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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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By Kevin Ho on Feb 11, 2014
Can’t make it to Sochi 2014? Not to worry. There are over 20 UBC experts available to comment on the Sochi Games, from security to sports science at: http://news.ubc.ca/2014/02/04/story-ideas-and-experts-for-the-sochi-games/. Find Games-related experts, Q&As and feature stories about UBC people going to Sochi; Russia; Athlete health, sport medicine and doping; Sport psychology; Sustainability and the Games; Games impacts; Law and society; and, the Paralympics.
Re-live the Vancouver 2010 Olympics via cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository! Explore the cIRcle 2010 Olympics Project which preserved UBC’s intellectual output related to the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Highlights include conference webcasts and other events, research, and coursework.
Stay tuned for… The Vancouver 2010 Olympics’ Intellectual Muscle podcasts in cIRcle soon!
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The Olympic Games Impact (OGI) reports covers the pre-games and post-games’ studies including their results, lessons, and the technical report. Find all of them and more in cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository. Explore the UBC and the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games community at: https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/17995.
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By Kevin Ho on Feb 06, 2014
As a graduate student, would you like to discover, gather, create and share your scholarly research with others who are interested in studying your area of research or with those who are interested in pursuing an exciting graduate student career like yours? If so, don’t miss out on the upcoming Graduate Student Workshop Series’ events designed just for you.
On February 18, come and learn about open access publishing, cIRcle – UBC’s Digital Repository, the GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award; formatting tips/tricks for your thesis; building your academic profile; how to get published; and, how to measure your research impact.
Register for these Koerner Library Research Commons’ Series workshops and more at: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/series/73.
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The GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award showcases exemplary non-thesis manuscripts or projects that are part of graduate student coursework as approved by UBC course instructors. “The Open Scholar Award is an excellent representation of both UBC and its graduate students’ dedication to showcasing our unique intellectual output. It gives graduate students an opportunity to showcase their knowledge outside of their normal networks while encouraging the spirit of collaboration and interdisciplinarity.” — Christopher Roach, GSS President (2013-14)
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By Kevin Ho on Jan 31, 2014
Earlier this week, a new Canadian institute was created to ‘help developing countries benefit from their mining resources in environmentally and socially responsible ways’. Named as the Canadian International Institute for Extractive Industries and Development (CIIEID), it is ‘a coalition between the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, and École Polytechnique de Montréal (EPM)’. Read the full media release at: http://news.ubc.ca/2014/01/29/international-sustainable-mining/.
Access recent and/or historical mining engineering research reports, symposium proceedings, theses and dissertations in the Mining Engineering community at: https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/6926.
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Organized by UBC’s Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering in conjunction with Colorado State University and the University of Alberta, the Tailings and Mine Waste 2011 (TMW) conference was held in Vancouver, BC. Here’s a memorable quote about archiving the TMW proceedings in cIRcle: “We are setting a new standard for open source materials of a very important conference series. The help and support from cIRcle to make this real is highly appreciated.” –Dirk van Zyl, Professor, Department of Mining Engineering
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