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Open Access Week @ UBC 2011 is only three months away!

This year, the event theme is Open UBC and it will be held in conjunction with the International Open Access Week event, which encourages the academic community to come together to share and learn about open scholarship initiatives locally and worldwide.

Open UBC will be offering a week chock full of diverse events highlighting areas of open scholarship and research. In case you have not attended nor participated in Open Access Week @ UBC events in the past, these events typically include discussion forums, seminars, lectures, workshops, and symposia on topical yet timely issues from a variety of disciplines.

You are invited to attend and/or participate in these FREE and open public events happening during the week of October 24-30, 2011.

With an open “Call for Participation”, this is your opportunity to get involved and share your scholarly output or research and/or tools with fellow UBC researchers, faculty, students, staff and the public.

Did You Know?

Last year, there were many Page displays, File downloads, and Top Country Views of the Open Access Week @ UBC event presentations which are archived within the Library Events collection in cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository. At a quick glance, here are the Top Country Views from Open Access Week held during October 18-24, 2010: Algeria, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Columbia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Lebanon, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and United States of America. To view the statistical detail of a cIRcle item, click on the “Show Statistical Information” hyperlink at the bottom of the item page.

Above image and partial excerpt in italics are courtesy of the Scholarly Communications @UBC website

Newly added conference papers to cIRcle!

The Explorations & Education Conference is the collaborative effort of graduate student representatives from the Graduate Student Council for the Faculty of Education, the Department of Educational Studies and the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy. We have come together specifically to create a safe space for the exchange of academic ideas and to create opportunities particularly for graduate students (at all levels of study) to present their ideas and research.

This conference was held at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver campus) on April 1, 2011.

We are pleased to announce that cIRcle has recently added a few of these conference papers and that there will be some more conference papers coming soon. So, take a few minutes to enjoy reading them by visiting the Explorations and Education conference collection at: https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/34295.

Did You Know?

Coming soon – The latest cIRcle conference collection to be added to the Faculty of Education community under “Education Conferences” is “Investigating Our Practices”. Stay tuned for more details!

Above excerpt in italics is courtesy of the UBC Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy website

Above image is courtesy of the Explorations and Education announcement

June 21st not only marks the beginning of the Summer Solstice but it also means today is National Aboriginal Day in Canada.

Some 15 years ago Governor General Romeo LeBlanc declared June 21st as National Aboriginal Day to honor and celebrate Canada’s Indians, Inuit and Métis. That particular day was chosen because of the cultural significance of the summer solstice in aboriginal cultures. National Aboriginal Day has become a day for all Canadians to celebrate the cultures and contributions to Canada of First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples and aims to bring about awareness to the rest of Canadian society, in all aspects of art, music, oral history and traditional games.

In celebration of National Aboriginal Day, you can find numerous Aboriginal-related items including historical and current UBC theses and dissertations in cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository! See below for more details.

Did You Know?

Currently, there are about 1,980 Aboriginal-related items in cIRcle. To find them, go to the Advanced Search screen in cIRcle and type ‘Aboriginal’ into the ‘Search for’ box.

Above excerpt in italics and image are courtesy of the Summer Solstice / National Aboriginal Day webpage