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The Dissertation Workbench : Understanding UBC’s Graduate Research through Metadata

By LeBlanc, Michael on November 3, 2026

Note: This is a guest post by Michael LeBlanc, Senior Manager – Library Applications at UBC Information Technology. I was about five years and three hundred pages into my doctoral dissertation when I stumbled across Marcus Beck’s famous analysis of dissertation length at the University of Minnesota. Beck, then a doctoral student, published a 2013 […]

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Explore cIRcle: Oral Histories on Punjabi History and Language

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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