Kevin Ho
Latest LibFOCUS Oct 2013 issue highlights open access at UBC
With this year marking the 5th annual Open Access Week event series at the University of British Columbia, it is exciting to see highlights of the upcoming Open UBC 2013 programming schedule. If you haven’t yet registered for any Open UBC event sessions held in conjunction with UBC’s Celebrate Learning Week (Oct. 20-26), there is […]
Open UBC 2013 countdown starts today: Day 10
This year marks the 5th annual Open Access Week event series at the University of British Columbia. Don’t miss out on this celebration. Join us on Oct. 22-23 in the Dodson Room of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Open UBC “encourages the academic community to come together to share and learn about open scholarship […]
New to cIRcle: UBC nursing student journal – the Sept 2013 issue
With the fall semester in full swing, it is a pleasure to announce that the second issue of the University of British Columbia nursing student journal (UBC-NSJ) is available in cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository! As stated by the UBC-NSJ’s editor-in-chief, Jae-Yung Kwon, this year targets the “[b]uilding on the success of our first edition” […]
Open Scholar Award countdown for September 2013
The cIRcle GSS Open Scholar Award countdown to the next deadline is well underway for all UBC Vancouver graduate students. This Award aims to feature UBC as a leader in the open dissemination of graduate student work while creating an incentive for graduate students to populate cIRcle with material beyond theses and dissertations. Examples of […]
UBC is suspending classes on September 18 for TRC event
On September 18, the University of British Columbia will suspend its classes to enable the students and faculty and its UBC community members to participate in an historic national event – The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC). The TRC was established in 2008 to gather testimony on survivors’ experiences of the Indian Residential […]