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UBC Copyright: news update on Access Copyright
Earlier this week, UBC provided a news update about why it is not signing a license agreement with Access Copyright. In case you missed it, here is a summary along with a UBC acknowledgement to the whole UBC community: Three main reasons why UBC has opted out of Access Copyright: UBC has existing license agreements [...]
New to cIRcle: UBC nursing student journal
UBC-NSJ is now available in cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository On 4 May 2012, the first issue of the University of British Columbia nursing student journal (UBC-NSJ) was made available in cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository! With contributions from the faculty and graduate students in the School of Nursing, this nursing student journal “serve[s] as a medium [...]
New to cIRcle: Changing jellyfish populations
Map of population trends of native and invasive species of jellyfish by LME. Jellyfish are increasing in the majority of the world’s coastal ecosystems, according to the first global study of jellyfish abundance by University of British Columbia researchers. In a study published in this month’s edition of the journal Hydrobiologia, UBC scientists examined data [...]
New to cIRcle: Transformation of natural genetic variation
Transformation of natural genetic variation into haemophilus influenzae genomes UBC microbiologist Rosie Redfield was named one of “Ten People Who Mattered This Year” in the Nature journal as reported by UBC’s Public Affairs in December 2011. And, now you can view her peer-reviewed, full-text journal article that was recently added to the Canadian Institutes of [...]
New to cIRcle: Creative Law
Creative law : selected papers from The University of British Columbia’s 16th annual interdisciplinary legal studies graduate students’ conference The graduate law students’ society of the University of British Columbia hosted, for the sixteenth year, a legal studies graduate student conference held on May 13 and 14, 2011. The conference is well known, largely as [...]
An exploratory study on social networking tools for libraries
UBC Library warmly welcomes Dr. Samuel Chu and his upcoming presentation, Social Networking Tools for Libraries: An exploratory study investigating the use of social networking tools in academic libraries. Dr. Chu is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong. He will present his exploratory study, which examines reasons for using or not using social [...]
Upcoming Copyright, GIS and RefWorks Workshops
In case you missed out last time, there is another round of Copyright, GIS, and RefWorks workshops being offered by UBC Library. To register and/or view more details about these workshops, click on the links provided below. Copyright – Do you have questions or want to learn more about copyright and fair dealing guidelines? Join [...]
UBC ranks 25th among the world’s top 100 universities
The University of British Columbia now ranks 25th among the world’s top 100 universities, according to the 2012 Times Higher Education Reputation Rankings. In the world’s largest academic opinion survey released today in London, U.K., UBC jumps from last year’s 31st to 25th rank. The 2012 Reputation Rankings are based on a survey of academic [...]
