Library:Digital Collections and Services
 Important Links UBC Library Digitization Centre Do you have a digitization, archiving, or open journal project? Contact us. cIRcle UBC Library's open access digital repository. Rare Books and Special Collections RBSC houses significant collections of rare books, archival materials, historic maps, photographs, broadsides and pamphlets |
A core goal of the Digital Initiatives Unit is partnering with faculty and researchers in the development of digitization projects to support teaching, research and learning. Projects include:
- The development of collections in the broad areas of British Columbiana, materials which directly support the curriculum, Faculty and Student research output, the material record of the University, and those materials which are considered to be rare or unique. Examples include: BC Bibliography (https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcbooks); and the BC Historical Newspapers (https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcnewspapers)
- Support for UBC faculty and student open access journals through the Open Journal System (OJS).
- The archiving and maintenance of UBC published and unpublished content through cIRcle, UBC’s digital repository.
cIRcle, UBC Library’s open access digital repository, contains published and unpublished content created by the UBC community and its partners. Its aim is to showcase and preserve UBC’s unique intellectual output by making content freely available to anyone, anywhere via the web.
In addition to openly accessible content, cIRcle supports students as emerging scholars offering UBC students, with the approval from course instructors, the ability to ‘publish’ their work open access via cIRcle. In doing so, they can incidentally learn a great deal about copyright, author rights and licensing issues. Additionally, this assists students in developing a vested interest in their work as they prepare content to b openly available on the web. cIRcle encourages student provision of content through the Open Scholar Award, an award for graduate students to submit non-thesis research to cIRcle and have chance of winning a lottery award worth $500.