Celebrate Open UBC 2012
Open UBC is held in conjunction with the International Open Access Week, which encourages the academic community to come together to share and learn about open scholarship initiatives locally and worldwide. Two days of diverse events will highlight areas of open scholarship that UBC’s researchers, faculty, students and staff will participate in as well as […]
GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award winners
With much anticipated excitement since its launch in July 2012, the new GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award was presented to the inaugural winners on October 18 by the GSS Council. The GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award ‘aims are to feature UBC as a leader in the open dissemination of exemplary non-thesis graduate coursework; and to […]
Innovative Dissemination of Research Award
Who will be the next Innovative Dissemination of Research Award winner for 2013? Nominations are now open and the application deadline is on Monday, November 26, 2012 by 5pm. In its third year, this award (established by the UBC Library in 2010) focuses on new and innovative ways of communicating and disseminating knowledge. It honours […]
Now available in cIRcle: WCILCOS conference papers
The WCILCOS (World Confederation of Institutes and Libraries in Chinese Overseas Studies) is a federation established by participating institutes and libraries in a Chinese Overseas Studies conference in Athens, Ohio, in 2000, to facilitate co-operation between scholarship and documentation, and between institutes, libraries, and archives in different parts of the world. Registered in Ohio, it […]
Thesis, Citation Format, FIREtalks and more
If you have visited the Walter C. Koerner Library recently, you probably saw the new Research Commons Desk (on Level 2); not to mention, the graduate student staff in action. How so? The Research Commons offers a variety of services but two key services stand out, especially for graduate students in the Humanities and Social […]