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...
by Amelia Ritchie | Mar 15, 2024 | OA policies & mandates, Open access
Effective February 20, 2024, the University of Victoria Libraries revised statement of commitment asserts that any outputs (regardless of format) by UVic librarians and archivists will be shared “as openly as possible and in a manner consistent with copyright...
by Amelia Ritchie | Mar 12, 2024 | News, Open access, UVicSpace
February 28, 2024 | CBC News via UVic News While not all the species identified during Schmidt Ocean Institute’s recent expedition will turn out to in fact be new to scientists, the diversity of marine life that was found is nevertheless important and exciting....
by Kristen De Jager | Mar 11, 2024 | News, Open access, UVicSpace
February 16, 2024 | Vancouver is Awesome via UVic News As the presence of floating kelp forests in marine ecosystems declines in some areas, others are remaining strong. In a recent paper, researchers at the University of Victoria investigated the conditions...
by Amelia Ritchie | Mar 11, 2024 | Open access, Open education, Open scholarship
ePublishing Services, UVic Libraries is pleased to share our OER by Discipline Directory. This reference book, lists a wide range of Open Educational Resources (OER) that may be adopted for courses at UVic. It acts as a referratory where the name of a resource, a link...
by Kristen De Jager | Mar 5, 2024 | News, Open access, UVicSpace
March 1, 2024 | BNN Breaking via UVic News A recent University of Victoria study found that activities, such as croplands, increasing aridity, pesticide pollution, and human developments are threatening 43% of freshwater mammals. The study also found that protected...
