cIRcle staff
cIRcle Impact & Activity Report 2020-2021
The cIRcle team is happy to announce the release of our 2020-2021 Impact and Activity Report! 2020-2021 was a year of unexpected challenges and new opportunities that highlighted the importance of open access to research. Early this Spring, cIRcle celebrated passing the 74,000 open access item mark and attracted nearly 1.5 million visits via […]
cIRcle Impact & Activity Report 2019-2020
We are excited to share cIRcle’s Impact and Activity Report for 2019-2020! 2019-2020 was a year of milestones for cIRcle, UBC’s Research Repository. Early this spring, cIRcle celebrated passing the 70,000 open access item mark. This year also saw more than one million visitors to cIRcle content via the UBC Open Collections site. cIRcle […]
Year in Review – Special edition: Celebrating over a decade of cIRcle milestones
Photo courtesy: Pixabay Emerging as a two-year pilot project in 2007/8 under the auspices of the University of British Columbia’s Library, cIRcle began and remains the University’s digital repository for scholarly research and teaching materials created by the UBC community, its partners and affiliates. Ranking highly among its North American peers and […]
Hallmarking the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) at UBC through collaborative partnerships
Did you know that, in 1998, the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) was founded by John Willinsky in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia (UBC)? Its aim was and still is today to “improv[e] the scholarly and public quality of research”. UBC “support[s] scholarly pursuits that contribute to knowledge and […]
New Syllabus Service for faculty and students is available at UBC
Introduced as a new service to help UBC Vancouver faculty meet Canadian copyright law and Fair Dealing Requirements, the syllabus service provides them with the ability to upload their course readings/syllabi directly into the Library Online Course Reserves system (LOCR), part of the Canvas Learning Management Platform at UBC. It ensures that course […]