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This learning hub was compiled for the use of students, teachers, academics, and engaged advocates wanting to take action in the face of climate change and ecosystem disruption. The goal of this work is to outline the realities of climate change in rural Canada, specifically in reference to health and...→

What happens when people from different cultural backgrounds try to communicate using digital technologies? This review offers a roadmap and thematic analysis of literature we compiled from 2003-2023. In it, we consider what research is telling us about whether digital communication technologies represent new opportunities, new threats, or both, for...→

This resource is meant to provide advice and resources for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) instructors on how to ‘get started’ when working to incorporate Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing into their curriculum and practices as a means to create safer learning environments for Indigenous students. It...→

NERDCAT was designed to help clinicians make sense of clinical research and has two core components: (1)The NERDCAT appraisal checklists, which facilitate the systematic appraisal of clinical studies; and (2) detailed guidance on how to address the NERDCAT appraisal checklist questions, along with rationales, supporting empiric evidence where available, and...→

This multimedia resource provides the science behind the disease that a health care professional is managing and an explanation of the signs and symptoms a patient is experiencing, starting at the tissue level.  Each disease begins with a review of normal anatomy, histology and physiology - followed by the changes...→

A manual covering the basics of treating common skin conditions in children, adolescents, and adults. This manual is meant to accompany rotation or a course in pediatric dermatology.→

As of March 2025, we have moved this resource to a new home: https://sites.google.com/view/rxpidresources with new features including quizzes, peer-reviewed content, and more!--Rxpid Resources is a tool for pharmacy students to access relevant resources related to specific conditions in an effective and timely manner. This resource has been organized by...→

This case study explores the ways in which wildfire events impact individual health and livelihood from a micro, meso, and macro level. The case study walks the learner through an introduction to how climate change further exacerbates wildfire occurrence, alongside the myriad health impacts that stem from wildfire smoke exposure.→

This educational resource accompanies But I live: Three stories of child survivors of the Holocaust (ed. C. Schallié).→

Reconciliation+design is a set of adaptable resources developed to enable Engineering faculty to include Indigenous reconciliation in engineering courses.→

Digging Deeper into Pressbooks is a resource containing appearance tips and technical solutions when using Pressbooks. At times when using the Pressbooks themes there may be particular visual elements that are not meeting the needs of the text. This resource is a space where UBC Library adds solutions to issues...→

Digital Meijis: Re-visualising Modern Japanese History at 150 is a curated and edited collection on the Meiji Period. By pairing digitized materials and documents with historical narrative and interpretive analysis, the “visual essays” contained within encourage readers to review and rethink modern Japanese history through images.→

This edited collection bridges the gap between research in academic integrity and classroom practice by offering: Discipline specific perspectives; Theoretical concepts articulated for undergraduate readership; and Learning tips, activities and discussion items to facilitate instruction on academic integrity.→

In the ever-evolving field of ecological modelling, “Ecosystem modelling with EwE" stands out as a seminal text, essential for students, researchers, and professionals keen on mastering ecosystem-based management tools. This comprehensive textbook delves deep into the what and why of the Ecopath with Ecosim (EwE) software suite – a powerful...→

When it comes to climate change, studies have shown that youth are more likely to report mental health concerns in comparison to older generations. Emerging research underlines that youth who enroll in environmental classes consistently report increased levels of stress as a result of their heightened awareness of planetary health...→

The goal of this textbook is to introduce you to the foundational topics of chemical engineering. This textbook will give you a good basic understanding of a number of chemical engineering concepts, which you can take with you as you progress in your engineering degree and career.→

The Ainu are the Indigenous Peoples of Japan who have traditionally lived in the northern island of Hokkaido, the north part of Honshu, and several islands and territories north of Hokkaido in what is now known as Russia. This online textbook aims to introduce (or deepen knowledge of) the Ainu...→

This open access book has been specifically adapted for CHEM 250, an interdisciplinary inorganic chemistry course at UBC-V, for Chemical Engineering students. The main objective of this book is to introduce students to the basic principles of inorganic chemistry and link them with current applications relevant to a chemical engineer....→

The book is most suitable for a one-term, introductory engineering thermodynamics course at the undergraduate level. It may also be used for self-learning of fundamental concepts of classical thermodynamics.→

This lab manual is a cross-institutional project from British Columbia (BC), Canada that provides 24 labs to be implemented within first year post-secondary physical geography courses. The labs have been developed to be easily adapted for various course structures, durations, and differing laboratory learning objectives set out by instructors. Instructor...→

Reading books is a great way to learn a language. It helps to discover the culture, to learn new words, to be exposed to different language structures in the context. But, one of the biggest challenges in the language and literature classes is to encourage the students to read. This...→

Mythoi Koinoi: An Online, Open-Access Anthology of Greek and Roman Myth provides undergraduate university students with free, easy access to primary source texts and images for Greek and Roman mythology. Mythoi Koinoi means "Mythology for the People" in Ancient Greek, and it is intended to give everyone access to the...→

This collection of essays is developed by students in CSIS 450 - Topics in Critical Studies in Sexuality: “Drag Around the World." This course uses different frameworks and lenses to look at performances that defy gender normativity in different parts of the globe.→

This open-access textbook is for those who want to write exemplary social research. It provides an extensive outline of each step of the research process: outlining practical tools for conceptualizing its beginnings, generating proposals, getting ethics approval, relaxing from the stresses of research, writing academically, conducting a literature review, drafting...→

Helping students organize their thinking about social psychology at a conceptual level. UBC Psych 308A adaptations include removing the section on leadership, condensing and merging the chapters on competition and cooperation into the chapter on working groups. Numerous key vocabulary terms (along with their accompanying sections) were removed.→

Rock the Boat is an open-access multimedia resource designed to provoke dialogue about graduate supervision relationships within universities, and their impact on student and faculty wellbeing. Drawing upon the tradition of Research-based Theatre, Rock the Boat draws attention to graduate supervision as a vital form of pedagogy, and as rife...→

This is a collection of primary sources on Roman games and spectacles in their various forms, created for a second-year undergraduate class on spectacles in Greece and Rome at the University of British Columbia. This book is intended for use in upper-level academic studies. Content Warning: The content of this...→

This collection of three illustrated storybooks shares wit, wisdom, and insight about living well with dementia. Co-created by researchers, artists, and care partners, the stories follow three fictional characters, Daniel, Inez, and Mac, as they navigate their dementia journeys with resilience and agency. Weaving together joy and sadness, courage and...→

This resource was developed to support student groups at the University of British Columbia, and beyond, in developing, administrating, and offering events, activities, and programming to advocate for open educational (OE) practices on campus.→

Laws of Settlement revives, updates and refreshes the ’54 Laws of Settlements’ outlined in Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis’ seminal book Ekistics: An Introduction to the Science of Human Settlements, making them relevant to the problems we face in the 21st century.→

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The primer explores how open copyright licenses, collaborative practices, and networked technologies have the potential to lower barriers to knowledge by making the processes and products of scholarship more distributed, transparent, and accessible. The text offers a content on the full spectrum of open scholarly activities including, open access, open...→

This collection of essays is developed by students in CSIS 301 - Intro to Trans Studies. The course introduces students to the field of Trans* Studies through various conceptual and theoretical frameworks.→

Import this book into your Pressbook to get templates for commonly used front and back matter pages such as Licensing Info, How to Use This Book, Acknowledgements, Glossary, and Versioning History. This book can also be used as an outline, demonstrating an effective way of structuring your Pressbook.→

The UBC Library has created an Open Text Publishing Guide to help authors navigate the process of creating a text. If you are in the middle of creating your own open text or are about to embark upon one, this guide will walk you through what the project entails. We...→

UnRoman Romans is a reader on socially stigmatized groups in ancient Rome: actors athletes, dancers, sex workers, and sexual non-conformists. This reader was created as part of a class and uses student-scholars who contributed parts of the reader as a course assignment. It contains out of copyright and original translations...→

An introduction to using LaTeX in Pressbooks including an introduction to the program and worked tutorials on creating equations, plots, and multi-lingual documents.→

An accessible and inclusive scholarly writing textbook that empowers students to contribute to scholarly conversations in their disciplines and asks them to consider how their contributions can be shared with the communities beyond the university. Examples are specific to Land & Food Systems and Forestry. →