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Revisiting My Term with cIRcle

By Teddie Brock on August 26, 2025

Photo courtesy: UBC Library Communications and Marketing As my term with cIRcle comes to an end, I have been reflecting on what I’ve learned during my introduction to working in an open access institutional repository. This post is an overview of my contributions to various cIRcle projects and the skills I have developed over the […]

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UBC Library 2024/25 Senate Report

By phoebe chan on August 26, 2025

UBC Library’s annual Senate Report (2024/25) is now available. Read our highlights from the past fiscal year which include advancing research, learning and scholarship, engaging with communities, creating and delivering responsive collections, inspirin…

Posted in Carousel, Collections, community engagement, publications, research learning and scholarship, senate report, Senate Reports, spaces, spaces and services, student spaces, support | Read More | No Comments

eResources Current Short Staffed- Slow to Respond to Tickets

By ryan regier on August 15, 2025

Due for unforeseen circumstances the eResource Team will be short staffed between August 15th – Sept 5th. We will be slow to respond to tickets and emails. Thank you for your patience. Please do feel free to follow up if you don’t get a response from us within a few days. Thank you, Ryan Ryan Regier  […]

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Lake Louise Becomes the Swiss Alps in Eternal Love

By Jill Henderson on August 14, 2025

Browsing UBC Open Collections, one can find several instances of comparison between Western Canadian mountain ranges and the Swiss Alps. This postcard book, for example, labels the Rockies as the “Switzerland of America”. 20 Beautiful View of the Canadian Pacific Rockies, The Road through the Switzerland of America (Uno Langmann Collection, circa 1920s) Like the […]

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ASTM Access Issues

By ryan regier on August 12, 2025

ASTM has moved some content (ebooks and journals) to a new website – ASTM Digital Library
ASTM Standards are still located on the old ASTM Compass website.
Users may linking issues. If so, please report to eResources.

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New Books at the Law Library – 25/08/12

By elimwong on August 12, 2025

LAW LIBRARY level 3: KEO629 .M58 2023
D. DuPerron & P. Willetts, eds, Mitigation in Ontario Employment Law (Ontario: LexisNexis , 2023).

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New data management plan templates available to help researchers planning projects

By Library Communications on August 5, 2025

New resources to support sound data management practices when planning research projects are now available for the UBC research community.

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New Books at the Asian Library (July 2025)

By phchow on August 5, 2025

New titles have been added to the Asian Library collections. Check them out online or in-person!

Posted in Carousel, Chinese language, Circulation, Collections, Japanese language, New Books, Persian language, South Asian language | Read More | No Comments

Theses and Dissertations : Open Access and Embargo Considerations

By cIRcle Office on August 5, 2025

Photo courtesy: UBC Brand & Marketing All UBC graduate students are required to submit their thesis or dissertation to cIRcle, UBC Library’s open access digital repository. But what does open access mean, and what are the implications and impacts to your research in the short and long term?  And is there an option to request a […]

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Pitchbook Access Not Working

By ryan regier on August 5, 2025

All users who are trying to access Pitchbook are getting redirected to a new login site and then seeing an Invalid IP error when they try to login.
https://resources.library.ubc.ca/page.php?details=pitchbook&id=2710
We have reported to Pitchbook an…

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