by Madison F. | Oct 29, 2025 | UVic Authors, UVicSpace
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 after it is published. A 2024 study examining more than seven million digital articles found that more than one quarter 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 Amelia Ritchie | Mar 15, 2024 | OA policies & mandates, Open access
Effective February 20, 2024, the University of Victoria Libraries revised statement of commitment asserts that any outputs (regardless of format) by UVic librarians and archivists will be shared “as openly as possible and in a manner consistent with copyright...
by ChristianS | Aug 2, 2022 | News, Open access, UVicSpace
In the 2022 edition of the influential CWTS Leiden Ranking, UVic was ranked as top Canadian university in open access publishing: It is ahead in making its research publicly accessible, with an overall share of 57.8% circulating in open access journals and...
