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2025 REACH Award Winners
The 2025 REACH Award winners have been announced! The REACH Awards "honour the extraordinary teachers and researchers who lead the way in dynamic learning and make a meaningful impact at UVic". Dr. Yang Shi - Mechanical Engineering Dr. Yang Shi has been a professor at...
New Title: Foundations of Evaluation for Planetary Health
Foundations of evaluation for planetary health, written by Astrid Brousselle, is a new release published by the University of Victoria Libraries ePublishing Services. It can be downloaded for free on UVicSpace: https://hdl.handle.net/1828/22858 Foundations of...
Philosophy in Review’s First Issue of 2026 Is Here
We are pleased to announce the publication of Philosophy in Review, Volume 46, Number 1 (February 2026)—our first issue, in some time, to feature a dedicated cover page. This refreshed visual presentation accompanies a strong new collection of reviews that reflect the...
Zero Textbook Cost Savings Exceed $3 Million
ZTC for Students (Spring 2026) The numbers are in and the savings are counted! For the 2026 Spring semester, UVic Libraries' Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) program saved students a whopping $522,844.66, beating lasts year's savings by $192,064.51! These additional savings...
Building a Culture of Openness: Reflections on the OSCV Launch
Written by Monique Grenier The launch of the Open Science Community of Victoria (OSCV) on October 23, 2025, at the University Club, University of Victoria (UVic), kicked off a multi-institutional initiative dedicated to promoting transparency and openness in research....
Preservation Is Power: Keeping UVic Research Accessible
As we wrap up Open Access Week 2025 and reflect on this year’s theme, who owns knowledge?, one concern keeps coming up: what happens to research after it is published. A 2024 study examining more than seven million digital articles found that more than one quarter of...
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