Research guides:
- are webpages, created at UBC by librarians, student librarians, and/or other library employees using Springshare’s LibGuides platform;
- support research by sharing important information and resources for courses, subjects, and/or research topics;
- are starting points for students and other users as they begin research in a specific course or discipline;
- are an important extension of librarians’ reference and information services, as they are accessible at all times and from anywhere, ensuring that users have more continuous research support; and,
- can act as an entry point for further contact with subject librarians.
Each guide can contain 1 or more pages, so you can think of a guide as a mini-website. In addition to pages, guides consist of boxes for content, which can include text and/or assets (links, rss feeds, videos, polls, widgets, etc.).
Hierarchy: Guide > Pages/Subpages > Content Boxes > Info you add to the content box