About UNBC's Institutional Repository
The Institutional Repository at the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) is an open access digital repository for published and unpublished material created by members of the UNBC community.
Its aim is the showcase and preserve UNBC’s unique intellectual output by making content freely available to anyone, anywhere.
As a service of the UNBC Library, the Institutional Repository provides researchers with a free, secure, and long-term home for the presentation, dissemination, and preservation of their research and scholarship. By utilizing the Institutional Repository, researchers ensure their work achieves compliance with the Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications.
The content of the Institutional Repository may be distributed across one or more platforms, to accommodate the particular needs for hosting and publishing specific types of materials and file formats (for example theses, maps, journal articles, or images).
For more information about UNBC's institutional repository, please contact:
Geoffrey Boyd
Metadata Librarian
gboyd@unbc.ca
About Arca
UNBC's institutional repository is part of Arca, a collaborative initiative to support the development and implementation of digital repositories at BC post-secondary institutions. Arca houses a broad variety of institutional knowledge, including scholarly material and digital assets such as administrative documents, newsletters, images, multimedia, and audiovisual materials.
Arca is built on Islandora, a Canadian-developed open-source platform currently in use at over 100 public and private institutions worldwide. This shared platform provides post-secondary institutions with open-access repositories for research, theses, and any other digital assets they wish to make available to the wider community.
More information about ARCA can be found on the BC Electronic Library Network website.