by Emily Nickerson | Jun 24, 2024 | News, News & events, Open access, Open scholarship
The Canadian Open Access Legal (COAL) Citation Guide/Guide canadien de la référence juridique en accès libre (RJAL), which began with the desire for an open-access legal citation guide in Canada (external link), is now available. Over the course of two years,...
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 Kristen De Jager | May 17, 2024 | Events, Open education
eTextbooks for Students (Summer 2024) We are continuing with UVic Libraries etextbooks for students project, which began in fall 2021. The project’s goal is to track the use of library licensed ebooks assigned in courses for the summer term. The project...
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...
