by Sarah Kahale | Oct 16, 2024 | Open access, Publishing
The UVic Libraries provide many incredible — but often underutilized — resources for Grad students. We’ve compiled a list to make it as easy as possible for grad students to find the support they need. Research Book a Librarian Librarians are available to help...
by Sarah Kahale | Oct 2, 2024 | News, Open education
eTextbooks for Students (Fall 2024) We are continuing with UVic Libraries eTextbooks for students project, started in fall 2021, to track the use of library licensed electronic books assigned in courses for the fall 2024 academic term. The project provides a list of...
by Sarah Kahale | Sep 18, 2024 | News, Open access, UVicSpace
UVic Libraries has digitized and made accessible online over 3,000 (1967 to 2004) Masters theses. This multi-year project marks a significant milestone in making student research available to a global audience. The theses were deposited in UVic’s open access...
by Caroline Winter | Sep 17, 2024 | News, OA journals, Open access
UVic Libraries is committed to immediate barrier-free access to Canadian scholarly research outputs. With our publisher agreements, UVic scholars can publish an unlimited number of articles without paying any article processing charges (APCs). We have...
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...
