Resources

Borealis, the Canadian Dataverse Repository

UBC Dataverse is a free research data repository for faculty, students and staff. The platform makes it possible for researchers to deposit data, create appropriate metadata, obtain DOIs for permanent links, and maintain version control of their datasets.

Copyright Information

This service provides copyright information consultations to researchers on the deposit of works in open repositories.

cIRcle

cIRcle is UBC’s open access digital repository for published and unpublished material created by the UBC community and its partners, including faculty, students, and staff. It aims to showcase and preserve UBC’s unique intellectual output by making content freely available to anyone, anywhere via the web.

Research Data Management Planning Service

Research data is data created or generated as part of a research project, and may include numeric data, text, transcripts, images, video and audio recordings, and more. Good research data management prevents data loss, stores data securely and facilitates data sharing. This service offers advice and support for research data management.

DMP Assistant

An online form that creates a data management plan. The form walks researchers step-by-step through key questions, of which the answers are then formatted into a document that can be attached to grant applications or utilized to asign tasks in a lab.

Federated Research Data Repository

The Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR) is a place for Canadian researchers to deposit and share research data and to facilitate discovery of research data in Canadian repositories.

Research Metrics Service

A service that helps individual researchers determine metrics on their publications.

SciVal

SciVal provides a comprehensive overview of the world’s research (publication and citation) performance. It can be analyzed at a national, institutional, or customized research group level. To do this, SciVal collects a variety of citation, collaboration, and comparative metrics based on data originating from Scopus.

cIRcle Institutional Repository Service

This service aims to assist faculty in depositing intellectual outputs from UBC. The service can help you determine if publications can go into cIRcle and assess permissions, if necessary, from the copyright owner.

Google Scholar Profile

Google Scholar profiles provide a simple way of collating your publications, with citations, so others can find your work. Google Scholar profiles allow you to choose automatic updates so less time is spent updating your publications list.