by ikehoe | Jan 14, 2019 | News, OA journals, Open access, Publishing
Nature | January 14, 2019 | Dalmeet Singh Chawla The editorial board of an influential scientometrics journal — the Journal of Informetrics — has resigned in protest over the open-access policies of its publisher, Elsevier, and launched a competing publication. The...
by ikehoe | Nov 22, 2018 | News, Publishing & research impact
Canadian Research Knowledge Network | November 15, 2018 As of January 1, 2019, 60 million pages of Canadian digital documentary heritage will be available at no charge to users. The Canadiana collections are the largest online collections of early textual Canadiana in...
by Stephanie Boulogne | Oct 5, 2018 | Events, Open access, Publishing
Join us at the UVic Libraries Digital Scholarship Commons for a public screening of the documentary, “Paywall”. Everyone is welcome. There will be popcorn provided! A public screening of the movie will be held on: Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 Time:...
by ikehoe | Aug 27, 2018 | News, Publishing
Gary Price | August 22, 2018 The [Insta Novels] program, created by Mother [an independent advertising and creative agency] in New York and developed in partnership with the New York Public Library, aims to make some of the greatest stories ever written more...
by ikehoe | Aug 8, 2018 | Open access, Open education, UVic e-Publishing
WINNER! 2019 American Alliance for Theatre Education Research Award This award honors scholars whose research contributes significantly to the field of drama/theatre with or for young people. Submissions are welcome from a wide variety of research traditions that...
by ikehoe | Jul 9, 2018 | News, Research impact
Science | Jeffrey Brainard and Matt Warren | June 27, 2018 Clarivate Analytics issued an update (June 26) of the Journal impact factors. It now includes “a distribution curve displaying the total number of articles and other items published in a journal versus...
