Congratulations are due to the first winners of a new award launched by UBC’s digital repository and the UBC Vancouver Graduate Student Society (GSS).
The GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award launched this past summer. Its aims are to feature UBC as a leader in the open dissemination of exemplary non-thesis graduate coursework; and to create an incentive for graduate students to populate cIRcle with material beyond theses and dissertations. The incentive is a lottery-style award worth $500, as well as the knowledge that the winning work is made publicly available and administered on a long-term basis by UBC Library.
The inaugural winners, announced at the GSS Council meeting on October 18, include the authors of two projects for Physical Therapy 572. One project features authors Lisa Cornish, Victoria Feige, Adriana Guenter, Christina Kliewer and Emily Mellis; the other project is authored by Jennifer Gonsalves, Evin Kuyer, Tamara McKay, Amy Moffat and Stephanie Palmer.
Since its 2008 launch, cIRcle has been a growing force in the open access movement among national and international contemporaries. According to the July 2012 Webometrics rankings, cIRcle is ranked as the top repository in Canada, and 44th out of more than 1,400 institutional repositories worldwide.
Four GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Awards will be given annually – two in April and two in October. Visit cIRcle to find out about award criteria and additional information.