By Kevin Ho on Mar 18, 2014
Did you just complete a graduate non-thesis, course-related project or manuscript? If so, it could help you win the next GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award.
Two lottery-style awards worth $500 each are provided in April and October each year and is sponsored by the Graduate Student Society (GSS), cIRcle – UBC’s Digital Repository and UBC Library. The Award submission deadline is next week. Find more Award details at: https://circle.sites.olt.ubc.ca/gss-graduate-student-society-open-scholar-award/.
Note: Registered UBC Vancouver graduate students upload their own work to cIRcle, subject to course instructor approval, to the following cIRcle collection at: https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/42591.
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The GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award aims to ‘feature UBC as a leader in the open dissemination of exemplary non-thesis graduate coursework; and to create an incentive for graduate students to populate cIRcle with material beyond theses and dissertations.’ Examples of work have included essays, oral presentations, posters, video and audio based projects. Visit this cIRcle collection at: https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/42591.
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By Kevin Ho on Mar 14, 2014
Nearly twenty Intellectual Muscle (IM) podcasts were recently archived in cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository. The “Intellectual Muscle – The Talks” project was sponsored by VANOC, UBC Continuing Studies and The Globe and Mail for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games held in Vancouver, British Columbia.
The Intellectual Muscle podcasts have found ‘a permanent home’ in cIRcle and represent ‘not only a valuable Olympic, but truly Canadian resource’, as stated by Ken McGrath, Technical Director of this sponsored project.
Listen to the IM podcasts in the UBC and the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games: Events cIRcle collection at: https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/17997/browse. Browse the UBC and the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games cIRcle community which preserves UBC’s Olympic legacy at: https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/17995.
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Faculty, researchers, students, staff, visiting scholars, and UBC community partners can deposit their academic and creative materials in cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository. Learn more about cIRcle’s content guidelines at: https://circle.sites.olt.ubc.ca/getting-started/circle-content-guidelines/.
Above image is Modified from: Brock University Map Library. Canada (no names). [PDF]. Software Edition. St. Catharines, ON: Brock University Map Library. 2004. http://www.brocku.ca/maplibrary/images/canadaNONAMES.pdf.
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By Kevin Ho on Mar 12, 2014
A renowned expert in research and innovation policy who has forged close collaborations between universities, civil society and business has been appointed the 13th president and vice chancellor of the University of British Columbia. Dr. Arvind Gupta is currently chief executive officer and scientific director of Mitacs, a not-for-profit organization recognized internationally for nurturing the next generation of research and business-savvy innovators. Gupta succeeds Professor Stephen Toope, who completes his eight years’ service on June 30, 2014. Gupta will become president on July 1 for a five-year term, while retaining his position at UBC as professor of computer science. The UBC Board of Governors made the appointment following an international search by a 22-member committee comprising faculty, staff, students, alumni, senate and board members from UBC’s Vancouver and Okanagan campuses, and chaired by UBC Chancellor Sarah Morgan-Silvester.
To read the rest of this UBC Public Affairs’ Media Release, visit: http://news.ubc.ca/2014/03/12/ubc-board-appoints-13th-president-and-vice-chancellor/.
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Dr. Arvind Gupta, UBC’s 13th President and Vice Chancellor (effective July 1, 2014) and Professor Stephen Toope, current UBC President and Vice Chancellor, co-authored an opinion-editorial piece in The Vancouver Sun on May 2, 2012 entitled, Building bridges from B.C. to Brazil : ties being developed through student exchanges will provide a foundation for future relationships that benefit all. In cIRcle, it is openly accessible in the Office of the President community under the Speeches by UBC President Stephen J. Toope collection at: https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/25805 and appears among the “Top 10 Items (from this collection) For All Time”.
Above partial text in italics is courtesy of UBC Public Affairs | Photo by: Martin Dee
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By Kevin Ho on Mar 06, 2014
A new version of the cIRcle Non-Exclusive Distribution License (‘the License’) will go into effect on Friday March 7, 2014. This License applies to materials added to cIRcle on or after March 7, 2014.
As before, copyright holders retain their copyright under Version 2.0 of the License. The text of the new License is available here: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/46029.
The License will be applicable to theses and dissertations as well as to all non-thesis work in cIRcle. (Up until March 7, 2014, there is a separate license for theses and dissertations).
For the first time, the License will provide re-use rights. The Re-use rights spell out the conditions under which people who find your work in cIRcle are allowed to re-use that work.
This Creative Commons license is known as the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs, or CC BY-NC-ND license. The text of the license is available here: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. More details will be announced shortly so stay tuned.
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By Kevin Ho on Feb 17, 2014
cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository is currently ranked the number 1 repository in Canada and consistently ranks in the top 5 of Canadian repositories in “The Ranking Web of World Repositories” operated by the Cybermetrics Lab in Spain. In North America, cIRcle is ranked number 12. Internationally, cIRcle ranks number 20 out of 1660 institutional repositories and number 29 out of all world repositories numbering 1746 as of February, 2014.
With over 44,000 full-text items, cIRcle content is indexed by high-profile search engines such as Google, Yahoo! and Bing, as well as academically focused search engines and collections such as Google Scholar, OAIster and CARL making it quick and easy for scholars and others to find UBC scholarly research.
Visit cIRcle at: circle.ubc.ca to find out what types of materials can be submitted to cIRcle and more.
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cIRcle is a service of the UBC Library and is a key player supporting the ‘Accelerate Research’ strategic direction in the Library’s Strategic Plan which in turn is based on UBC’s core commitment to ‘Research Excellence’ as described in Place and Promise: the UBC Plan. Learn more about cIRcle at: circle.ubc.ca.
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