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As a follow up to the message sent to the Public Services list last week, here is a link to the message sent to faculty and instructors in the departments most affected by this cancellation.

Everyone, an update on the Elsevier/University of California situation. If you’ve been following this story, you’ll recall that in February, UC announced that it would not renew its Elsevier subscriptions. In brief, in their negotiations, Elsevier was unwilling to recognise (and then compensate for) the nearly one million dollars paid […]

As you know, in CSU, we do buy some print textbooks from Pearson, both as part of the textbook lending program, and as regular additions to the collection. Pearson has just announced that it will phase out print textbook publishing. Details are scant at this point, but it appears that […]

Statistics Canada recently launched a new open access data portal called Statistics on Indigenous Peoples. The siteprovides data on Indigenous communities, including children and families, health and well-being, education, work, language and culture. There is a link to this site on the A-Z Databases list.

We’ve been alerted by CRKN that there are changes related to APC discounts for a couple of our publisher platforms: The American Chemical Society (ACS) is moving from a 25% discount for UofA authors to a flat discount $250 USD per OA article, effective July 1/19. Personal ACS members will […]