Scholarly Communications @ UVic

Philosophy in Review’s First Issue of 2026 Is Here

We are pleased to announce the publication of Philosophy in Review, Volume 46, Number 1 (February 2026)—our first issue, in some time, to feature a...

Zero Textbook Cost Savings Exceed $3 Million

ZTC for Students (Spring 2026) The numbers are in and the savings are counted! For the 2026 Spring semester, UVic Libraries' Zero Textbook Cost...

Preservation Is Power: Keeping UVic Research Accessible

As we wrap up Open Access Week 2025 and reflect on this year’s theme, who owns knowledge?, one concern keeps coming up: what happens to research...

Fall 2025 Zero Textbook Cost List Beats 2024 Savings

Zero Textbook Costs for Students (Fall 2025) The numbers are in and the savings are counted! For the 2025 Fall semester, UVic Libraries' Zero...

Zero Textbook Cost list – Fall 2025

It's that time of the year! The Copyright and Scholarly Communications Office is excited to share our annual list of Zero-Cost Textbooks for...

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Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples documents digitized!

Library and Archives Canada announces the digitization of over 600 documents from the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples Established in 1991, the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) travelled across Canada documenting the issues and challenges facing...

58 articles pulled by publisher!

Ewen Callaway | November 3, 2016 | Nature A tranche of 58 articles authored by 282 Iran-based researchers were retracted today by a leading scientific publisher, which said it had found signs that the peer review and publication processes had been compromised. BioMed...

Concordia launches university press

Karen Seidman | Montreal Gazette | October 30, 2016 The Concordia University Press opened for business on Thursday, and is now accepting submissions for scholarly book proposals from around the world as the university ventures into the digital world of publishing with...

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