Testing

Zagar

This is an experiment.

Videos

(Emily, please put in this order. The url's are stable. But there is a broken link that Suzan will fix.)


How to find a journal article from a reading list
http://www.library.ubc.ca/life/olt/find_ejournals/findejournal_launcher.html


How to find a journal article (Review for the Practice Activity)
http://www.library.ubc.ca/life/olt/reading_list/find_readinglist_800_fs.htm

How to find an article for your term paper
http://www.library.ubc.ca/life/olt/find_article_nocaptions/find_topic_800_nocaptions_fs.htm

How to use eLink to find fulltext
http://www.library.ubc.ca/life/olt/find_fulltext/find_fulltext_800_fs.htm

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Learning Success

Successful learners set goals, develop strategies to achieve those goals and revise strategies when they're not working. Learning online requires you to develop some different strategies in order to keep organized and save time.

To begin with, consider the practical, instrumental aspects of learning outside of the traditional classroom. This means taking care of details, like making sure you have reliable internet service and sufficient online time, setting yourself up with CWL and library access (UBC Card), contacting your instructor early (Contacting Instructors mp3 - 142kb), familiarizing yourself with the course requirements, assignment due dates and examination processes as well as any policies with regard to the administration of the course that you should be aware of. In addition to your course outline (or course syllabus), which you should find on the course website, there are a couple of resources to assist you with this.

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Learning Success

Successful learners set goals, develop strategies to achieve those goals and revise strategies when they're not working. Learning online requires you to develop some different strategies in order to keep organized and save time.

To begin with, consider the practical, instrumental aspects of learning outside of the traditional classroom. This means taking care of details, like making sure you have reliable internet service and sufficient online time, setting yourself up with CWL and library access (VPN), contacting your instructor early (Contacting Instructors mp3 - 142kb), familiarizing yourself with the course requirements, assignment due dates and examination processes as well as any policies with regard to the administration of the course that you should be aware of. In addition to your course outline (or course syllabus), which you should find on the course website, there are a couple of resources to assist you with this.

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Getting Started


Whether you are a new learner to UBC or new to learning online, the first things you will need to take care of involve getting access. You will need the following:


Campus Wide Login (CWL account). This is your personal authentication number and your gateway to many university services and resources, including your online courses.

Internet access - if you don't have this already.

UBC Card - this card (or barcode for those who don't need a card) will offer you access to Library services. If you're not already set up with the items above, click on the topic in the Table of Contents for more information. The next step is preparing yourself for learning. Check out the Learning Success component of the Learning Online module in this orientation. We think we have included some helpful and valuable information to help you get started.

NEW TEXT
Getting Started


Whether you are a new learner to UBC or new to learning online, the first things you will need to take care of involve getting access. You will need the following:


Campus Wide Login (CWL account). This is your personal authentication number and your gateway to many university services and resources, including your online courses and UBC Library online.

Internet access - if you don't have this already.

UBC Card - this card is your official student identification.

If you're not already set up with the items above, click on the topic in the Table of Contents for more information.


The next step is preparing yourself for learning. Check out the Learning Success component of the Learning Online module in this orientation. We think we have included some helpful and valuable information to help you get started.

Library & Info Literacy

Libraries are changing. Library resources such as journals and reference books are increasing delivered online right to your desktop. How do we find our way in the maze of resources?

Information from around the world is easily available through the world wide web. But it's overwhelming. How can we find what we need? How do we know what is scholarly?

These questions form the basis of our learning objectives for this module.

The objectives for this module are for you to:

develop some personal goals in the areas of effective online searching, organizing resources and evaluating print and online resources for your own use

develop greater familiarity with some of the online orientation tools and reference desk services provided by the UBC Library

To begin this module, click on the links in Table of Contents for Library & Info Literacy to the left.

Practice Activity

Practice Activity (evaluating)

Compare these websites relating to forest practices.

http://www.weyerhaeuser.com/environment/sustainability/
http://www.forestry.gov.uk/sustainableforestry/
http://ecoforestry.ca/

What are the movitations of the site authors?

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Practice Activity (instruction)


Check out one or both of the online tutorials. Create a bookmark for the one you find most helpful and may want to return to easily. Make sure that the bookmark (or "favorite") you add is from the Welcome page - which is the page that you are directed to when clicking on the links above. This is so that you will have a reference for the login and id required for the tutorial and can easily log in from there. Trying to bookmark a WebCT site (once you are in it) will not work.


If you don't know (or don't remember) how to bookmark, review the section on Bookmarking in Technical Literacy.

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Practice Activity (finding)

Here's another article to try.


Ramos Vieira, E., Kumar, S., Coury, H., & Narayan, Y. (2006). Low back problems and possible improvements in nursing jobs. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 55 (1), 79-89.


Can you identify all the parts?

Authors:

Date of publication:

Title of article:

Tile of journal:

Volume:

Issue:

Page numbers:


Can you find the article in UBC Library Online? Any luck?



Need help? The video at the top of page How to find a journal article (Review for the Practice Activity) shows you the steps.

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Practice Activity (empowering)


NEW URL - http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/standards/standards.pdf

Assess your own level of information literacy. View the ALA's Information Literacy Competency Standards. See pages 10 to 14.

As you read through these 5 standards and related competencies and behavioral indicators - think about your own abilities and behaviors in each area and identify one or two goals for yourself related to information literacy.


Add these goals to your learning portfolio (as you may have developed in the Learning Success section of the Learning Online module). If you didn't choose to develop a portfolio, create a document called "My Goals 2007" and make a note of them there to refer to later.

Evaluating Resources

A core component of information literacy is the ability to evaluate information resources.

Resources found on the web can be particularly difficult to evaluate. This brief guide from the UBC Library will help you with this very daunting task.

Learning More ...

Try the library's Instruction Center for guides, worksheets, online tutorials.

Here's our pick of the online tutorials.

The Guided Tour - Interactive audio tutorials introducing Library resources.
This tour is helpful for all subject areas.
Try one module at a time. There are 10 in total. Each one takes less than 5 minutes.

Nursing: An Introduction to Academic Literature.
If you are in Nursing or Dental Hygiene, try the tutorial developed for you. The focus is on skills for searching. Click on Nursing: An Introduction to Academic Literature.

I want to talk to a librarian

Want to talk to a librarian?

Here's how:

Chat:
The UBC Library in conjunction with other academic libraries offers real time online help through the askaway service. Click here to start.

Email:
Just fill out this form.

Telephone:
Some popular telephone numbers for evenings and weekends:

Humanities & Social Sciences (604) 822-2725

Woodward Biomedical Library (604) 822-4440

Education Library Information Desk (604) 822-3767

MyLibrarian:
Get to know your subject librarian. Here's a list of librarians by subject. All librarians answer questions by telephone and by email. Some of us chat with MSN Messenger. And we make appointments!

Print materials for distance students

Sometimes you need journal articles or books for your research that are not available through UBC Library Online.

Extension Library to the rescue! The staff in Extension Library will see that you have all the material that you need for your work. They will mail or fax photocopies for you, mail books to you, help you with interlibrary loans.

First you need to register with Extension Library. Here's the form.

For each 3 unit course, Extension Library will mail up to 30 items to you.

You place your order using the library's document delivery system.


Is there another college or university library near you? Extension Library will help you obtain a reciprocal borrowing card so that you can borrow books directly from other libraries in Canada.

UBCcard: Official Identification

The UBCcard is the University's official student identification card. Valid for up to four years, the multi-functional UBCcard facilitates student verification, access to university residences, and access to library services. The barcode on the back of the card is your library card number.

Campus based students may obtain UBCcards from the UBC Carding Office at the new site located in the UBC Bookstore. Please visit UBC Bookstore for hours of operation.


Registered UBC students who do not come to campus (distance students) should consult the UBCcard website for additional information. Do you live outside the greater Vancouver area? Just fill out this form.

Creating a Virtual Private Network

NEWS FLASH: EZproxy is coming. You will be able to access UBC Library Online using just your CWL. This will save you time and effort.



A Virtual Private Network, affectionately called VPN, is a distance student's best friend.

Turn on the VPN and your computer thinks it is on the UBC campus.

This is an excellent way to use UBC Library Online.

No longer will journal publishers ask you for a payment to see a journal article. Instead you will find the article for free using UBC Library Online. Hurray!

Set aside a quiet time when you have about half an hour. Read through the instructions. Then give it try.

Need a bit of help? Call the ITServices Help Desk at 604-822-2008.

Thinking About Information Literacy

Information literacy refers to a set of skills developed over time to help us:

determine when we need information

find the information best suited to our needs

evaluate the information we find

communicate what we learn

A person with these skills recognizes the different levels, types and formats of information and their appropriate uses.

As we become information literate, we begin to analyse and interpret information. Information literacy develops our abilities to respond critically and creatively to problems.


In today's world, computer literacy is often encompassed in definitions of information literacy because the web, the internet, and computers are often used in the search for information.

Resources for Information Literacy

What skills are typically associated with the person who is considered "information literate"?

A posting from Stauffer Library at Queen's University helps us with this question.

Here's an important excerpt:

...we can think of information literacy as contributing towards personal empowerment and our freedom to learn. When you know how to find and apply information you can teach yourself what you need to learn and essentially you have learned ...

Do read through the discussion, then consider the practice activity below. It's challenging!

Finding

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Finding a Journal Article

Let's say that your instructor asks you to read the following journal article:

Mahoney, G., & Kaiser, A. (1999). Parent education in early intervention: A call for a renewed focus. Topics in Early Childhood Special Education,
19: 3, p. 131.

Now what?

1. Note the title of the journal - in this case it is Topics in Early Childhood Special Education
2. Go to http://www.library.ubc.ca/
3. Click on JOURNALS (on the the blue bar near the top) ; then click on Print & Electronic Journals.
4. Put the name of the journal in the box and click search
5. Click on one of the companies that sells the journal to us - in this
case you could click on Academic Search Premier
6. Go to the correct year, volume, pages
7. Click on the fulltext; in this case you can choose HTML or PDF

• Click "How to find a journal article from a reading list" helplet video at the top of the page
  
  

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Term Paper Research

Sometimes you need journal articles on a topic. This is a typical task for researching your term paper!

Start with e-RESOURCES (on the the blue bar near the top); then click on Indexes & Databases. Choose an index. Which one? Academic Search Premier is popular and covers most topics. Often your instructor will suggest an index. Or ask a librarian. Or check the subject guides.

Search for your topic by keyword. (Searching is an art -- more on this in the video.)

Try limiting your search to full text. Did you find some articles?

• Click "How to find an article for your term paper" helplet video at the top of the page.

You can also find the full text of articles by using the eLink icon.

• Click "How to use eLink to find fulltext" helplet video at the top of the page.

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Do I need a library card?

As a registered UBC student, you're entitled to a UBCcard.

The UBCcard is also your library card. The barcode on the back of the card is your library card number. The PIN is the last five digits. (Please change your PIN right away!)




The card is useful for borrowing books. Sometimes you need a book or journal article that is not available online.

UBC Library has branches in Vancouver and in Kelowna. There are many libraries on the Point Grey campus, one downtown in Robson Square, and three hospital libraries. Here's a complete list of UBC libraries.

UBC Library will mail books to distance students. Moreover UBC Library will fax or mail journal articles to you. For these services, please register with Extension Library. You'll need a library card number for this. And a bit of patience. Please start by filling out this form.