In The Spotlight: BIRS, Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery
The Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery (BIRS) 1 is “a joint Canada-US-Mexico initiative that seeks to bring together people from a wide range of mathematical, scientific and industry backgrounds and to create a forum for the exchange of knowledge and methods between these specialists”. The future home of the newest BIRS-affiliated […]
Just how “open” is open
Searching for a tool that can help you and/or your UBC research colleagues identify which journals are really open access? Check out the “Open Access Spectrum (OAS) Evaluation Tool” from SPARC at: http://sparcopen.org/our-work/oas-evaluation-tool/ Learn how this OAS tool helps in the following ways: Provides critical information to authors, libraries, research funders, […]
In the Spotlight: Screens in Vancouver: Cinemagoing and the City in 1914
The goal of this Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) funded project (grant number 430-2011-006) was to ‘advance the grant holders’ knowledge of the character of film exhibition in the early part of the 20th century in Vancouver, with a specific focus on 1914 as a case study’. According to Dr. Brian McIlroy at […]
SPARC-Social Sciences and Humanities at UBC – Spring 2016
Are you part of a UBC academic unit or research network? Want to learn about grant research funding opportunities in your area? Need to deposit, share/disseminate and preserve your grant-funded research output at UBC? SPARC is pleased to share its upcoming Spring 2016 events and activities with UBC affiliated research institutes, centres and other organizations […]
Call for Submissions: GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award
Launched in 2012, the GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award is a lottery-style $500 Award which showcases unique, exemplary non-thesis graduate work at UBC that is not captured anywhere else. This Award enables UBC Vancouver graduate students to expand and disseminate their research-focused, non-thesis work at UBC and beyond. The non-thesis graduate student work is vetted […]