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Over 30,000 Retrospective Theses and Dissertations are now available in cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository! Last April, this historical collection contained ‘over 25,000 titles and approximately 4.24 million digitized pages’.  The UBC Retrospective Theses and Dissertations Digitization Project is nearly complete with thanks to Chris Hives, University Archivist, and his amazing team!

Learn more about the UBC Retrospective Theses and Dissertations Digitization Project and its progress at: https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/831.

Above partial excerpt is courtesy of Chris Hives, University Archivist in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.

Above image is courtesy of UBC Library’s photostream on Flickr.

Did You Know?

To browse newly added UBC theses and dissertations, you can visit the Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) 2008+ collection in cIRcle.

Are you or your colleagues one of these UBC affiliations – Faculty, Investigator, Postdoctoral Fellow, or Graduate Student?

Then, you or your colleagues should attend our next workshop which builds upon the recent Scholarly rights & responsibilities workshops.

Our Increasing the Impact of Your Research workshop is happening this Thursday, November 17th at 1:00-2:00pm in Koerner Library Room 217. We will cover what you should know about publisher agreements, open access and how to use cIRcle, UBC’s information repository, to increase the impact of your research.

Pre-register for this free workshop at: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/2213

Above image is courtesy of Cepolina Photo website

Nominations are now open for the 2012 UBC Library Innovative Dissemination of Research Award. That means, you could be the next award winner!

Established by the Library in 2010, this Award focuses on new and innovative ways of communicating and disseminating knowledge. The Award honors UBC faculty, staff and students who are expanding the boundaries of research through the creative use of new tools and technologies that enhance the research findings being disseminated.

The award consists of a framed certificate of recognition and a $2,000 cash prize.

All UBC faculty, staff, and students may nominate themselves or others as candidates for the Library Innovative Dissemination of Research Award.

Deadline for Applications: Monday, November 28, 2011, 5 p.m.

More details are available at: http://scholcomm.ubc.ca/events-awards/award/

Did you know?

Previous award winners and honourable mentions include:

Wash With Care by Anne-Marie Nicol – available in cIRcle at: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/33872

Using theatre to disseminate research findings in education by George Belliveau

MOACAT and the Museum of Anthropology’s (MOA) collections online site by Nancy Bruegeman

Circos by Martin Krzywinski

Above text in italics is courtesy of the Scholarly Communications @ UBC website

Above image courtesy of UBC Library’s photostream on Flickr