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Connecting Workflows in Open Scholarship

By Leila Malkin on January 27, 2026

Image courtesy of Paul Joseph / UBC Brand & Marketing / UBC Studios My name is Leila Malkin, and I work as the Scholarly Communications Assistant in UBC Library’s Scholarly Communications and Copyright Office. My work connects with several teams across the Library, including cIRcle. Moving between different open scholarship workflows has shown me how […]

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Inside cIRcle: What is it & how can we help?

By cIRcle Office on January 13, 2026

Photo by UX Indonesia on Unsplash   Are you interested in making your research openly accessible online, but aren’t sure where to start? cIRcle is here to help! Read on to find out more about cIRcle and how UBC’s institutional repository can help you share your research with the world. What is cIRcle, and how […]

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UBC Theses and Dissertations at Library and Archives Canada

By cIRcle Office on November 18, 2025

Photo courtesy: Paul Joseph / UBC Brand & Marketing It’s now easier to find UBC graduate theses and dissertations online. After years of collaboration, coverage of theses and dissertations held by cIRcle has been significantly expanded in Library and Archive Canada’s (LAC) public Theses Canada portal, which includes items from across nearly 70 Canadian universities. LAC […]

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Open Access Article Publishing at UBC: Annual Report

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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Rick Anderson Lectures : UVic and SFU — Open Access Week 2016

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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Open for Collaboration: a special event for Open Access Week

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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