to locate research material not evident from title or chapter descriptions • conduct more thorough literature reviews on primary sources • perform cited reference searches [...]
Upcoming Workshop: How to do research for a literature review
Learn a step-by-step approach to identify databases, primary sources and other research tools and then to perform comprehensive searches and keep track of what you’ve found. Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 1:00PM – 3:30PM Koerner Library, Room 216 Bring your own laptop Register online at http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/2832
