Coming out of your silo Leveraging cIRcle to increase your academic impact Inspiring Knowledge Creation, Exploration and Discovery FROM HERE Hilde Colenbrander, Francisco Grajales, & Meghan Radomske October 21st, 2010 | UBC Open Access Week What is your place of mind regarding your research? How many papers do you write in a year? How many of these get published? What happens to all the others? Is this fair to you, your colleagues, and your faculty? cIRcle Experiences from the field The GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award The Innovative Dissemination of Research Award Future Directions Discussion A database for the UBC community and its partners: ◦ for the published and unpublished scholarly materials that you create All materials in cIRcle are openly accessible on the web cIRcle is a service of the UBC Library circle.ubc.ca/ Pilot project in Spring 2007 Full Library service in Spring 2009 Openly accessible on the web Increased visibility and readership Improved indexing and hence findability Multidisciplinary inquiry Serendipitous discovery and collaboration Recruiting tool Classroom teaching tool Stable URLs / links Management and preservation of digital materials Open Access mandates (e.g. CIHR) With acknowledgements to SMARTech at Georgia Tech A database built on Open Source software (DSpace) Organized into Communities and Collections Files are uploaded into Collections Indexed by Google and other search engines cIRcle tracks usage statistics Usage stats The vision: to create an international, publicly available showcase for UBC research It’s part of Place and Promise, UBC’s strategic plan ROAR (Registry of Open Access Repositories) currently lists 1920+ repositories around the world § Australia: 61 § Brazil: 73 § Canada: 59 § Germany: 123 § India: 58 § South Africa: 28 § UK: 179 § USA: 343 http://roar.eprints.org/ Digital materials: ◦ Research papers ◦ Conference and workshop papers ◦ Theses and dissertations ◦ Exemplary student projects (selected by academic units) ◦ Unpublished reports and working papers ◦ Books, chapters and sections ◦ Datasets ◦ Learning objects ◦ Multimedia and audio-visual materials Atlas of BC record https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/21647 Next screen: cover page of Atlas Copyright owner retains copyright cIRcle requires a non-exclusive license to distribute (from rights holder) Optional: attach a Creative Commons license to your work in cIRcle More than 28,500 items 26,100+ theses and dissertations Top item in cIRcle has been viewed more than 4,000 times (since December 2009) Retrospective Digitization Project ◦ More than 33,500 UBC theses and dissertations since 1920s ◦ Showcase past UBC students’ unique projects & promote contemporary research ◦ Currently includes over 22,800 theses & dissertations from 1974-1987 & 1992-2006 ◦ First graduate degrees issued in 1919 to Ruth Fulton and Isobel Harvey ◦ 6 out of first 10 UBC Masters degrees were earned by women ◦ Fulton’s thesis has been viewed nearly 200 times from the US, Canada, China, Austria, Switzerland, & Kenya ◦ All UBC theses & dissertations encouraged to be submitted electronically to cIRcle ◦ Over 3200 available ◦ Most accessed? “Canadian women and the (re)production of women in Afghanistan” by Melanie Butler with over 2500 views since April Social, Ecological, Economic, Development Studies ◦ Unique academic program ◦ Students, staff, & faculty collaborate on campus sustainability issues from climate change to waste management ◦ Over 500 student projects featuring 3000 contributors since 2000—saved UBC $200,000 ◦ cIRcle preserves and showcases over 170 of these projects ◦ Adam Rucker’s project has been viewed over 650 times in the last 6 months Professor Judith Lynam School of Nursing: ◦ “As an investigator who is taking up an ‘integrated KT’ approach to dissemination—it is helpful to have some additional ways to refer to work (e.g. reports) that are developed for a broader audience than the typical audience for peer reviewed publications”. Emeritus Professor R.G. Matson Laboratory of Archaeology: ◦ “cIRcle is searchable, has good use information, and, above all is reliable, in our world of constantly changing URLs.” ◦ “We are impressed [with] the number of downloads recorded in cIRcle, indicating that it has a far wider circulation than we realized.” The GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award Recognizes and rewards innovative ways of communicating research Students, faculty and staff are eligible First winner, March 2010: Cycling Route Planner, Michael Brauer and his team Awarded annually by UBC Library Enabling you to use cIRcle as your database management system: ◦ Store your research output in cIRcle ◦ Create easy access to your research from your web site ◦ We take care of long term accessibility and preservation Streamlining uploading procedures Making all UBC research publicly available through a single web portal How many papers have you written and saved in your hard drive? What is stopping you from adding them to cIRcle? What would it take for you to put them up? Hilde Colenbrander ◦ hilde.colenbrander@ubc.ca Francisco Grajales ◦ cisco@franciscograjales.com Meghan Radomske ◦ meghanradomske@gmail.com
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Title | Coming out of your silo: leveraging cIRcle to increase your academic impact |
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Colenbrander, Hilde Grajales, Francisco J. Radomske, Meghan |
Date Issued | 2010-10-21 |
Description | cIRcle is UBC’s open and digital repository for showcasing your research and teaching materials to the world. Whether you are a faculty, staff, post-doc, graduate, or undergraduate student at UBC, cIRcle is your database! This presentation showcased some exciting work at UBC by student and faculty researchers and how it can be accessed on cIRcle. The speakers also presented some of the benefits of including your work in UBC’s digital repository, and some awards that you could be eligible to win as a student, faculty or staff member. This session took place on October 21, 2010 in the Lillooet Room of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at the University of British Columbia. [Note: The PDF file contains an embedded video on slide 42 which is available as a separate mp4 file below]. |
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Date Available | 2016-11-15 |
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DOI | 10.14288/1.0077836 |
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Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Library, UBC Arts, Faculty of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS), School of |
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