By madgett on February 28, 2013
Here is a preview of In Iran, an ebook that Adam Jones, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia in Kelowna, has made available to the UBC community. In Iran is protected by copyright, but “All photos linked in the text are published under a Creative Commons 3.0 license.” We […]
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By madgett on February 25, 2013
“Grad student Baillie Redfern won a competition run by PhD Comics to have her three-minute research presentation (Engineering the Perfect Perfume) transformed into an animated video.” –TREK Online, Feb. 13, 2013 …and the result is very cool. Take five (well, only two and a bit) and watch “Whale Barf and Perfume“.
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By madgett on February 21, 2013
How would you like to be able to search a news archive for all the major news networks (and some smaller ones) at once? Now you can. Try out the Internet Archive TV News. Streaming Video (or, it says, you can “borrow” via DVD, but I haven’t explored that) results for keyword searches. It was […]
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By madgett on February 21, 2013
When looking up an ejournal title in our ejournal Portal (the ejournal A-Z list), you may have seen a result that included a link looking something like: Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek – Frei zugängliche E-Journals Note: Only select articles are freely accessible. …and been confused as to what it meant (unless you can read German). To clear […]
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By madgett on February 8, 2013
Came across this… “The Little Cree Books below are the first in what we hope will become a large collection of online books designed for early Cree readers. Please check out the About the Project section of this website to learn more…” —Little Cree Books maskosis okîsikâm (Little Bear’s Day) askiw meskocipayowina (The Seasons) Note: […]
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