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The libraries aligns and strengthens university research priorities by highlighting and addressing critical information policy and scholarly communication issues that impact faculty and graduate student research, including open access, copyright and intellectual property rights, and providing concrete avenues to surface and disseminate UVic research.
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Gigantic wave in Pacific Ocean was most extreme ‘rogue wave’ on record; ‘Most extreme ever’: British Columbia’s rogue wave shatters records, stuns scientists
December 10, 2023| ScienceAlert via UVic News; December 13, 2023| The Times of India via UVic News A 'rogue wave' - a wave that is at least twice the size of any near it - appeared near Ucluelet, Vancouver Island in 2020. In February of 2022, researchers determined...
Active earthquake fault line found in Elk Lake area on Vancouver Island
December 9, 2023 | Vancouver Sun via UVic News An international team of researchers have identified an active earthquake fault line that could potentially cause damage to multiple older buildings on Vancouver Island. The total length of the fault line is as yet...
Canadian Research Funders’ Commitment to the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)
In 2019, the five major national research funding agencies in Canada announced that they had signed on to the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), an initiative which calls for more holistic practices for evaluating research outputs. These five...
Maximizing UVic Libraries eBooks for Students
eTextbooks for Students (Fall 2023) 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 2023 academic term. The project provides a list of...
New Title: Learning from our Past
Learning from our Past is a new release published by the University of Victoria Libraries ePublishing Services. It can be downloaded for free on UVicSpace This middle school learning resource focuses on the history of livelihoods and lifeways in the Banda...
Maximizing UVic Libraries eBooks for Students
eTextbooks for Students ( Summer 2023) In our continuing effort to track the use of library licensed electronic books assigned in courses we identified 81 titles used in 40 courses during the summer semester. We searched the University Bookstore’s textbook catalog to...
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