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cIRcle / 2014 / February / 17 / cIRcle ‘takes home gold’ in the latest Webometrics repository rankings
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cIRcle ‘takes home gold’ in the latest Webometrics repository rankings

By Kevin Ho on Feb 17, 2014

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cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository is currently ranked the number 1 repository in Canada and consistently ranks in the top 5 of Canadian repositories in “The Ranking Web of World Repositories” operated by the Cybermetrics Lab in Spain. In North America, cIRcle is ranked number 12. Internationally, cIRcle ranks number 20 out of 1660 institutional repositories and number 29 out of all world repositories numbering 1746 as of February, 2014.

With over 44,000 full-text items, cIRcle content is indexed by high-profile search engines such as Google, Yahoo! and Bing, as well as academically focused search engines and collections such as Google Scholar, OAIster and CARL making it quick and easy for scholars and others to find UBC scholarly research.

Visit cIRcle at: circle.ubc.ca to find out what types of materials can be submitted to cIRcle and more.

Did You Know?

cIRcle is a service of the UBC Library and is a key player supporting the ‘Accelerate Research’ strategic direction in the Library’s Strategic Plan which in turn is based on UBC’s core commitment to ‘Research Excellence’ as described in Place and Promise: the UBC Plan. Learn more about cIRcle at: circle.ubc.ca.

Above image is courtesy of John Hill, Wikimedia Commons

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