Kevin Ho
Innovative Dissemination of Research Award
Who will be the next Innovative Dissemination of Research Award winner for 2013? Nominations are now open and the application deadline is on Monday, November 26, 2012 by 5pm. In its third year, this award (established by the UBC Library in 2010) focuses on new and innovative ways of communicating and disseminating knowledge. It honours […]
Now available in cIRcle: WCILCOS conference papers
The WCILCOS (World Confederation of Institutes and Libraries in Chinese Overseas Studies) is a federation established by participating institutes and libraries in a Chinese Overseas Studies conference in Athens, Ohio, in 2000, to facilitate co-operation between scholarship and documentation, and between institutes, libraries, and archives in different parts of the world. Registered in Ohio, it […]
Thesis, Citation Format, FIREtalks and more
If you have visited the Walter C. Koerner Library recently, you probably saw the new Research Commons Desk (on Level 2); not to mention, the graduate student staff in action. How so? The Research Commons offers a variety of services but two key services stand out, especially for graduate students in the Humanities and Social […]
cIRcle is ranked as the number 1 repository in Canada
Since the webometrics’ (the Ranking Web of Repositories) university and institutional repository (IR) rankings back in April 2010, cIRcle has continued to be a growing force in the Open Access movement among its national and international contemporaries. It boasts over 41,000 full-text items, indexed by Google, Google Scholar and other web search engines and is […]
New GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award is here at UBC
Have you heard the buzz about the new GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award launched on July 9, 2012 at UBC Vancouver? The GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award represents a joint collaborative of the UBC Vancouver Graduate Student Society and cIRcle / UBC Library. Its purpose is twofold: firstly, to feature UBC as a leader in […]