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Support for Open Access Publishing – PLOS Biology and PLOS Medicine

January 5, 2021January 5, 2021 claforesuncategorized

Starting with the new year, we are participants in the PLOS Community Action Publishing program for two titles of their open access journals: PLOS Biology and PLOS Medicine. This program is facilitated by CRKN, and eliminates Author Processing Fees (APCs) for University of Alberta authors publishing in these titles. Full […]

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November Collections Newsletter

December 4, 2020 claforesuncategorized

CSU distributed the sixth in our monthly series of collection newsletters on November 27th. In case you haven’t had a chance yet, you can also read it here. Thanks to all of our colleagues who helped with the cancellation decisions announced this month.

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Cancellations to Databases related to Health Sciences

September 10, 2020September 15, 2020 claforesuncategorized

Dear Colleagues, The following databases will not be renewed once the current subscription period has elapsed:  ComDisDome (Communications disorders database from ProQuest); expires on December 31st. ERIC on the OVID Platform; expires on March 31st, 2021 Note: We are retaining ERIC on the EBSCO platform, so this only is eliminating duplicated access. […]

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Registration for the 2020 CRKN Virtual Conference: Access in Transition is now open!

September 10, 2020September 24, 2020 claforesuncategorized

Dear Colleagues,  Please see the notice below from CRKN. Registration for their virtual conference is now open, and is being offered free of charge: This year’s conference takes the form of a series of virtual sessions running twice a week throughout October. You may register for each day of the […]

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Retaining Subscription to Criterion on Demand

September 1, 2020September 15, 2020 claforesuncategorized

We have reversed our decision to cancel our subscription to Criterion on Demand. Our subscription had been set to expire on September 30th, but due to increased demand for streaming resources and difficulties in securing alternatives, we’ve decided that it would be best to retain this subscription for at least another […]

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