Gigantic wave in Pacific Ocean was most extreme ‘rogue wave’ on record; ‘Most extreme ever’: British Columbia’s rogue wave shatters records, stuns scientists

by Amelia Ritchie | Dec 14, 2023 | News, UVicSpace

December 10, 2023| ScienceAlert via UVic News; December 13, 2023| The Times of India via UVic News A ‘rogue wave’ – a wave that is at least twice the size of any near it – appeared near Ucluelet, Vancouver Island in 2020. In February of 2022,...

Active earthquake fault line found in Elk Lake area on Vancouver Island

by Amelia Ritchie | Dec 14, 2023 | News, Open access, UVicSpace

December 9, 2023 | Vancouver Sun via UVic News An international team of researchers have identified an active earthquake fault line that could potentially cause damage to multiple older buildings on Vancouver Island. The total length of the fault line is as yet...

Canadian Research Funders’ Commitment to the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)

by Amelia Ritchie | Oct 11, 2023 | News, Research impact

In 2019, the five major national research funding agencies in Canada announced that they had signed on to the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), an initiative which calls for more holistic practices for evaluating research outputs. These five...

Maximizing UVic Libraries eBooks for Students

by Amelia Ritchie | Sep 27, 2023 | News, Open education

eTextbooks for Students (Fall 2023) We are continuing with UVic Libraries etextbooks for students project, started in fall 2021, to track the use of library licensed electronic books assigned in courses for the fall 2023 academic term. The project provides a list of...

Major publisher retracts 64 scientific papers in fake peer review outbreak

by Amelia Ritchie | Aug 19, 2015 | News

A big problem related to “publish or perish” in academia.  Not actually a virus…