by Sarah Kahale | Nov 3, 2025 | News & events, Open access, Open education
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....
by Sarah Kahale | Sep 23, 2025 | News, Open education
Zero Textbook Costs for Students (Fall 2025) The numbers are in and the savings are counted! For the 2025 Fall semester, UVic Libraries’ Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) program saved students a whopping $694,467.15, beating lasts year’s savings by $437,407.72!...
by Madison F. | May 29, 2025 | OA journals, UVic e-Publishing
The May issue of Philosophy in Review (Vol. 45, No. 2) is now available! This edition brings together insightful reviews of recent philosophical publications, covering a range of topics from semantics to cosmotechnics. Whether you’re an avid reader of philosophy...
by Sarah Kahale | Jan 28, 2025 | News, Open education
eTextbooks for Students (Spring 2025) The numbers are in, the classes are dropped, and the savings are counted! For the 2025 Spring semester, UVic Libraries’ eTextbooks program saved students a whopping $330,780.15, beating lasts semester’s savings by...
by Sarah Kahale | Oct 24, 2024 | Events, Open access, Open data, Open scholarship
UVic Libraries and Research Computing Services are working together to bring you a series of workshops on Reproducibility, spanning from October 2024 to February 2025. What is reproducibility? Reproducible: A result is reproducible when the same analysis steps...
by Sarah Kahale | Oct 21, 2024 | Events, Open access, Open scholarship
Open Access Week 2024 runs from October 21–27, and UVic Libraries invite you to join us in celebrating! This event aims to raise awareness about the benefits of open access (OA) in research and to celebrate the progress made towards making it a standard practice in...
