cIRcle Blog

How Do File Formats Affect Accessibility & Preservation?

Image courtesy of Margo Yacheshyn / UBCO University Relations To support cIRcle’s mission of open access and long-term preservation, cIRcle’s File Format Guidelines offer recommendations and suggestions on how to create accessible, stable, and usable digital files. Through this resource, we aim to help UBC community members who wish to deposit their works to cIRcle […]

Student submissions to cIRcle: What, why, and how?

Photo courtesy UBC Library Communications and Marketing As UBC’s institutional repository, cIRcle supports all current UBC students seeking to make their research and course outputs openly accessible online. Our student collections grow each semester, with more than 2,000 non-thesis graduate level publications and nearly 3,000 undergraduate works currently available in Open Collections. Read on to find out more about […]

Re-newed in cIRcle: BIRS Workshop Video Recordings

Photo courtesy: geralt via Pixabay The Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery (BIRS) holds mathematical workshops at several locations worldwide, and creates video recordings of presentations held during these workshops. BIRS has been a long-standing project partner with cIRcle, collaborating over a decade ago to build an automated deposit feed of these video […]

Updates to cIRcle’s File Naming Conventions

Image courtesy of UBC Library Communications and Marketing Introduction The cIRcle Office is happy to announce updates to the cIRcle File Naming Conventions! Consistent and thoughtfully-considered file naming standards facilitate the discovery and long-term preservation of cIRcle items, so the changes made to cIRcle’s File Naming Conventions aim to align with broader best practices. This […]

Connecting Workflows in Open Scholarship

Image courtesy of Paul Joseph / UBC Brand & Marketing / UBC Studios My name is Leila Malkin, and I work as the Scholarly Communications Assistant in UBC Library’s Scholarly Communications and Copyright Office. My work connects with several teams across the Library, including cIRcle. Moving between different open scholarship workflows has shown me how […]

Inside cIRcle: What is it & how can we help?

Photo by UX Indonesia on Unsplash   Are you interested in making your research openly accessible online, but aren’t sure where to start? cIRcle is here to help! Read on to find out more about cIRcle and how UBC’s institutional repository can help you share your research with the world. What is cIRcle, and how […]

Explore cIRcle: Award-winning student publications

Image courtesy of Martin Dee / UBC Brand & Marketing Overview Explore cIRcle’s growing collection of award-winning publications written by UBC undergraduate and graduate students, including winning papers from UBC Library’s Undergraduate Prize in Library Research! cIRcle has supported the deposit of student work since its inception, and encourages UBC’s students to explore how cIRcle […]

UBC Theses and Dissertations at Library and Archives Canada

Photo courtesy: Paul Joseph / UBC Brand & Marketing It’s now easier to find UBC graduate theses and dissertations online. After years of collaboration, coverage of theses and dissertations held by cIRcle has been significantly expanded in Library and Archive Canada’s (LAC) public Theses Canada portal, which includes items from across nearly 70 Canadian universities. LAC […]

New in cIRcle: “Understanding Disaster Preparedness in Vancouver: Community Perspectives”

Image courtesy of UBC Brand & Marketing. Explore a recent addition to cIRcle’s collection: Understanding Disaster Preparedness in Vancouver: Community Perspectives. This report from UBC’s Disaster Resilience Research Network (DRRN) was created in collaboration with the City of Vancouver Emergency Management Agency (VEMA) and published in September 2025. Users can access the full report in […]