By Alyssa Hamer on Oct 27, 2016
It’s Open Access Week 2016, a possibility to applaud practices that foster Open Access, Open Data and Open Education. This year’s thesis is “Open in Action”, an event to prominence pivotal activities that a educational and erudite village is holding to support and enhance open entrance initiatives.
Here during a Digitization Centre we are unapproachable to value the principles of openness, and are always looking into ways we can urge a appearance and enhance a contribution. To applaud Open Access Week 2016, we’ve expelled a Digitization Centre’s 2015/2016 Impact Report! In this latest assessment, we can learn about all of a engaging projects we’ve been operative on over a past 12 months, and some of a good calm that has been digitized.
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The news highlights a sparkling launch of a online digital portal Open Collections in Oct 2015, and includes statistics on a series of singular site visits to a portal, as good as a many renouned collections.
Here are some engaging contribution minute in a report:
- Open Collections has had over 1 million visitors in a initial 12 months!
- The Digitization Centre has had partnerships with both a Department of Near Eastern and Classical Studies, as good as a CiTR Student Radio Society, to finish digitization projects.
- Staff during a digitization Centre have been operative on a plan to constraint fleeting online calm associated to B.C. and UBC by a web archiving tool, Archive-It.
One of a many favourited images on Flickr this past year!
To learn some-more about what we’ve been adult to this past year, check out a Impact Report underneath “Reports” in a website’s Documentation section. And to learn some-more about how we can attend in Open Access Week 2016, click here.
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