Open Scholar Award countdown for September 2013
The cIRcle GSS Open Scholar Award countdown to the next deadline is well underway for all UBC Vancouver graduate students. This Award aims to feature UBC as a leader in the open dissemination of graduate student work while creating an incentive for graduate students to populate cIRcle with material beyond theses and dissertations. Examples of […]
Delving into Open UBC, Open Access and much more
UBC “supports scholarly pursuits that contribute to knowledge and understanding within and across disciplines, and seeks every opportunity to share them broadly.” – From UBC’s Place and Promise Wondering why it’s good to use open resources and why they’re helpful to you and others when sharing or creating open resources? Learn more through the Open […]
Just arrived – Influence of Discovery search tools on SciEng e-books usage
“E-books are becoming an increasingly important part of academic library collections. According to a 2011 report from the American Library Association,1 e-books currently represent 27% of holdings in academic libraries and the numbers have been steadily increasing for years.2Despite this growing importance, providing catalogue access to e-books has always been a challenge for libraries. Traditional […]