By cIRcle staff on Dec 06, 2021
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As UBC’s research repository, cIRcle hosts all UBC theses and dissertations.
Any UBC Vancouver Graduate students who are preparing to submit their thesis or dissertation to cIRcle should refer to the Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Office’s Final Submission Instructions prior to starting a cIRcle submission to ensure all steps are followed and to avoid any delays in processing. All questions related to UBC Vancouver theses or dissertations should be directed to Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies at graduate.thesis@ubc.ca.
UBC Okanagan Graduate students should refer to the College of Graduate Studies Post-Defence Submission page to familiarize themselves with the submission process before starting. Any questions about the submission process should be directed to the College of Graduate Studies at gradtheses.ok@ubc.ca.
The cIRcle Theses and Dissertations page highlights key steps in the submission process for all graduating UBC students.
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By cIRcle staff on Nov 16, 2021
It’s now easier than ever to deposit work to cIRcle with the new cIRcle Non-exclusive Distribution License (Version 3.0). As of November 16, 2021, the cIRcle License includes terms for consent to use of image and audiovisual recordings making the cIRcle Submission Form the one link you need to guarantee open access and long-term preservation for a wide range of scholarly works including podcasts, performances, workshops and more!
With the cIRcle License you retain copyright and assign Creative Commons terms that help viewers know how to share and re-use your content. You also increase the impact and reach of your work by making it openly available for future generations via UBC’s institutional repository.
Complete the Submission form to share your work today, or contact cIRcle Staff to make an open access preservation plan for your conference papers, open education courses, grant-funded research projects and beyond.
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By cIRcle staff on Sep 28, 2021
The cIRcle team is happy to announce the release of our 2020-2021 Impact and Activity Report!
2020-2021 was a year of unexpected challenges and new opportunities that highlighted the importance of open access to research. Early this Spring, cIRcle celebrated passing the 74,000 open access item mark and attracted nearly 1.5 million visits via the UBC Open Collections web portal. With more than 50% of all cIRcle deposits in 2020-2021 coming from faculty and post-graduate researchers, our fast-growing UBC Faculty Research and Publications collection is drawing visitors from around the world to the work of local experts.
Each year, our team focuses on developing new and continuing partnerships with the UBC community. In 2020-2021 more than 100 open access articles representing the crucial contributions of UBC scholars to novel coronavirus research were collected and archived as part of the cIRcle COVID-19 Research Content Recruitment Campaign. Support for Open Education Resources grew as entire open-licensed courses and materials found permanent homes in the repository. cIRcle also welcomed reports and articles created over the past fifteen years from the BC Injury Research and Prevention Unit (BCIRPU) and archived more than 200 images from the grant-funded project ‘Expertise, Labour, and Mobility in Nepal’s Post-Conflict, Post-Disaster Reconstruction: Construction, Finance, and Law as Domains of Social Transformation‘
Behind the scenes, we’ve been working hard to refine our systems and procedures with the goal of making UBC’s scholarly works more accessible. With Atmire, cIRcle implemented a batch import utility to efficiently deposit large batches of content. This tool has increased cIRcle capacity to accept high-volume grant-funded research projects and conference materials. This year cIRcle also initiated a name disambiguation project to review UBC faculty author names in item records that may appear in various forms on the works themselves. To date, the cIRcle team identified and modified hundreds of records, with many more modifications in the works.
Find all of this and more UBC research in cIRcle!
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By cIRcle staff on Sep 15, 2020
We are excited to share cIRcle’s Impact and Activity Report for 2019-2020!
2019-2020 was a year of milestones for cIRcle, UBC’s Research Repository. Early this spring, cIRcle celebrated passing the 70,000 open access item mark. This year also saw more than one million visitors to cIRcle content via the UBC Open Collections site.
cIRcle has continued to support faculty deposits, with more than 2,300 items added – an 8% increase from the previous year. Over the past five years, faculty content has grown from less than 10% of all annual deposits in cIRcle to nearly 50% of all new items.
Every year brings exciting new and continuing partnerships with UBC faculty, students, and our larger research community. Some new partners and projects from 2019-2020 include: the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, the World Sanskrit Conference, and the Punjabi Oral History Project. We also worked with the Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference to archive conference materials after the in-person conference was cancelled due to COVID-19.
Other highlights from this year include developing and testing enhancements for UBC’s Open Collections search and indexing platforms and collaborating with Artefactual to complete upgrades to Archivematica 1.9.2 and Storage Service 0.14.1, our open source digital preservation system. Over 53,000 Archival Information Packages are stored to date, with thousands more in the queue, ensuring long-term accessibility and usability of cIRcle content for future generations.
Dive into UBC research in cIRcle – from pre-prints and post-prints of journal articles to conference materials, departmental publications, technical reports, lectures, course notes, and much more.
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By cIRcle Staff on Mar 18, 2020
We’re still open! We are committed to helping our UBC community make their research openly available to the world via our digital repository, cIRcle. However, we will be reducing our response time for non-urgent requests to 7-10 business days as we transition to remote work. We will continue to review and deposit theses and dissertations as usual. For new requests, please review our Submissions page.
As UBC transitions to online learning, you may also be interested in the guide to remote access to resources and services for UBC Library users.
Follow us on Twitter @cIRcle_UBC for updates on the latest additions to our repository and scholarly communications news.
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