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Open Access Week: Who Owns our Knowledge?

By cIRcle Office on October 20, 2025

Photo courtesy: Hanne Pearce (CC BY-NC 2.0) This year’s Open Access Week theme – “Who Owns Our Knowledge?” – speaks to the rapid and significant disruption underway in the current open access landscape, requiring nuanced discussion in regards to ownership, control, permissions, and equality. Open UBC and UBC Library are offering numerous free events that […]

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Hello from cIRcle’s New Research Assistant!

By Sonia Comstock on October 7, 2025

Image courtesy of Don Erhardt/UBC Brand & Marketing. Hello! My name is Sonia, and I’m the new Digital Repository Research Assistant at cIRcle for the 2025-2026 Winter Term. I am in my third year of the dual Master of Archival Science/Master of Library and Information Studies (MAS/LIS) program at UBC’s School of Information, and I […]

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cIRcle Impact & Activity Report 2024-2025

By cIRcle Office on September 16, 2025

Photo courtesy Paul Joseph / UBC Brand & Marketing / UBC Studios.    The cIRcle team is happy to announce the release of our 2024-2025 Impact and Activity Report! Read on to learn more about some of our achievements and projects from the past year. New year, new milestones! cIRcle’s collection now holds over 86,000 […]

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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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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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Finding Non-English and Multilingual Theses and Dissertations

By Teddie Brock on July 22, 2025

Photo courtesy: Pixabay In a previous post, we shared how cIRcle metadata supports a wide range of characters to provide representation of non-English, multilingual, and non-language content included in UBC graduate theses and dissertations. In this post, we will explain how anyone can use Open Collections to discover UBC graduate theses and dissertations already available […]

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Submitting Non-English and Multilingual Theses and Dissertations

By Teddie Brock & Amber Saundry on June 24, 2025

Photo courtesy: UBC Library Communications and Marketing cIRcle is committed to providing persistent open access to an increasingly diverse range of scholarly resources in a variety of formats, subjects, and languages. An example is the growing interest among graduate students and programs in expanding language representation in theses and dissertations. cIRcle is therefore often asked […]

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