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Persistent Identifiers in cIRcle

By Vanessa Choy on October 6, 2026

Illustration by Vicki Hamilton, courtesy of Pixabay What are Persistent Identifiers? A persistent identifier (PID) is a unique code that identifies and links an entity (a person, place, or thing) across global digital infrastructures. PIDs are important to digital repositories like cIRcle because they support long-term identification and accessibility, directing a user to a source […]

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cIRcle Impact & Activity Report 2025-2026

By cIRcle Office on September 22, 2026

Photo courtesy UBC Brand Have you ever wondered what a year in the life of a repository looks like? The cIRcle team is excited to share our 2025-2026 Impact and Activity Report—a glimpse into the projects, partnerships, and priorities that defined our progress. Read on for highlights from the report to learn more about how […]

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Open Collections: 300,000 items, and still growing!

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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cIRcle Metadata: Why Does it Matter?

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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Get started with cIRcle: Green Open Access

By cIRcle Office on July 7, 2026

Photo by Erik Mclean on Unsplash Have you recently published a paper, or are you planning to submit a manuscript for publication in a peer-reviewed journal? Many publishers allow authors to deposit a version of work into their institution’s repository. Green open access, or self-archiving in an institutional repository like cIRcle, provides authors with an […]

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Explore cIRcle: Open Educational Resources (OER)

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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