By Kevin Lindstrom on May 18, 2012
The Library has upgraded its Scifinder Scholar subscription to the Academic Unlimited Access Program. This means that you have 24/7 access to Scifinder regardless of the number of users. Regards Kevin Lindstrom Science & Engineering Reference Librarian
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By Eugene Barsky on September 20, 2011
courtesy of “Fantasy on high”.
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By Eugene Barsky on September 2, 2011
STAT 335 students will see me for a library session on Fri, 9 September, 12pm in LSK 460. Here is the library course page for this class – http://guides.library.ubc.ca/stat335
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By Eugene Barsky on March 14, 2011
The Chicago Tribune (3/14, Ford) reports that “Monday is Pi Day,” in honor of “the number that expresses the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter” and “starts with 3.14159. Thus, March 14, or 3/14, for Pi Day.” The celebration started in San Francisco in 1989 and “has spread around the world, and math [...]
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By Eugene Barsky on December 16, 2010
A very interesting read from the NYT – http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/23/science/23babylon.html?src=me&ref=general We have hundreds of books about the history of math – http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?subject=Mathematics–History. in the library, take a look…
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By Kevin Lindstrom on November 19, 2010
Putting Google to the Test in Translation An article posted in the March 9, 2010 issue of the New York Times compares how well Google Translate, Yahoo Babel Fish and Microsoft Bing Translator compare against the skills of a human translator. Google has poured resources into improving its automatic translation service. Some of these systems [...]
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By Eugene Barsky on October 26, 2010
Math grad students will see me for an 1/2 hr seminar on Thu, 28 October, 12:30pm in LSK 460. This is what I plan to cover: Mathematics Library – what can we do to save you time: This short seminar, presented by UBC Science librarian – Eugene Barsky – will focus on time saving library [...]
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By Eugene Barsky on September 29, 2010
At the ICM 2010 Opening Ceremony, the International Mathematical Union has inaugurated the server http://www.mathunion.org/ICM which provides access, free of charge, to the articles in all ICM proceedings volumes since the beginning of this series of congresses. IMU is grateful to all publishing houses that have granted the right to digitize these books. IMU particularly [...]
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By Kevin Lindstrom on September 24, 2010
Wondering why some journals are in the Web of Science database and others are not? Read the full article here The Thomson Reuters Journal Selection Process Why be selective Thomson Reuters is committed to providing comprehensive coverage of the world’s most important and influential journals to meet its subscribers’ current awareness and retrospective information retrieval [...]
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By Eugene Barsky on September 20, 2010
Katherine Miller from Woodward library and myself are offering a few RefWorks workshops for our Science and Engineering faculty, students and staff: Tuesday, September 21st, 2010 at 9:30AM – 11:30AM in Koerner 217 – http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/1087 Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010 at 10:00AM – 12:00PM in Woodward B25 – http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/1090 If you need a personal training about [...]
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