Communication

cIRcle Impact & Activity Report 2024-2025

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 […]

Revisiting My Term with cIRcle

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 […]

Theses and Dissertations : Open Access and Embargo Considerations

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 […]

Finding Non-English and Multilingual Theses and Dissertations

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 […]