By Kevin Ho on Oct 18, 2010
OA Sessions* for Today – Monday, October 18th:
Funding Agency Panel: Opening up Access** @ 9:00-10:30am
Opening Remarks @ 1:30-1:45pm
Intro. to Open Access and Connected Open Movements @ 1:45-2:00pm
Developing the Cycling Route Planner @ 2:00-2:30pm
Open Research Data @ 2:30-3:30pm
Click here to see OA Week schedule at UBC Vancouver & UBC Okanagan.
* Unless otherwise noted, all OA sessions held at UBC Vancouver are located in the Lillooet Room – 3rd floor – Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
** Connect from your own computer or come to the free live webcast in Woodward Library, McKechnie Room.
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By Kevin Ho on Oct 14, 2010
The Health Advocate Role: Preparing Future Physicians for Socially Responsive Practice is now available in cIRcle, UBC’s digital repository!
Health advocacy represents an opportunity for physicians and physicians-in-training to respond appropriately to the social determinants of health, health care inequities, and the needs of underserved populations. To better prepare physicians-in-training, there is a need to identify tangible ways of incorporating health advocacy into medical curriculum.
The purpose of this e-booklet is to:
- Highlight the activities of health advocate ‘champions’, Vanessa Brcic, Jocelyn Chase, Healthy Young Minds, Tracy Monk, Davedeep Sohi, and Brian Westerberg
- Discuss the social determinants of health and provide case examples on health advocacy
- Identify relevant literature on health advocacy, teaching approaches, and existing program
To access, download, and/or create a permanent link to this e-booklet on your blog or website, visit cIRcle at: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28934.
For any additional information about this e-booklet and other similar teaching resources from the Faculty of Medicine, visit the Office for Faculty Development.
Above logo is courtesy of the Department of Family Practice – Faculty of Medicine – at UBC.
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By Kevin Ho on Oct 08, 2010
cIRcle is home to a collection of student reports from the UBC SEEDS (Social, Ecological, Economic, Development Studies) Program. SEEDS enables students, staff, and faculty to collaborate on research projects that address campus sustainability issues including water quality, transportation, and waste management.
The SEEDS Collection in cIRcle (https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/18861) is home to over 150 student projects and is constantly growing, most recently through the addition of projects from the 2009-2010 school-year.
The top 3 items accessed in this collection as of late September, 2010 are:
1) “2006 Greenhouse Gas Inventory Faculty-Specific Preliminary Analysis” with 640 views
2) “Achieving economic and social sustainability in the inner city : the role of business improvements districts” with 550
3) “2003 UBC Food System Collaborative Project: Summary Findings” with nearly 500 views
To learn more about the SEEDS program and the exciting collaborative research projects occurring on campus, visit their website: http://www.sustain.ubc.ca/seeds.
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By Kevin Ho on Oct 05, 2010
[Photo of: Black bears utilizing reclaimed mine area.]
A new offering from UBC Library at the University of British Columbia enables users to access decades of valuable information on mine reclamation for free.
Each year, the British Columbia Mine Reclamation Symposium is presented by the B.C. Technical and Research Committee on Reclamation (TRCR). This first symposium was held in 1977 as a response to a need in the province for enhanced government and industry communications in the area of environmental protection and reclamation associated with mining.
Proceedings of these symposia, covering not only B.C., but also Canadian and worldwide mines, are a valuable source of information on this important topic. Now, thanks to a successful collaboration between UBC Library and the TRCR, all conference papers – more than 600, dating from 1977 to the present – are available for free online.
The papers are hosted by cIRcle, UBC’s digital repository, which serves as an archive of UBC’s intellectual output. They can be found and searched at https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/6934.
The proceedings have proven to be a big draw. For example, the most popular paper – “Water management of the Steep Rock Iron Mines at Atikokan, Ontario during construction, operations, and after mine abandonment,” found at https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/10657 – has been viewed and downloaded hundreds of times, mainly by users in the U.S. and Canada, but also by those from the U.K., Portugal, China, India , Finland and Norway.
This feature is a valuable resource for anyone in the mining and related industries who is involved with reclamation. Moreover, all recent UBC dissertations, including those related to mining, are available in cIRcle for free and can be found at https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/123456789/2.
The Northern Miner newspaper recently published a story on the mining reclamation symposia, cIRcle and UBC Library.
For more information, please contact Eugene Barsky, Science and Engineering Librarian, at eugene.barsky@ubc.ca.
Above Image Courtesy of: B.C. Technical and Research Committee on Reclamation Photo Gallery
Above excerpt in italics is courtesy of UBC Library News from UBC Library News blog – http://blogs.ubc.ca/librarynews/2010/10/04/mining-for-information/
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By Kevin Ho on Aug 13, 2010
If so, are you also asking yourself, “How does it affect me – as an author, creator, or copyright owner?” or perhaps, “How does it affect me – as an educator, researcher, or user?”.
Bill C-32 is an amendment to the current Copyright Act in Canada and recognized as the Copyright Modernization Act. As announced by the Government of Canada in early June 2010, here is the backgrounder [in part] from the Balanced Copyright website of the Government of Canada:
“[T]he Government of Canada reiterated its commitment to strengthening laws governing intellectual property and copyright in order “to encourage new ideas and protect the rights of Canadians whose research, development and artistic creativity contribute to Canada’s prosperity”. The bill follows through on this commitment.”
“In the summer of 2009, the government launched an eight-week national consultation on copyright modernization. Thousands of Canadians, businesses and stakeholder organizations shared their ideas on how to best adapt Canada’s copyright framework to the digital age. What the government heard is that Canada needs new laws that are fair and balanced for today’s content creators and users and adaptable to respond to the challenges and opportunities of tomorrow.”
Would you like to know more about Bill C-32?
See news releases and resource links about Bill C-32 listed at the end of this blog post.
Above Image Courtesy of: Balanced Copyright – Government of Canada
Above excerpt in italics is courtesy of Balanced Copyright – Government of Canada website.
News Releases:
Resource Links:
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