Humanities & Social Sciences at Koerner Library

Religous Belief and Analytical Thinking: Read All About It

Sheryl Adam — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:27:03 +0000

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 Ara Norenzayan. Analytic Thinking Promotes Religious Disbelief. Science 336, 493 (2012). DOI: 10.1126/science.1215647

Census GIS at next UBC GIS Users Group Meeting

tombritt — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:30:08 +0000

Census GIS is the topic for this month’s GIS Users Group meeting. Tom Brittnacher, the GIS Librarian, will be talking about how to get census data and geographic boundaries out of SimplyMap and Abacus, and into GIS.

Wednesday, March 28
3:00 – 4:00 PM
Koerner Library, Level 2, Room 216

Cyberloafing, and when it’s especially hard to resist

Sheryl Adam — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:55:05 +0000

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 (via Google Insights for Search) to compare the number of searches in Google’s “Entertainment” category made before and after the change to Daylight Savings Time. Read the complete article here:

Wagner, D. T., Barnes, C. M., Lim, V. G., & Ferris, D. (2012). Lost Sleep and Cyberloafing: Evidence From the Laboratory and a Daylight Saving Time Quasi-Experiment. Journal Of Applied Psychology, doi:10.1037/a0027557

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JSTOR: Learn More

Sheryl Adam — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 23:54:34 +0000

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

Sheryl Adam — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:48:30 +0000

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 Public Opinion Research ; and Survey data created by academics, governments, research institutes and media outlets and housed at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

Date:Wednesday, February 29th, 2012 at 10:00AM – 11:30AM
Location: Koerner Library, Rm 217
Registration: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/2885

Graduate Student Workshops in a Day: Wednesday, February 22

Sheryl Adam — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:48:21 +0000

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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 below. No need to attend all day: choose just the workshop(s) that interest you.

9:30-noon
Literature Reviews – Great Research Starts Here
More info and online registration at http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/2956

9:30-noon
Scholar, Blogger, Tweeter, Author: Building Your Academic Profile
More info and online registration at http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/2957

1:00-2:00 pm
Scholars Rights and Responsibilities
Publishing agreements, copyright permissions and more.
More info and online registration at http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/2954

1:00-2:00 pm
Web of Science: Not Just for Scientists
More info and online registration at http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/2958

2:00-3:00 pm
Using Data and GIS in Research
More info and online registration at http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/2994

2:00-3:00 pm
Digging into Digital Collections
More info and online registration at http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/2959

3:30-4:30 pm
Current Awareness Tools
More info and online registration at http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/2955

3:30-4:30 pm
ABC’s of Citation Management
More info and online registration at http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/2960

Spatial Aspects of Health Research at February GIS Users Group Meeting

tombritt — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:32:01 +0000

Spatial aspects of health research will be the theme of this month’s UBC GIS Users Group meeting. We will have three presenters, each giving a brief description of their use of GIS and mapping in health research. If there’s time, we’ll follow with a general discussion about the use of GIS technology and data in health research.

Event details:
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
3:00 – 4:00pm
Koerner Library, Level 2, Room 216

Presentations:

“Three Projects Applying GIS in Public Health: Mapping Local Social Barriers to Sexual Health Clinics in Two Rural Communities, Provincial Emergency/Hormonal Contraceptive Use Trough Time, and National Abortion Travel Patterns.”
Anthony Smith, Human Early Learning Partnership Knowledge Translation Team

“Neighbourhood Environment in Waterloo Region: Patterns of Transportation and Health”
Josh van Loon, School of Community and Regional Planning Active Transportation Lab

“Spatial Epidemiology of Lung Cancer in Canada: Examining the Role of Air Pollution and Neighborhood Deprivation”
Perry Hystad, PhD Candidate, School of Population and Public Health

Upcoming Workshop: Overview of UBC LIbrary Statistical Databases

Sheryl Adam — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:09:17 +0000

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

Sheryl Adam — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:27:56 +0000

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, Alain Locke, Paul Robeson, Booker T. Washington, Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey, Langston Hughes, Muhammad Ali, Sammy Davis, Jr., Ida B. Wells, Nikki Giovanni . . . and dozens more.”
Approximately 20% of the material had not been published previously and is unique to this collection.

Upcoming Workshop: Citation Analysis and Impact Factors in your Academic Career

Sheryl Adam — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:02:39 +0000

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 scholars and journals and whether this is informative in your discipline

Thursday, February 9th, 2012 at 5:00PM – 6:00PM
Koerner Library
Room 217

Online registration here: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/2836