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Open Collections: 300,000 items, and still growing!
UBC Library’s digital collections recently marked a major milestone: more than 300,000 items are now openly available to the UBC community & beyond via Open Collections! Open Collections is a discovery platform that brings together locally created and managed digital resources from UBC Library, including cIRcle, the Digitization Centre, Research Data Management, Archives, and Rare Books and Special Collections. […]
Get started with cIRcle: Green Open Access
Photo by Erik Mclean on Unsplash Have you recently published a paper, or are you planning to submit a manuscript for publication in a peer-reviewed journal? Many publishers allow authors to deposit a version of work into their institution’s repository. Green open access, or self-archiving in an institutional repository like cIRcle, provides authors with an […]
Explore cIRcle: Open Educational Resources (OER)
Integral Calculus with Applications to Life Sciences by Tsopméné, Paul, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Queer Geography Dictionary by Sloan Morgan, Onyx and Nassim Zand Dizari, CC BY-NC 4.0. Open educational resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that are freely available for others to use, adapt, and share. UBC has an ongoing commitment to OER as […]
New in cIRcle: “Coming Home : curation, exhibition and research-creation as reclamation and truth-telling”
Photo from: James, Margaretta. 2025. Coming Home : curation, exhibition and research-creation as reclamation and truth-telling (Page 9). Elder Margaretta James’ thesis, Coming Home : curation, exhibition and research-creation as reclamation and truth-telling is available in cIRcle. In this thesis, James explores her personal and family history as paths to understanding and interrogating colonization, […]
Student submissions to cIRcle: What, why, and how?
Photo courtesy UBC Library Communications and Marketing As UBC’s institutional repository, cIRcle supports all current UBC students seeking to make their research and course outputs openly accessible online. Our student collections grow each semester, with more than 2,000 non-thesis graduate level publications and nearly 3,000 undergraduate works currently available in Open Collections. Read on to find out more about […]