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By Kevin Ho on Oct 23, 2013
Are you curious about open access and how it can increase your research impact? Join us at Open UBC 2013 today!
Find out how digital technologies and contemporary open education practices are affecting the economics and traditional business models of education. Learn about new faculty-based innovative open projects, courses, sharable and extensible tools and approaches for student learning and engagement at UBC. Discover how UBC students are leading open access for their peers and beyond.
Register to attend any (or all) Open UBC event session held in conjunction with UBC’s Celebrate Learning Week (Oct. 20-26) at: http://oaweek.open.ubc.ca/register/.
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Gregor Kiczales is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at UBC. He is an ACM Fellow and the 2012 recipient of the Dahl-Nygaard Senior Prize for his achievements in programming language design research. He is also the instructor for the Introduction to Systematic Program Design MOOC at Coursera. Hear his Open UBC 2013 talk about MOOCs and on-campus learning happening at UBC at: http://oaweek.open.ubc.ca/2013/09/14/moocs-and-on-campus-learning/. Register for any (or all) Open UBC 2013 event sessions at: http://oaweek.open.ubc.ca/register/.
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By Kevin Ho on Oct 11, 2013
With this year marking the 5th annual Open Access Week event series at the University of British Columbia, it is exciting to see highlights of the upcoming Open UBC 2013 programming schedule.
If you haven’t yet registered for any Open UBC event sessions held in conjunction with UBC’s Celebrate Learning Week (Oct. 20-26), there is still time. Get a sneak peek and learn more about the Open UBC 2013 keynote speaker, Peter Binfield (co-founder of Peer J) and other invited speakers featured in the Library’s LibFOCUS October 2013 issue at: http://about.library.ubc.ca/2013/10/07/celebrating-open-access-at-ubc/ and http://blogs.ubc.ca/library/category/libfocus/.
View the Open UBC 2013 full schedule, speaker bios, registration details and more at: http://oaweek.open.ubc.ca/register/.
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By Kevin Ho on Oct 09, 2013
This year marks the 5th annual Open Access Week event series at the University of British Columbia. Don’t miss out on this celebration. Join us on Oct. 22-23 in the Dodson Room of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
Open UBC “encourages the academic community to come together to share and learn about open scholarship initiatives locally and worldwide”. It is a free event series held in conjunction with Celebrate Learning Week (Oct. 20-26), International Open Access Week (Oct. 21-27), and the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology at UBC.
Guest speakers and highlights include Peter Binfield (co-founder of PeerJ), Paul Stacey (senior project manager at Creative Commons), Margaret Munro (award-winning science writer at Postmedia News), a Student Open Access Pecha Kucha panel presentation, an Open robotics and 3D printing demonstration, and experts on open education and flexible learning, including Erin Fields (Teaching and Learning Librarian) from UBC Library.
Now, let the Open UBC 2013 countdown begin! Register today at: http://oaweek.open.ubc.ca/register/.
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“The Open Access ‘Megajournal’ (a class of journal defined by the success of PLOS ONE) is a reasonably recent phenomenon, but one that some observers believe is poised to change the publishing world very rapidly.” Read more about it at: http://oaweek.open.ubc.ca/2013/09/03/open-access-megajournals/. Register for any (or all) Open UBC 2013 event sessions at: http://oaweek.open.ubc.ca/register/.
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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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