By Kevin Ho on Sep 06, 2012
Have you heard the buzz about the new GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award launched on July 9, 2012 at UBC Vancouver?
The GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award represents a joint collaborative of the UBC Vancouver Graduate Student Society and cIRcle / UBC Library. Its purpose is twofold: firstly, to feature UBC as a leader in the open dissemination of exemplary non-thesis graduate coursework; and, secondly, to create an incentive for graduate students to populate cIRcle with material beyond theses and dissertations. All submissions to this collection are approved by students’ course instructors.
The first Award, as approved by the UBC Vancouver Senate, will be made in October 2012.
Why is this Award such an important initiative? See the direct quote we received directly from your GSS President at UBC Vancouver:
“This opportunity is exactly the kind of thing that I hoped for when I started out as a graduate student. It is an opportunity to be recognized by my peers outside of the normal networks. This is an important initiative both for the collegial spirit it promotes and the way it encourages us to collaborate more openly. We look forward to hearing from you!“
—Conny Lin, GSS President
So, could you be eligible to win this Award? Make sure you check out the Award criteria and additional information readily available at: https://circle.sites.olt.ubc.ca/gss-graduate-student-society-open-scholar-award/.
Did You Know?
Concerning the GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award, four awards will be made per annum, two in April and two in October. Find out what types of material you can submit by visiting: https://circle.sites.olt.ubc.ca/gss-graduate-student-society-open-scholar-award/.
Above image courtesy of UBC Library’s photostream on Flickr
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By Kevin Ho on
Audio-visual materials that accompany the book ‘Nooksack Place Names: Geography, Culture, Language’, by Allan Richardson and Brent Galloway have been made available in cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository. The audio-visual materials are available in cIRcle at: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/34111.
These unique materials “provide an elder’s recorded pronunciations of all the places named and several hundred colour images, and together with the book show the richness and strength of the Nooksack people’s connection to the land”.
Note: The audio clips contained in the PDF files are accessible to users who have the Adobe Acrobat Pro software installed on their computers.
Enjoy!
Did You Know?
The above UBC Press book is also available via the UBC Library catalogue at: http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=5731803.
Above image is a map from the Nooksack Place Names: Geography, Culture, Language book
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By Kevin Ho on
In case you missed it, this September marks some new and exciting changes happening with a few UBC Library services and redesigned spaces for UBC students, faculty and the community.
While some services changes are already in effect (or getting underway) at the Walter C. Koerner Library as mentioned in an earlier cIRcle blog post, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre is also undergoing some of its own changes.
The Chapman Learning Commons in the Irving K. Barber Learning will feature a new UBC Library multi-service desk along with other service offerings such as the AMS Tutoring and Peer Academic Coaching services.
More information about construction dates and temporary moves of the UBC Library Reference services are available at: library.ubc.ca.
Did You Know?
On March 18 2010, the Faculty of Graduate Studies Council endorsed a new single structure and format to be followed for UBC theses and dissertations. To learn more,
visit the UBC Faculty of Graduate Studies website at: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/current-students/dissertation-thesis-preparation/structure-ubc-theses-dissertations. To browse current and retrospective UBC theses and dissertations, visit cIRcle at: https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/2.
Above image is courtesy of the UBC Library website
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By Kevin Ho on Aug 11, 2012
“The University of British Columbia and its faculty, staff and students are creators of various forms of intellectual property, as well as consumers of intellectual property. As creators, we rely on the protections offered by intellectual property laws to ensure that our work product is protected from improper use. As consumers of intellectual property, we are legally (and morally) obligated to respect the intellectual property rights of others, just as we expect others to respect our intellectual property rights…One intellectual property right that is very important to UBC faculty, staff and students is copyright.”
Would you like to learn more about copyright at UBC? Are you curious about your own copyright obligations or how to obtain permission to use copyrighted materials? If so, simply register and attend a free session being offered as part of the Copyright Education Series – a collaboration between The Library, CTLT, and The UBC Bookstore.
The next Copyright Clinic Drop-In sessions will both be happening at 11:30am-12:30pm on August 16th at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and on August 30th in the Walter C. Keener Library.
Did you know?
UBC has a dedicated website (http://copyright.ubc.ca) that provides useful information on copyright guidelines, fair dealing guidelines, distributing course resources and much more.
Above image is courtesy of UBC Library and partial excerpt in italics is courtesy of UBC’s Copyright at UBC website
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By Kevin Ho on Aug 02, 2012
IGH’s mission is “to foster research excellence regarding the influence of gender and sex on the health of women and men throughout life, and to apply these research findings to identify and address pressing health challenges“.
Last month, IGH held an information session which was recorded and archived in cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository. It provides researchers with ‘an overview of the five-year Research Chair program in gender, work and health recently launched by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Institute of Gender and Health in June 2012’.
The recorded information session and the presentation slides are all available in English and French. Have a look and find out more about this funding opportunity. You will learn about relevant research areas, eligibility for available funding and awards as well as key deadlines at: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/42857.
Did you know?
You can see other CIHR IGH items in cIRcle by visiting this collection at: https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/27008. To find out which top item in this collection has been accessed 598 times worldwide, just click on the following link: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27571.
Above text in italics is courtesy of the CIHR IGH website at: http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/8677.html.
Above image is courtesy of the Health Research in Canada website at: http://www.facebook.com/HealthResearchInCanada
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