New Tri-Agency Open Access Policy for Research at UBC
Canadians will have free online access to research funded by NSERC, SSHRC and CIHR – The Honourable Ed Holder, Minister of State (Science and Technology) In case you missed it, the newly harmonized Tri-Agency Open Access Policy arrived on February 27, 2015. The policy consists of Canada’s three federal granting agencies — the Canadian Institutes […]
cIRcle keeps its top ranking as the number 1 repository in Canada
An aerial view of the UBC Point Grey campus. Photo credit: Russ Heinl The University of British Columbia’s open access digital repository, cIRcle, is currently ranked the number 1 repository in Canada! Consistently ranked in the top 5 of Canadian repositories in “The Ranking Web of World Repositories” list operated by the Cybermetrics Lab in […]
In the Spotlight: UBC faculty open up access to scholarly research via cIRcle
The University of British Columbia (UBC) consistently achieves a high ranking among the 40 best universities globally and places among the top 20 public universities in the world. [http://www.ubc.ca/about/our-place.html] With 5,130 faculty at UBC, it is no wonder it attracts some of the best and brightest to its two campuses in Vancouver and in Kelowna. […]
Coming soon: UBC’s annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition
In just three minutes, current graduate students explain the “breadth and significance of their research project to a non-specialist audience”, according to 3MT organizers. In fact, did you know that UBC was one of the first universities in North America to host a 3MT competition? This annual competition starts off with heats from all over […]
Latest GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award winners
Meet Saule Chikeyeva and Catherine Haney – the latest winners of the 2014 GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award! Saule Chikeyeva comes from the UBC Department of Educational Studies and won this Award for the work, “Policy Analysis of the Per Capita Funding of Public Schools in Kazakhstan” at: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/50452. Chikeyeva sets out “to better understand […]