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 2, 2011
Sally Taylor and myself will present a library session for the new graduate students in Forestry and Wood Science on Mon, 12 September, 1:30pm – 3:00pm Here are the research guides for Wood Science and Forestry
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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
The New York Times (10/23, Rudolph) “Green” blog reported that this week “select members of the United States Green Building Council will begin casting ballots on whether to overhaul how the organization awards sustainability credits for wood products.” Currently, “only wood certified by the Forest Stewardship Council qualifies for so-called LEED credits.” If the new [...]
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By Eugene Barsky on October 7, 2010
WOOD 280 students with Simon Ellis will see me on Fri, 15 October, at 10am in CAWP 2942 for a 1/2 hr library session. Please see the library course page here – http://toby.library.ubc.ca/ereserve/er-coursepage.cfm?id=2435
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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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By Eugene Barsky on September 14, 2010
Wood Science incoming graduate students will see me for two hours tomorrow – Wed, 15 September, 1pm – 3pm in Forestry 1406 to cover the major wood science databases, citation software and anything about the academic libraries. This session will be presented with my dear colleague – Katherine Miller from Woodward library. ** photo by [...]
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By Eugene Barsky on March 9, 2010
It is a very good news to us in the Science and Engineering library to hear that Richard Kerekes is to receive the 2010 TAPPI Gunnar Nicholson Gold Medal Award. From the UBC Applied Science press release: The award recognizes an individual who has created a pre-eminent scientific and engineering achievement that has proven of [...]
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By Eugene Barsky on February 17, 2010
Students and staff in UBC’s Centre for Advanced Wood Processing (CAWP) were given the task of creating all 23 Olympic and Paralympic wooden medal podia and the 100 wooden medal trays for the 2010 Winter Games. And yes, they delivered – http://www.cawp.ubc.ca/Whatwedo/CAWPProjects/tabid/3546/Default.aspx ** photo by http://www.flickr.com/photos/tgillin/
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