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Year-long trial access to streaming videos from the Alexander Street Press
UBC Library has negotiated trial access for a year to the Alexander Street Press’s VAST: Academic Video Online, a multi-disciplinary streaming video collection: http://resources.library.ubc.ca/page.php?id=2140 This database currently contains over 17,000 titles and coves a wide range of subject areas, including business and economics and current affairs. 5,000 new titles will be added during this next […]
Database Trials: Mergent Online and Mint Global
Sauder School researchers and students have trial access for the next month to two important databases of international public and private company information. Mergent Online provides access to comprehensive business and financial information on public and private companies worldwide. Researchers can display and download up to fifteen years of detailed financial information for public companies, […]
Spotlight on SpringerLink
SpringerLink is a multidisciplinary database of full text publications published by Springer. It provides access to over 2,700 ejournals and more than 55,000 ebooks, as well as reference works, monographic series and lecture notes. Disciplines covered include Business & Economics, Mathematics & Statistics, Computer Science, Behavioral Science, and Professional & Applied Computing.There are over 5,000 […]
Warc (World Advertising Research Center)
The David Lam Library has subscribed to Warc (formerly the World Advertising Research Center), a marketing database. UBC researchers now have access to Advertising expenditure data from 80 global markets, a comparison of global media costs and ad spending forecasts for 12 key countries, as well as a wide range of media usage statistics and […]
U Minnesota provides database of open textbooks
The University of Minnesota has provided an online database of peer-reviewed, open textbooks. The textbooks are reviewed by instructors at UMinn at other universities. Open textbooks are complete textbooks released under a Creative Commons, or similar, license. Instructors can customize open textbooks to fit their course needs by remixing, editing, and adding their own content. Students can […]
McGraw-Hill ebook library
The David Lam Library recently subscribed to three years of access to three modules from McGraw-Hill’s ebook library Entrepreneurship & Small Business Management (30 titles) Finance & Investing (134 titles) Leadership & Management (99 titles) Many of the books are useful as introductory texts. Users can read full-text content online, as content cannot be downloaded. […]
UBC Library Home Page Design Survey
The main UBC Library Homepage provides access to library-wide services and collections, including the catalogue, online databases and journals, and many local digitization projects.UBC Library wants to ensure that students and researchers can use this page to easily find their way to relevant, high quality content. In order to improve its homepage design the Library […]
Three new transportation-related research guides
Three new transportation-related research guides have been added to the David Lam Library website. David Lam librarians designed these guides to provide researchers and students with credible starting points for researching transportation related topics. The guides identify relevant books and media, article sources, databases, industry associations, government agencies, and scholarly resources. They also include tips […]
Current Awareness for Business Researchers Workshop: March 8
Are you looking for additional ways to keep current with the latest literature in your field? Did you know that you can set up alerts within many resources available through the library that will notify you about new content in your research area? In support of Celebrate Research Week, the David Lam Library is offering […]
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) – Trial Access
UBC Library is running a trial of the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS):http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1814 IBSS “includes over two million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. It is unique in its broad coverage of international material and incorporates over 100 languages and countries. Over 2,800 […]