With the congregation ceremonies in full swing, it is an exciting time of year for UBC graduates, their families and fellow UBC colleagues along with the UBC community and other well-wishers.

A few congregation facts include:

@ In 1916, there were 41 graduates at UBC’s first Congregation ceremony held at the Hotel Vancouver

@ From 1919 to 1923, the first degrees were conferred in Agriculture, Applied Science in Nursing, and Forestry

@ Currently, there are 12 UBC faculties issuing degrees: Applied Science, Arts, Commerce and Business Administration, Dentistry, Education, Forestry, Graduate Studies, Land and Food Systems, Law, Medicine, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Science.

@ You can view UBC Congregation Ceremonies online at: http://www.graduation.ubc.ca/ubc-vancouver/live-webcast/

So, take a few minutes to celebrate some of UBC’s graduate students’ scholarly research and intellectual output – from across a variety of disciplines – via cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository.

Did You Know?

To date, there are almost 60 community and regional planning projects in the SCARP Graduating Projects collection in cIRcle. The projects cover many topics such as capacity building, healthy cities, participatory governance, primary schooling, transit planning, urban design, and more.

Above partial excerpt in italics and image are courtesy of the Graduation at UBC website

Would you like to have your academic work searched by Google Scholar or have your work archived in the UBC Library?

Be sure to check out the next cIRcle information session as part of the UBC Graduate & Undergraduate Student Workshop Series‘ events offered by UBC Library. The next cIRcle workshop is happening tomorrow at 3pm in Scarfe 155  which is located inside the Education Library (Neville Scarfe Building).

You will learn about cIRcle, what it contains, how you can contribute and what permissions are required to submit your presentations, articles and reports. This session will be facilitated by Jo-Anne Naslund.

To register, please click here.

Above image courtesy of: Flickr: UBC Library’s Photostream

Open Access Week @ UBC 2011 will be happening at UBC on October 24-30, 2011!

Open UBC is held in conjunction with International Open Access Week, which encourages the academic community to come together to share and learn about open scholarship initiatives locally and worldwide.

Open UBC showcases a week of diverse events highlighting areas of open scholarship that UBC’s researchers, faculty, students and staff participate in. These events include discussion forums, lectures, seminars, workshops, and symposia on topical and timely issues from every discipline. We invite everyone to participate either by organizing events, highlighting events already coinciding with the Week, or attending the events to be scheduled.

All of these events are FREE and open to the public, students, faculty, staff and schools.

With an open “Call for Participation”, this is your opportunity to get involved and share your scholarly research and/or tools with fellow UBC researchers, faculty, students, staff and the public.

Did You Know?

Previous Open Access Week @ UBC event presentations are archived in cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository. A variety of topics included open research data, scholarly rights and responsibilities, open source software, and open access journal publishing. Browse these topics and more within the Library Events collection in cIRcle.

Above image and excerpt in italics are courtesy of the Scholarly Communications @UBC website