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Celebrate your data in 2024’s Love Data Week! Scheduled for the week of Valentine’s Day, this year’s theme is “my kind of data.” It’s celebration of data in all its forms. Don’t just be the data, love the data! This year’s Love Data Week is joint effort from the libraries at Simon Fraser University, the […]
Love Data Week is an international celebration of all things data, scheduled annually in the week of Valentine’s Day. Its aim is to engage community and increase awareness with events that highlight the prominence, value, and appropriate handling of data in our lives and research. International Love Data Week events are promoted by the Inter-university […]
The Digital Scholarship Lab in the Research Commons is fully equipped with popular paid software commonly used in coursework and research. Paid software such as R, Adobe Creative Cloud Suite, SPSS, NVivo and many more are available at Koerner Library for UBC students and researchers to use for free.
Graduate students and faculty can book rooms in the UBC Library Research Commons space to study or work on group projects in a private space. Click here to make a room booking.
Located on the 4th and 5th floors of Koerner Library, the Research Commons offers consultations, workshops, and collaborative spaces for studying, research projects, and hosting presentations. There are open communal spaces for all to study, and private bookable rooms available to graduate students and faculty. The Research Commons also includes a Digital Scholarship Computer Lab, and provides expertise on Data Analysis, Citation Management, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and more. We are a community space that embraces both new and traditional exploratory scholarship and provides access to services and expertise for the advancement of research.