By Vanessa Choy on September 8, 2026
Marigolds in the Market © Ted McGrath CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 cIRcle holds many grant-funded and student works on oral histories of the Punjabi language and history. These items primarily contain footage of professionals, academics, and everyday citizens sharing their stories and knowledge on a variety of topics, such as the past and present Punjabi community […]
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By cIRcle Office on August 25, 2026
UBC Library’s digital collections recently marked a major milestone: more than 300,000 items are now openly available to the UBC community & beyond via Open Collections! Open Collections is a discovery platform that brings together locally created and managed digital resources from UBC Library, including cIRcle, the Digitization Centre, Research Data Management, Archives, and Rare Books and Special Collections. […]
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By Vanessa Choy on July 21, 2026
Stacks © Edna Winti CC BY 2.0 Metadata is known as “data about data,” or descriptive information about an object to help make it discoverable and usable, among many other features. When scholarly material is deposited to cIRcle, the metadata is essential for making that content findable not only within Open Collections, but also on […]
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By Vanessa Choy on June 23, 2026
UBC Pacific Spirit Park © Philip Jeffrey CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 ENVR 400 Community Project in Environmental Science is a project-based course in UBC’s Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric sciences. This course gives students the opportunity to work hands-on with community organizations on an environmental science project, gaining collaborative field experience and producing valuable research […]
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By Leila Malkin on June 9, 2026
Integral Calculus with Applications to Life Sciences by Tsopméné, Paul, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Queer Geography Dictionary by Sloan Morgan, Onyx and Nassim Zand Dizari, CC BY-NC 4.0. Open educational resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that are freely available for others to use, adapt, and share. UBC has an ongoing commitment to OER as […]
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By cIRcle Office on May 12, 2026
Photo from: James, Margaretta. 2025. Coming Home : curation, exhibition and research-creation as reclamation and truth-telling (Page 9). Elder Margaretta James’ thesis, Coming Home : curation, exhibition and research-creation as reclamation and truth-telling is available in cIRcle. In this thesis, James explores her personal and family history as paths to understanding and interrogating colonization, […]
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