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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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New in cIRcle: “Coming Home : curation, exhibition and research-creation as reclamation and truth-telling”

By cIRcle Office on May 12, 2026

Photo from: James, Margaretta. 2025. Coming Home : curation, exhibition and research-creation as reclamation and truth-telling (Page 9).   Elder Margaretta James’ thesis, Coming Home : curation, exhibition and research-creation as reclamation and truth-telling is available in cIRcle. In this thesis, James explores her personal and family history as paths to understanding and interrogating colonization, […]

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