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The cIRcle team is happy to announce the release of our 2024-2025 Impact and Activity Report! Read on to learn more about some of our achievements and projects from the past year.
New year, new milestones!
cIRcle’s collection now holds over 86,000 items from UBC’s global community, with more than 3,500 items deposited in the last year. Students continue to be our biggest contributing group – since 2022-2023, undergraduate submissions to cIRcle have increased by 75%.
What’s new in cIRcle?
Each year as we develop new and continuing partnerships with the UBC community, we celebrate the addition of unique material such as the Kaska Language Learning Resources, including flashcards, audio recordings, and instructional materials from the Kaska Cards App and the Kaska Language Website.
cIRcle continues to support the open access sharing and preservation of research materials created by UBC faculty, students, and our larger community of scholarship. Our collection of alternative research outputs grew this year with the addition of the Thinking Climate Change podcast series by Dr. Katherine Bowers and two podcasts produced by students in Dr. Susan Frohlick’s undergraduate course ‘Travel, Migration, and the Politics of Mobility’.
Behind the scenes at cIRcle
As we continue preparations for migration to DSpace 7, the open repository software used by thousands of academic institutions, our team has continued to improve the discovery & use of cIRcle’s collections.
The Theses and Dissertations in cIRcle : Discovery and Use guide offers some tips & tricks on how to successfully search for theses in cIRcle. Beyond cIRcle, more than 56,000 of UBC’s theses and dissertations can now be found via Library & Archives Canada’s Theses Canada portal, which brings together theses and dissertations from universities across the country.
Our cIRcle Blog regularly highlights new items, events, and projects going on at cIRcle and across the UBC community. Read about self-archiving policies, the Paper Pledge for the Planet, and more!