The University of Toronto Press (UTP) recently made an agreement with EBSCO to distribute most of the Press’s journals exclusively via EBSCO databases, effective January 1, 2026. This affects the journals for which we currently have UTP-direct subscriptions. The main impact of this change for UAL is that we will […]
You may be familiar with the Informit Indigenous Collection, an important database centring on (but not limited to) Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand, and Pacific regions. Now, we also have access to the other nine (9) full-text collections that, together, are known as the Informit Core Collection. This new access is due […]
A top publisher of computing research, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), is transitioning all of its publications to Open Access, an initiative it calls ACM Open. Sustained national advocacy and consortial negotiations have resulted in an agreement to support ACM Open, which UAL has now joined. This agreement gives U […]
As part of our ongoing work assessing Library subscriptions and responding to changes to our acquisitions budget, the CSU team has decided to cancel our subscription to the New York Times via NYT.com and the NYT app. This access will terminate on December 31, 2025. The Library retains access to […]
Effective Friday, 29 August, there is a change to the CSU team’s process for handling requests submitted through the Recommend a Purchase form: requests for titles that have not yet been published will be cancelled. This is noted on the Recommend a Purchase form. Tracking unpublished items must be done […]