Sarah Polkinghorne

On August 25 we circulated our latest newsletter to UALIB-L. We encourage everyone to read it. It’s also available at this link.

All of our URLs for Commonwealth iLibrary ebooks (660 titles) are currently (temporarily) dead, as they are undergoing maintenance. We expect them to be working again by the end of September. Commonwealth Secretariat staff are working with PKP/OMP to migrate the Commonwealth iLibrary to a new Open Access platform. For […]

CSU and FSA release four major reports on collection expenditures: Collections Expenditures by Vendor, Subscription Expenditures, Large One Time Collections Expenditures, and One-time Payments for Books, by Vendor. These reports now include data for the most recent fiscal year (April 1, 2020-March 31, 2021). They can be accessed on Dataverse: […]

Phase 1 of the Global Press Archive Alliance initiative, funded by libraries like ours, is going strong. Here’s an update on current and future Open Access newspaper collections that will be released through the GPA: Imperial Russian Newspapers: The Alliance’s fourth open-access collection spans the eighteenth through early twentieth centuries […]

I hope you’ve had a chance to learn about the new agreements opening up research articles by University of Alberta authors in most SAGE journals, PLOS Biology, and PLOS Medicine. If not, please read about them here. There’s also been more good news emerging from the work of the Canadian […]