Coming out of your silo

Leveraging cIRcle to increase your academic impact

Inspiring Knowledge Creation, Exploration and DiscoveryFROM 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?� 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� A database for the UBC community and its partners:◦ for the published and unpublished scholarly materials that you creatematerials that you create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� Improved indexing and hence findability

� Multidisciplinary inquiry

� Serendipitous discovery and collaboration

� Recruiting tool

� Classroom teaching tool

� Stable URLs / links

� Management and preservation of digital � 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’sstrategic plan

� ROAR (Registry of Open Access Repositories) currently lists 1920+ repositories around the world§ Australia: 61§ Brazil: 73§ 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 ◦ 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◦ Unpublished reports and working papers ◦ Books, chapters and sections ◦ Datasets ◦ Learning objects ◦ Multimedia and audio-visual materials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)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 viewedmore 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& 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 womenearned 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◦ 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 ◦ 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 monthsover 650 times in the last 6 months

� Professor Judith LynamSchool of Nursing:

◦ “As an investigator who is taking up an ‘integrated KT’ approach to dissemination—it is helpful to have 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. MatsonLaboratory of Archaeology:

◦ “cIRcle is searchable, has good use information, and, above all is reliable, in our world of constantly 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� 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 ◦ 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 � What is stopping you from adding them to cIRcle?

� What would it take for you to put them up?

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� Hilde Colenbrander

◦ hilde.colenbrander@ubc.ca

� Francisco Grajales� Francisco Grajales

◦ cisco@franciscograjales.com

� Meghan Radomske

◦ meghanradomske@gmail.com