cIRcle News

On your mark, get set for Open UBC

Open Access Week @ UBC 2011 will be happening at UBC on October 24-30, 2011! Open UBC is held in conjunction with International Open Access Week, which encourages the academic community to come together to share and learn about open scholarship initiatives locally and worldwide. Open UBC showcases a week of diverse events highlighting areas […]

Just arrived in cIRcle: Wash With Care Project

One of the honourable mention submissions for the UBC Library’s 2011 Innovative Dissemination of Research Award competition is now available in cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository! Some quick facts about this community-based collaborative research project include: Raises awareness about pesticide safety in BC’s Lower Mainland farming communities Demonstrates how to safely launder pesticide-contaminated clothing via Public […]

Opening Mine Reclamation Information to the World

In case you missed it, Eugene Barsky won the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE, Engineering Libraries Division) Award last week. The certificate will be awarded in June at the ASEE Conference and Exposition. As one of the Science & Engineering Librarians at UBC Library, Eugene spearheaded the collaboration between UBC Library and the British […]

A UBC Retrospective Theses Digitization Project update

Recently, Chris Hives (University Archivist at the University of British Columbia) was “pleased to report that the Retrospective Theses collection in cIRcle [UBC’s Digital Repository] now includes full text copies of essentially all theses written at UBC between 1973 and 2007. This represents over 25,500 titles and approximately 4.24 million digitized pages.” As the final […]

Atlas of British Columbia: people, environment, and resource use

In 1956, the first resources atlas of British Columbia was published by the British Columbia Natural Resources Conference. It was a remarkable achievement, representing the combined effort of the many people in industry, university, and government who comprised the conference. As a source of information about British Columbia, it was an outstanding reference and was […]