We are pleased to announce that two new read-and-publish agreements are now in effect for 2024 and beyond via our national Library consortium, the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN). University of Alberta authors are now eligible for unlimited Open Access publishing in over 1,800 Elsevier Hybrid journals with no Article […]
You may be aware of MIT Press’s Open Access initiative, Direct to Open (D2O). The University of Alberta Library has been supporting D2O through the Canadian Research Knowledge Network since 2022. D2O has already(!) met their 2024 funding goal and all 79 scholarly monographs will be made openly available. The […]
This invitation was shared via CRKN, and might be of interest to many in the library. Registrations are open for the second DOAJ at 20 webinar on the 28th September at 13.00 UTC. This webinar will be around the theme Global, and we will hear eight lighting talks from inspiring […]
There’s a new, open access, Global Press Archive collection! It’s Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers. This collection has just launched with an initial 100,000 pages from 15 newspapers, from Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, and Morocco: browse by title here. Over the coming months, this collection will come to include more than 400,000 […]
Hi everyone, JSTOR provides us newly-published ebooks from many university presses from around the world. The way it works is that nearly every week, JSTOR adds new books to their platform, with the catalogue records following within 7-10 days (at which time the UAL cataloguing team, aka the “bibebook” team, loads the […]