By Kevin Ho on Mar 11, 2013
“UBC ranks 31st among the world’s top universities in the 2013 Times Higher Education Reputation Rankings, one of only three Canadian institutions to make the top 100 list. This is the third year that Times Higher Education has published its reputational rankings. In 2012, UBC was ranked 25th in the world and in 2011, UBC was ranked 31st. The 2013 rankings are based on a survey of academic opinion, featuring 16,639 responses from 144 countries. The reputational results complement the Times Higher Education’s annual World University Rankings, which came out last fall and ranked UBC 30th. UBC consistently ranks among the top 40 universities in the world.”
Visit http://www.ubc.ca/about/global.html for more details.
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By Kevin Ho on Mar 05, 2013
Mark your calendars and get ready for MUCR 2013 at UBC!
“The Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference (MURC) is supported by the UBC Provost Office, the Vice President, Research + International Office, and the various direct-entry Faculties and Schools at both UBC campuses. It is managed by the Vice President, Students Office. The top presenters from this year’s Conference will be invited to submit papers for possible publication in the conference proceedings. They may also be asked to compete to represent UBC at the U21 Undergraduate Research Conference next July.”
Learn more about MURC 2013 at: http://murc.ubc.ca/.
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You can find previous MURC conference presentations in cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository in the Undergraduate Research Opportunities community. You can also find out which item has been viewed and/or downloaded the most by visiting this community at: https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/24061.
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By Kevin Ho on Feb 27, 2013
In case you missed it, a new modular storage facility is being built to accommodate the future growth of the University of British Columbia’s Library collections. Some of the top FAQs of the new BC Integrated Research Library (IRL) include:
Will students and researchers be able to access the IRL like any other UBC Library branch? Is the IRL open to non-UBC students and researchers? How will items be selected for the IRL? How quickly will items be retrieved? And, of course, the biggest question: When will the IRL be completed?
More details about the BC IRL are available at: http://about.library.ubc.ca/changes/bc-integrated-research-library-bc-irl/.
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There is “a partnership with SFU, UVic, UBC and UNBC to program a Speaker Series that supports scholarship, fosters learning and brings awareness to our respective communities on emerging issues in the information landscape”. Visit the British Columbia Research Libraries Group (BCRLG) community in cIRcle at: https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/24061.
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By Kevin Ho on Feb 18, 2013
Are you a currently registered University of British Columbia Vancouver (UBCV) graduate student who has spent many hours working on a non-thesis, course-related project or manuscript? If so, you could be eligible to win the next GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award.
Two lottery-style awards worth $500 each are provided in April and October each year. Sponsored by the Graduate Student Society (GSS), cIRcle – UBC’s Digital Repository and UBC Library, this award features some of the exemplary non-thesis graduate coursework found only at UBC.
Next GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award deadline is March 31, 2013. Visit the cIRcle website at: https://circle.sites.olt.ubc.ca/gss-graduate-student-society-open-scholar-award/.
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All non-thesis, graduate course-related projects created at UBC Vancouver and approved for submission to cIRcle by the appropriate course instructor are eligible for the GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award. Some examples of work can include essays/paper, presentations (including posters) and video and audio based projects. Visit this cIRcle collection at: https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/42591.
Above image is courtesy of UBC Library’s photostream on Flickr
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By Kevin Ho on Feb 15, 2013
cIRcle (UBC’s Digital Repository) is the institutional repository (IR) at the University of British Columbia. It contains nearly 42,700 full-text items from conference proceedings and workshop presentations, current and historical theses and dissertations to journal articles including peer-reviewed ones, technical reports, graduating and honours essays to webcasts, podcasts, learning objects and more. Regularly indexed by Google, Google Scholar and other web search engines, cIRcle is accessed from all over the globe.
Since the September 2012 update, here is the latest snapshot of cIRcle according to Webometrics (the Ranking of Web Repositories):
@ In the world ranking of *all* repositories, cIRcle is ranked at number 38 (up from number 53) at: http://repositories.webometrics.info/en/world
@ In the world ranking of all *institutional* repositories, cIRcle is ranked at number 32 (up from number 44) at: http://repositories.webometrics.info/en/top_Inst
@ Ranked at 2nd in Canada (after University of Toronto) at: http://repositories.webometrics.info/en/North_america/Canada
Want to learn more about cIRcle? Visit cIRcle at: https://circle.ubc.ca/ (circle.ubc.ca) and click on the ‘About cIRcle’ tab.
Did You Know?
There are permanent URLs for each item in cIRcle. This means no broken links and no need to update the URL every time there is a website redesign–the links to your materials will stay the same over time. Start increasing your research impact with cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository and visit circle.ubc.ca.
Above Jagged Mountain Peaks, Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge image is courtesy of Wikimedia Commons’ website
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