Graduate Students

Access & Borrowing

Connect to Library Resources

As a UBC student, you have full access to the wide range of print and electronic collections through the Library from off-campus, as well as in person. To get instant access to online Journals, Indexes & Databases, and other Library licensed resources from off-campus locations, see Connect to Library Resources.

Library Cards

• Your UBCcard is your Library card.
• You can also apply for Reciprocal Borrowing privileges at many other Canadian and U.S. post-secondary institutions.

Borrower Services

• Log into your account to:
  • change your PIN
  • renew items
  • pay your fines online
  • set up email reminders for item due dates

• Borrowing between UBC Campuses (Document Delivery )
• Borrowing from non-UBC Libraries (Interlibrary Loan)
• Disabillity Access (Information & services for people with disabilities)
• Access Course Reserves

Researching

Contact a Librarian

• Chat with a Librarian
• Subject/Liaison Librarians
• Suggest a Book or Other Material

Research Guides

• Research Guides: Need articles for a project and don’t know where to start? Search our subject-specific guides for help with your research.
• Primary Sources
• Government Publications
• Newspapers and News Sources

Search Tools

• Search Summon by Keyword
• Indexes & Databases and Articles
• Open Collections
• cIRcle (UBC's institutional repository)
  • contains most of the theses & dissertations produced by UBC students since 1919
• WorldCat (searches 10000+ Library catalogues)

Citing & Bibliographies

• How to Cite
• Thesis Formatting Workshops
• Citation Management

Copyright

Copyrighted materials are everywhere—you produce them and you use them every day. Be responsible in your research and studies: know what you can and can’t do under copyright law. Infringing copyright is a serious matter. Find information about copyright, UBC’s requirements and more at Copyright at UBC.

Writing

Your Thesis/Dissertation

• Copyright at UBC: contains links to information about copyright law in Canada, resource guides, an FAQ and much more. Of particular interest:
  • Image Sources
  • Image Citation

• The Graduate Thesis: your guide to find UBC's Faculty of Graduate Studies requirements for your thesis proposal, as well as research ethics and planning and defending your thesis. Of particular interest:
  • Dissertation & Thesis Preparation: contains links to format requirements, a sample thesis and how to include published material in your work.

• cIRcle: UBC’s digital repository for research and teaching materials created by the UBC community, openly accessible to anyone on the web. This is where you will ultimately submit your final thesis/dissertation.
  • See the Final Dissertation & Thesis Submission for more information.

• Centre for Writing and Scholarly Communication (Vancouver campus): supports graduate-level writing. Join the writing community to work on your projects every week with the support of your peers or book an appointment to see a graduate writing consultant.

• Centre for Scholarly Communication (Okanagan campus): provides workshops and one-on-one consultations about all aspects of scholarly communication, including writing support for theses, dissertations, journal articles, grant proposals, and conference presentations, as well as copyright, open access, and author rights.

Looking for theses?

• Theses & Dissertations: UBC, Canadian, North American and international theses.

Your Research Data

• Research Data Management: website developed and maintained by UBC Library that provides valuable information and resources related to UBC's Research Data management strategy. If you are producing, reusing or interested in preserving and sharing your research data, please visit the site.

Beyond the Thesis/Dissertation

• Creating & Managing an Academic Profile: guide to the skills and tools you need for discussing, interacting, presenting, writing, commenting, and finally publishing your research.

• Citation Metrics Workshop: explains how to use citation analysis tools to measure the impact of articles, books, journals and individual researchers.

• Scholarly Communications @ UBC: UBC's information portal for those interested and/or involved in scholarly authorship and publication.