August 29th, 2019 by cIRcle staff | Comments Off on cIRcle Impact & Activity Report 2018-2019

It is a pleasure to announce the release of cIRcle, UBC’s Research Repository Impact and Activity Report for 2018-2019!
In 2018-2019, cIRcle continued its focus on increasing faculty content with over 1,000 new items added – that’s a 9.6% increase from last year.
Examples of some new and ongoing cIRcle partnerships include the following: Database of Religious History (DRH) entries, Transnational Business Governance Interactions (TBGI) Working Papers, audio and video recordings of the Vancouver Institute Lectures, a mix of textual and other media content of the From the Ground Up: Buddhism & East Asian Religions, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA) Graduating Projects, and the UBC Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies’ Ziegler Series of video lecture recordings.
Another cIRcle highlight is the newly automated ingest stream of faculty content published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) via the SWORD (Simple Web-Service Offering Repository Deposit) protocol as well as cIRcle’s collaborative work in enhancing metadata and digital preservation with Artefactual and Atmire.
Discover UBC research in cIRcle – from preprints and postprints of journal articles to conference proceedings to departmental publications and technical reports to lecture/course notes, and much more.
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September 4th, 2018 by cIRcle staff | Comments Off on cIRcle Impact & Activity Report 2017-2018

It is a pleasure to announce the release of cIRcle, UBC’s Research Repository Impact and Activity Report for 2017-2018!
In 2017-2018, cIRcle reached another milestone of over 60,000 items and saw an increase of its annual growth rate from 8% in previous years to 10%.
This report highlights’ include a sampling of cIRcle’s new and ongoing partnerships, its growth and development along with a snapshot of its top content contributors.
Two spotlights of cIRcle projects and collections included in the report are the BioMed Central/SpringerOpen project and the noteworthy additions in the UBC President’s Speeches and Writing collection.
Explore UBC research in cIRcle, for example, the growing number of preprints and postprints of academic journal articles, conference proceedings, departmental publications, technical reports, course notes, and much more.
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March 19th, 2018 by cIRcle staff | Comments Off on cIRcle Impact & Activity Report 2016-2017

It is a pleasure to release the cIRcle Annual Impact & Activity Report 2016-2017!
In 2016-2017, cIRcle (UBC’s Digital Repository) had over 56,000 items. In the past two years, cIRcle has archived more than 4,000 deposits per year — an average annual growth rate of 8%.
Other highlights included in the report:
- A breakdown of the increase in faculty content and a quick summary of the top content contributors
- Developed cIRcle guidelines and practices on improving metadata for greater access and discoverability via UBC Library’s Open Collections portal
- Featured Research Associate Emerita at the Royal British Columbia Museum and UBC alumna, Mary-Lou Florian
- Spotlight on a few key partnerships and collaborations such as the Vancouver Institute Lecture Series and more
A quick sampling of new additions to cIRcle included:
Enhancing the clinical reflective capacities of nursing students http://hdl.handle.net/2429/59683
Form follows parking : strategies for mitigating the impacts of excess parking supply http://hdl.handle.net/2429/57704
Embedding the Frames of Evidence-Based Practice : Intersections in Librarianship http://hdl.handle.net/2429/58260
Research Data Management (RDM) Needs of Science and Engineering Researchers : A View from Canada http://hdl.handle.net/2429/58265
Analyzing Fire Ignition Data in the Kamloops, Lillooet and Merritt fire zones : with implications toward the effects of fire suppression on the landscape http://hdl.handle.net/2429/59241
The landscape of rare cancer : a sea of opportunity http://hdl.handle.net/2429/59312
Interventions to Improve Patient Hand Hygiene : A Systematic Review http://hdl.handle.net/2429/60520
And, last but not least by any means, we were thrilled to add the first fourteen items from UBC President Santa Ono and we look forward to adding more this year!
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