International Open Access Week: October 24-30, 2016
“As Open Access becomes a more and more familiar concept, we must focus on the small steps everyone can take to make openness in research a reality.” — Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC® (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) Recently, [i]n conjunction with this year’s Open Access Week Advisory Committee, SPARC […]
Coming soon: Copyright Education Series’ Workshops – Summer 2016
“The University of British Columbia and its faculty, staff and students are creators of various forms of intellectual property, as well as consumers of intellectual property. As creators, we rely on the protections offered by intellectual property laws to ensure that our work product is protected from improper use. As consumers of intellectual property, […]
Part II of II – NEW: TRIUMF, Canada`s sole laboratory for particle and nuclear physics in cIRcle
A step into TRIUMF’s main control room, where skilled operators control over 2,000 devices and monitor over 5,000 parameters. The control room monitors virtually all aspects of the cyclotron and the main injection beamline, including radiation levels. (Photo credit: Katy Mackenzie under this Creative Commons License) In Part II of this two-part blog post, […]
Part I of II – NEW: TRIUMF, Canada`s sole laboratory for particle and nuclear physics in cIRcle
A step into TRIUMF’s main control room, where skilled operators control over 2,000 devices and monitor over 5,000 parameters. The control room monitors virtually all aspects of the cyclotron and the main injection beamline, including radiation levels. (Photo credit: Katy Mackenzie under this Creative Commons License) In Part I of this two-part blog post, […]
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 […]