Faculty research

UBC Library Digital Initiatives creates COVID-19 web archives to document pandemic response in British Columbia

When the COVID-19 outbreak began in March 2020, UBC Library’s Digital Initiatives team started creating web archives to preserve materials relating to the COVID-19 pandemic response in British Columbia for future research. Librarians Larissa Ringham and Susan Paterson were able to move quickly to start capturing materials directly related to COVID-19. That first COVID-19 collection became […]

Open UBC Webinar series

Over the next few weeks, UBC Library is offering several webinars geared towards helping Faculty navigate and implement Open Educational Resources (OER). Are you planning a project engaging in open practices? Are you interested in learning about workflows and processes to make your open education, open data, or open science project a success? If this […]

UBC Sauder Faculty publications in 2017

Would you like to find out what UBC Sauder Faculty are publishing about? Did you know that our Sauder Faculty published over 100 papers in 2017? To access these publications, take a look at the Sauder School of Business Faculty Publications webpage on the David Lam Library website. You can search by author name, keyword, Sauder Division, […]

Commercial brewing in B.C.

Curious about commercial brewing in B.C .?  BC historian, Greg Evans, used  UBC Library’s B.C. Digital newspapers archive to research and write his two-volume history of the commercial brewing industry in British Columbia. Evans’ work involved researching the 163 newspapers currently available through the archive for mentions of beer, brewing and pivotal figures within the industry in articles […]

Survey – Help UBC Library support your venture!

Call for British Columbia participants in UBC Library entrepreneurship research habits and information needs study! Are you enrolled in an entrepreneurship course or program in BC? Launching or preparing to launch a business venture in BC? A member of a BC accelerator? Working to commercialize or translate your UBC research? If so, UBC Library invites you to […]

“Harry Potter and the academic business library”: A research poster by Irena Trebic

Congratulations to Irena Trebic, Reference Librarian, who presented her research poster “Harry Potter and the academic business library” at the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) conference in Baltimore, MD on March 23, 2017. This research poster provides a summary of a partnership between David Lam Library, Chapman Learning Commons and Rare Books and Special Collections […]

Unique method of searching SSRN.com

The Social Science Research Network (SSRN.com) disseminates scholarly papers in the social sciences and provides an abstracting service which sends out announcements of new papers, typically long before they are published. SSRN.com is a premier venue for business faculty research, and contains many working papers published at the Sauder School of Business. One database subscribed to […]