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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By Kevin Ho on Aug 10, 2010
- 21,100+ titles in the above collection today represents the work of UBC graduate students from 1974-1987 and 1991-2006;
- End of March 2011, the remaining 10,000+ Retrospective Theses and Dissertation titles will be added to cIRcle; and,
- The final result? Complete coverage of UBC theses from 1919-2007.
- 2,900+ titles in the UBC ETDs collection to date – and growing steadily
Curious about the past, future and/or process of archiving UBC theses and dissertations? Be sure to check out these titles in cIRcle:
From Paper to Pixels: Rough Spots and Roadblocks on the Way to ETDs at: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/23316
From Paper to Pixels: Challenges and Solutions on the Way to ETDs at: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27238
Thesis submission and archiving: the Dark Ages at: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27238
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By Kevin Ho on Aug 05, 2010
Did you know? In the ranking of world digital repositories, UBC features at #43.
The “Ranking Web of World repositories” is an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group belonging to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the largest public research body in Spain.
The Cybermetrics Lab, part of the CCHS – CSIC, is devoted to the quantitative analysis of the Internet and Web contents specially those related to the processes of generation and scholarly communication of scientific knowledge. The Cybermetrics Lab using quantitative methods has designed and applied indicators that allow us to measure the scientific activity on the Web.
Above Image Courtesy of: Ranking Web of World Repositories – Spanish Research Council
Above excerpt in italics is courtesy of Ranking Web of World Repositories website – Ranking Web of World Repositories: Top 800 Institutional Repositories
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