cIRcle is ranked as the number 1 repository in Canada
Since the webometrics’ (the Ranking Web of Repositories) university and institutional repository (IR) rankings back in April 2010, cIRcle has continued to be a growing force in the Open Access movement among its national and international contemporaries. It boasts over 41,000 full-text items, indexed by Google, Google Scholar and other web search engines and is […]
New GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award is here at UBC
Have you heard the buzz about the new GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award launched on July 9, 2012 at UBC Vancouver? The GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award represents a joint collaborative of the UBC Vancouver Graduate Student Society and cIRcle / UBC Library. Its purpose is twofold: firstly, to feature UBC as a leader in […]
Newly added audio-visual materials for Nooksack place names book
Audio-visual materials that accompany the book ‘Nooksack Place Names: Geography, Culture, Language’, by Allan Richardson and Brent Galloway have been made available in cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository. The audio-visual materials are available in cIRcle at: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/34111. These unique materials “provide an elder’s recorded pronunciations of all the places named and several hundred colour images, and […]
New academic year, new UBC Library service changes afoot
In case you missed it, this September marks some new and exciting changes happening with a few UBC Library services and redesigned spaces for UBC students, faculty and the community. While some services changes are already in effect (or getting underway) at the Walter C. Koerner Library as mentioned in an earlier cIRcle blog post, […]