By Kevin Ho on Oct 08, 2013
With the fall semester in full swing, it is a pleasure to announce that the second issue of the University of British Columbia nursing student journal (UBC-NSJ) is available in cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository!
As stated by the UBC-NSJ’s editor-in-chief, Jae-Yung Kwon, this year targets the “[b]uilding on the success of our first edition” and highlighting the “Graduate Student Symposium 2013, organized by the Graduate Students in Nursing Association (GNSA)”. Examples of such include an exploratory look at the Extended Care Paramedic (ECP) program with an innovative approach to sustainable patient-centred care, a research proposal, an autoethnographic novel, and much more.
Read/download the full UBC-NSJ journal in cIRcle at: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/45164. Or, simply browse/download the individual journal article titles under the “Browse – This Collection” section (then click on “Titles”) at: https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/45132.
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By Kevin Ho on Sep 17, 2013
The cIRcle GSS Open Scholar Award countdown to the next deadline is well underway for all UBC Vancouver graduate students. This Award aims to feature UBC as a leader in the open dissemination of graduate student work while creating an incentive for graduate students to populate cIRcle with material beyond theses and dissertations. Examples of non-thesis graduate coursework include research essays and papers, conference and other presentations (including posters) as well as video and audio based projects to mention just a few.
Upload your non-thesis graduate coursework to the GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award collection at: https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/42591 before the next deadline – Tuesday, September 23rd. Award eligibility details are available at: https://circle.sites.olt.ubc.ca/gss-graduate-student-society-open-scholar-award/.
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By Kevin Ho on Sep 11, 2013
On September 18, the University of British Columbia will suspend its classes to enable the students and faculty and its UBC community members to participate in an historic national event – The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC). The TRC was established in 2008 to gather testimony on survivors’ experiences of the Indian Residential Schools which operated in Canada from 1875-1996.
Learn more about the TRC and events at UBC and around Vancouver by visiting the Indian Residential School Initiative / ourtruth website at: http://irsi.aboriginal.ubc.ca/. Watch the short “Our Truth UBC – September 18” video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjXM5SSzJ-s&feature=youtu.be.
Explore the Library’s “Indian Residential Schools in Canada” online research guide at: http://guides.library.ubc.ca/irss?hs=a.
Visit the special TRC exhibit at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre by the Museum of Anthropology, the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology, Xwi7xwa Library, the First Nations Studies Program, the First Nations Language Program, Musqueam Indian Band (Language and Culture Department) – runs from September 17 to October 31.
Visit the Library’s TRC displays and exhibits at these UBC campus locations: Education Library, Koerner Library, and Asian Library – see their “Hours & Locations” listed at: http://hours.library.ubc.ca/.
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The Xwi7xwa Library has a community with growing collections in cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository. Find various one-of-a-kind scholarly research items such as First Nations community and experiences, Indigenous education and much more. Visit the Xwi7xwa Library collections in cIRcle at: https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/29911.
Above image is courtesy of UBC’s Indian Residential School Initiative / ourtruth website
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By Kevin Ho on Jul 11, 2013
UBC “supports scholarly pursuits that contribute to knowledge and understanding within and across disciplines, and seeks every opportunity to share them broadly.” – From UBC’s Place and Promise
Wondering why it’s good to use open resources and why they’re helpful to you and others when sharing or creating open resources? Learn more through the Open UBC website – open.ubc.ca – such as:
Open access is a growing international movement that uses online technologies to throw open the locked doors that once hid knowledge. Open access projects at UBC are embracing and encouraging unrestricted access to research and scholarly publishing. Explore featured projects such as Open UBC Week, cIRcle, Open Access Journal Hosting, Scholarly Communications at UBC, Transcription Factor Encyclopedia (TFe), the Public Knowledge Project and more.
UBC supports open publishing platforms that are especially well suited to educators, researchers, and scholars. Anyone at UBC is one click away from contributing to UBC’s wiki, creating an open access journal, publishing a research blog or website, or building a professional e-portfolio or community website. Discover these open publishing platforms such as cIRcle, UBC Wiki, UBC Blogs, Open e-Portfolios and others.
Read and/or watch previous Open UBC (Open Access Week) events at: https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/2689 via cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository.
Above image courtesy of UBC Library
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By Kevin Ho on Jul 02, 2013
“E-books are becoming an increasingly important part of academic library collections. According to a 2011 report from the American Library Association,1 e-books currently represent 27% of holdings in academic libraries and the numbers have been steadily increasing for years.2
Despite this growing importance, providing catalogue access to e-books has always been a challenge for libraries. Traditional library catalogues are based on print collections and do not easily accommodate newer formats”.
With the rise of e-books in academic libraries, you don’t want to miss reading this conference paper written by Eugene Barsky, a Science and Engineering Librarian at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and his following co-authors: Sarah Jane Dooley (Dalhousie University), Tara Mawhinney (McGill University), Zoey Peterson (UBC) and Michelle Spence (University of Toronto). View and/or download it via cIRcle at: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44618.
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The Science and Engineering Library at the University of British Columbia (UBC) serves more than 12,000 students, faculty and staff in the Faculty of Applied Science and Faculty of Science in UBC. Visit their ever-growing cIRcle communities (and collections) in cIRcle at: https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/286 (Faculty of Applied Science) and https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/338 (Faculty of Science).
Image Courtesy of ASEE PRISM website: http://www.prism-magazine.org/feb13/annual-03.cfm
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