By cIRcle Office on September 9, 2025
Photo used with permission of the Mine Water Solutions Conference. The fifth Mine Water Solutions (MWS) Conference was held at UBC Vancouver from June 16-18, 2025. Co-organized by the Bradshaw Research Initiative for Minerals and Mining (BRIMM) and C3 Alliance, this international technical conference brings together experts in the field of mining and water management […]
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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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By cIRcle Office on July 8, 2025
Image courtesy of Open Data Watch. CC BY 4.0 Data Discoverability As part of a panel at the Canadian Health Libraries Association conference this June, UBC Research Data Management Librarian, Eugene Barsky, discusses how descriptions of data and persistent identifiers impact the way others find open datasets. View slides from his talk now in cIRcle: […]
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By cIRcle Office on June 19, 2025
Raven and the First Men. Sculpture by Bill Reid. Photograph by Scarlett Sappho. CC BY-SA 2.0 Reflection and Connection June is recognized as Indigenous History Month in Canada, a time offering increased opportunities to learn about and celebrate the history, heritage, and accomplishments of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. As a companion to many […]
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By savages on May 13, 2025
The Scholarly Communications and Copyright Office has released the 2023/24 Open Access Article Publishing at UBC Report. This report provides an overview of yearly open access (OA) article publishing trends at UBC and seeks to increase transparency around financial conditions for OA article publishing, and to highlight the impact of publisher negotiations on OA at […]
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By feedwordpress on September 28, 2016
In celebration of Open Access Week 2016 The BC Research Libraries Group is Proud to Present: Rick Anderson — President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing & Associate Dean for Collections and Scholarly Communication at the University of Utah who will speak about What Do We Want? (We’re Not Sure!) When Do We Want It? […]
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By feedwordpress on October 17, 2015
The BC Research Libraries Group is proud to co-present Open for Collaboration: Is it Time for Canada to Implement a Unified Open Strategy for Higher Education? October 22 2015, 6:30-8:30pm Room 1430, Harbour Centre (SFU Vancouver) 515 Hastings St, Vancouver This special event is presented in collaboration with SFU Library, UBC Library, BCcampus, Public Knowledge Project, […]
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