by Madison Fernway | Jun 17, 2024 | News, UVicSpace
June 10, 2024 | Yahoo News via UVic News In the wake of a rising syphilis epidemic, Dr. Caroline Cameron and her team at the University of Victoria are making strides in the fight against this ancient disease. With syphilis cases in Canada hitting close to 14,000 in...
by Kristen De Jager | Jun 14, 2024 | News, UVicSpace
June 1, 2024 | CBC News via UVic News A recent article in CBC News dives into the debates around Canada’s carbon taxes. What was supposed to assist in Canada’s greenhouse as emission targets have now become a political liability. Now the conservative...
by Kristen De Jager | Jun 13, 2024 | News, UVicSpace
The most viewed article on UVicSpace for the month of May was a masters thesis titled Unmasking ChatGPT: The Challenges of Using Artificial Intelligence for Learning Vocabulary in English as an Additional Language written by department of linguistics masters student,...
by Kristen De Jager | Jun 12, 2024 | News, UVicSpace
June 6, 2024 | Victoria News via UVic News On June 6, UVic officially launched the Open Insights Project, which is meant to create multiple tools that will examine pathways to the goal of net-zero carbon emissions that Canada has set. The Open Insights Project has...
by Madison Fernway | Jun 12, 2024 | News, UVicSpace
June 5, 2024 | Neowin via UVic News Ever thought about swapping your gym membership for a virtual reality (VR) headset? Well, a new study highlighted by this article from Neowin suggests you might want to consider it. The study, highlighted by Meta, found that you can...
by Amelia Ritchie | Jun 12, 2024 | Author funding, News, Open access, Publishing
UVic Libraries have a new open access author funding agreement with Elsevier and renewed agreements with SAGE Journals and Oxford University Press. These agreements offer UVic authors 100% waivers or discounts on article publishing charges (APCs). This means that UVic...