Summer 2025 Zero-Cost eTextbook Savings Round Out the Year

by Sarah Kahale | Jul 16, 2025 | News

eTextbooks for Students (Summer 2025) For the 2025 Summer semester, UVic Libraries’ eTextbooks program saved students a whopping $92,199.84, beating lasts summer’s savings by $29,596.74! This is a continuation of the UVic Libraries’ eTextbooks for...

The Future is Open: Launching the Open Science Community of Victoria (OSCV)

by Sarah Kahale | Jun 18, 2025 | News & events

By Monique Grenier | June 18, 2025 In today’s digital age, a significant amount of research data remains inaccessible to the public. This creates a major hurdle, as data is the engine of discovery and innovation. To tackle this challenge, Open Science has...

For third consecutive year UVic Libraries maximizes eBook savings for students

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...

Maximizing UVic Libraries eBooks for Students

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...

Open Educational Resources Directory for Courses at UVic

by Amelia Ritchie | Mar 11, 2024 | Open access, Open education, Open scholarship

ePublishing Services, UVic Libraries is pleased to share our OER by Discipline Directory. This reference book, lists a wide range of Open Educational Resources (OER) that may be adopted for courses at UVic. It acts as a referratory where the name of a resource, a link...