by ikehoe | Sep 9, 2016 | Events, News, Open education
UVic Undergraduate Society (UVSS) The UVSS has launched a #TextbookBroke campaign that aims to “bring awareness to the problems in the publishing business, where students are captive consumers and there is little correlation between product value and price. In...
by ikehoe | Apr 14, 2016 | News
The UVic Libraries and Bookstore hosted the Author Celebration on March 17, 2016. The event took place at the UVic Bookstore and Professor David Leach was the moderator for the author panel. The event featured over 70 titles published in 2014 and 2015 by UVic and...
by ikehoe | Apr 14, 2016 | News, Open scholarship, Publishing
Amy Harmon | March 15, 2016 | New York Times Handful of Biologists Went Rogue and Published Directly to Internet On Feb. 29, Carol Greider of Johns Hopkins University became the third Nobel Prize laureate biologist in a month to do something long considered taboo...
by ikehoe | Apr 13, 2016 | News, OA journals, Open access
Ivan Seminiuk | Globe and mail | April 12, 2016 Canadian scientists have a new outlet for their research and it’s homegrown. On Tuesday, Canadian Science Publishing – an organization born out of the downsizing of the National Research Council – officially launches...
by ikehoe | Apr 5, 2016 | News
Tracey Moore | April 03, 2016 | The Chronicle of Higher Education The study of theater has always been a slightly odd fit with higher education. Theater’s departmental needs are so different from the norm: Where other programs require smart classrooms, desks, and...
