How Do File Formats Affect Accessibility & Preservation?
Image courtesy of Margo Yacheshyn / UBCO University Relations To support cIRcle’s mission of open access and long-term preservation, cIRcle’s File Format Guidelines offer recommendations and suggestions on how to create accessible, stable, and usable digital files. Through this resource, we aim to help UBC community members who wish to deposit their works to cIRcle […]
by Sonia Comstock – Mar 24, 2026
Student submissions to cIRcle: What, why, and how?
Photo courtesy UBC Library Communications and Marketing As UBC’s institutional repository, cIRcle supports all current UBC students seeking to make their research and course outputs openly accessible online. Our student collections grow each semester, with more than 2,000 non-thesis graduate level publications and nearly 3,000 undergraduate works currently available in Open Collections. Read on to find out more about […]
by cIRcle Office – Mar 10, 2026
Re-newed in cIRcle: BIRS Workshop Video Recordings
Photo courtesy: geralt via Pixabay The Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery (BIRS) holds mathematical workshops at several locations worldwide, and creates video recordings of presentations held during these workshops. BIRS has been a long-standing project partner with cIRcle, collaborating over a decade ago to build an automated deposit feed of these video […]
by cIRcle Office – Feb 24, 2026
Updates to cIRcle’s File Naming Conventions
Image courtesy of UBC Library Communications and Marketing Introduction The cIRcle Office is happy to announce updates to the cIRcle File Naming Conventions! Consistent and thoughtfully-considered file naming standards facilitate the discovery and long-term preservation of cIRcle items, so the changes made to cIRcle’s File Naming Conventions aim to align with broader best practices. This […]
by Sonia Comstock – Feb 10, 2026
Connecting Workflows in Open Scholarship
Image courtesy of Paul Joseph / UBC Brand & Marketing / UBC Studios My name is Leila Malkin, and I work as the Scholarly Communications Assistant in UBC Library’s Scholarly Communications and Copyright Office. My work connects with several teams across the Library, including cIRcle. Moving between different open scholarship workflows has shown me how […]
by Leila Malkin – Jan 27, 2026