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UBC Open Collections surpasses 300,000 digital objects

By Anna Moorhouse on September 14, 2026

UBC Open Collections celebrates a major milestone, with the open access website reaching a total of 300,000 publicly accessible digital objects.

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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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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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The Periódico Unión Cívica Collection: From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Dominican Republic

By Katrina Yaskowich on July 9, 2026

Today we are highlighting a new and exciting collection on Open Collections. The Periódico Unión Cívica collection is a rare Spanish-language periodical that offers rich insights into the politics of the Dominican Republic in the immediate aftermath of the Rafael Trujillo dictatorship. Physical copies of this newspaper are also held at the National Archives of […]

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