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UBC Theses and Dissertations at Library and Archives Canada
Photo courtesy: Paul Joseph / UBC Brand & Marketing It’s now easier to find UBC graduate theses and dissertations online. After years of collaboration, coverage of theses and dissertations held by cIRcle has been significantly expanded in Library and Archive Canada’s (LAC) public Theses Canada portal, which includes items from across nearly 70 Canadian universities. LAC […]
Open Access Week: Who Owns our Knowledge?
Photo courtesy: Hanne Pearce (CC BY-NC 2.0) This year’s Open Access Week theme – “Who Owns Our Knowledge?” – speaks to the rapid and significant disruption underway in the current open access landscape, requiring nuanced discussion in regards to ownership, control, permissions, and equality. Open UBC and UBC Library are offering numerous free events that […]
New in cIRcle: Mine Water Solutions (MWS) Conference
Photo used with permission of the Mine Water Solutions Conference. The fifth Mine Water Solutions (MWS) Conference was held at UBC Vancouver from June 16-18, 2025. Co-organized by the Bradshaw Research Initiative for Minerals and Mining (BRIMM) and C3 Alliance, this international technical conference brings together experts in the field of mining and water management […]
Theses and Dissertations : Open Access and Embargo Considerations
Photo courtesy: UBC Brand & Marketing All UBC graduate students are required to submit their thesis or dissertation to cIRcle, UBC Library’s open access digital repository. But what does open access mean, and what are the implications and impacts to your research in the short and long term? And is there an option to request a […]
Inclusive Metadata: Legacy Subject Keywords in Theses & Dissertations at cIRcle
Courtesy: UBC Library Communications & Marketing Note: Part of this post was drafted by Sasha Han in 2022, a UBC School of Information graduate student and cIRcle’s Digital Repository Research Assistant at the time. It was integrated into this post to reflect ongoing progress and outcomes of the project. The UBC Equity & Inclusion Office […]