Inclusive Metadata: Legacy Subject Keywords in Theses & Dissertations at cIRcle
Courtesy: UBC Library Communications & Marketing Note: Part of this post was drafted by Sasha Han in 2022, a UBC School of Information graduate student and cIRcle’s Digital Repository Research Assistant at the time. It was integrated into this post to reflect ongoing progress and outcomes of the project. The UBC Equity & Inclusion Office […]
Essential Tips for UBC Thesis or Dissertation Submission
Photo courtesy: UBC Brand & Marketing All UBC graduate students are required to submit their thesis or dissertation to cIRcle, UBC Library’s openly available digital repository, which currently holds more than 51,000 UBC theses and dissertations dating back to 1919. If you’re a graduate student ready to submit your thesis or dissertation, we’ve outlined key […]
cIRcle Impact & Activity Report 2022-2023
Photo courtesy: UBC Brand & Marketing We’ve reached 80,000 items! The cIRcle team is happy to announce the release of our 2022-2023 Impact and Activity Report! 2022-2023 was a busy year for the cIRcle team as we continued to evolve and refine our services to meet growing demands for open dissemination of diverse scholarly […]
Supplementary No More: Merging Thesis Files and the End of an Era
Photo courtesy: Martin Dee / UBC Brand & Marketing As UBC’s institutional repository, cIRcle houses the published and unpublished intellectual outputs from the UBC community. Currently, more than 51,000 theses and dissertations are archived in cIRcle in our UBC Theses and Dissertations collection, with the oldest dating back to 1919. While pre-internet theses and […]
What’s in a Name? Author name management in cIRcle
Brown Wooden Drawer by Jan Antonin Kolar As UBC’s institutional repository, cIRcle’s mandate is to preserve and promote published and unpublished research from the UBC community. Faculty research is an important part of this; cIRcle currently has more than 8,800 items in its UBC Faculty and Research Publications collection, with over 42,000 author names […]