UBC LIBRARY BLOGGERS

Join the conversation

cIRcle News

Reflections on My Time at cIRcle

By Sonia Comstock on April 28, 2026

Image courtesy of UBC Library Communications and Marketing. I started my work as the Digital Repository Research Assistant at the cIRcle Office last September as I entered my third year of my MAS/MLIS program. Through my graduate coursework and professional positions, I had experience with digital asset creation and metadata processing; I also understood many […]

Posted in cIRcle, cIRcle Blog, cIRcle News, Communication, staff | Read More | No Comments

In cIRcle: Slocan History Series

By cIRcle Office on April 7, 2026

Photo courtesy: Beginnings of the Bosun Ranch : reminiscences of Joseph Colebrook Harris The Slocan History Series by Professor Emeritus Cole Harris (1936-2022) in UBC’s Department of Geography, is available in cIRcle. The series documents the social and industrial history of British Columbia’s Slocan Valley, including early settler experiences and resource development. The series was recently […]

Posted in cIRcle Blog, cIRcle News, Communication, faculty, Feature Collections, Open Access, UBC Library | Read More | No Comments

How Do File Formats Affect Accessibility & Preservation?

By Sonia Comstock on March 24, 2026

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 […]

Posted in cIRcle Blog, cIRcle News, Communication, digital preservation, Open Access, support | Read More | No Comments

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

By cIRcle Office on March 10, 2026

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 […]

Posted in cIRcle Blog, cIRcle Facts & Beyond, cIRcle News, graduate research, Open Access, students, undergraduate research | Read More | No Comments

Re-newed in cIRcle: BIRS Workshop Video Recordings

By cIRcle Office on February 24, 2026

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 […]

Posted in cIRcle Blog, cIRcle News, cIRcle Projects, Feature Collections, Open Access, open collections, research discovery | Read More | No Comments

Updates to cIRcle’s File Naming Conventions

By Sonia Comstock on February 10, 2026

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 […]

Posted in cIRcle, cIRcle Blog, cIRcle News, cIRcle Projects, Communication, digital preservation, learning | Read More | No Comments

Connecting Workflows in Open Scholarship

By Leila Malkin on January 27, 2026

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 […]

Posted in cIRcle (UBC’s Digital Repository), cIRcle Blog, cIRcle News, Guest Post, Open Access, Scholarly communications | Read More | No Comments

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

By cIRcle Office on January 13, 2026

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 […]

Posted in cIRcle (UBC’s Digital Repository), cIRcle Blog, cIRcle Facts & Beyond, cIRcle News, Open Access, research discovery | Read More | No Comments

Holiday Closure Notice

By cIRcle Office on December 16, 2025

Photo courtesy Jamil Rhajiak / UBC Brand & Marketing   With the upcoming holiday season, the cIRcle Office will be closed from Friday, December 19, 2025 to Monday, January 5, 2026. During this period, submission processing and responses from our team will be limited. If you want to finish the year strong by sharing your […]

Posted in cIRcle News | Read More | No Comments

Explore cIRcle: Award-winning student publications

By Sonia Comstock on December 2, 2025

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 […]

Posted in award, cIRcle Blog, cIRcle News, graduate research, students, undergraduate research | Read More | No Comments