by ikehoe | Nov 9, 2020 | Events, News, Open access, Open education
As if They Were the Enemy: The Dispossession of Japanese Canadians on Saltspring Island by Brian Smallshaw is a new release published by the University of Victoria. It can be downloaded for free on UVicSpace: https://dspace.library.uvic.ca/handle/1828/12244 On 22...
by ikehoe | Oct 13, 2020 | Events
Updated October 13, 2020 | UVic Libraries UVic Libraries is offering another set of workshops under the Pathways to Scholarship Workshop Series. It was created to provide institutional and mentoring support to promote the academic success of our scholars...
by ikehoe | Oct 13, 2020 | Events
The ETCL/UVic Libraries Honorary Resident Wikipedian this year is Silvia Gutiérrez De la Torre, the Digital Humanities Librarian at El Colegio de México in Mexico City. Silvia is a fantastic, energetic librarian who is interested in issues related to equity and...
by ikehoe | Sep 14, 2020 | News
Springer Nature | September 10, 2020 A new Springer Nature study indicates that open access (OA) books have a far greater regional reach, greater usage, and higher citation counts than non-OA books. It shows that OA books have substantially more readers in low-income...
by ikehoe | Jun 29, 2020 | Open education
This year, BCcampus offered two types of grants for institutions that bookend each side of the open education spectrum, from foundational, when institutions examine how open education may be incorporated into their teaching systems, to sustainable, for institutions...
