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WANTED: Your GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award submissions
Next GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award winner could be YOU! Currently registered as a UBC Vancouver graduate student? Completed at least one (or more) exemplary non-thesis graduate manuscript(s) or project(s)? Faculty or course instructors encouraging you to showcase your non-thesis graduate work to community partners and industry leaders? If you answered “Yes” to any (or […]
International Open Access Week 2015: Open for Collaboration
This year’s theme, “Open for Collaboration”, set by SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) for its 8th International Open Access Week will be held on October 19-25, 2015. “The energy that’s generated when smart, committed people work together on issues they care deeply about is palpable,” said Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC. […]
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. […]