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 […]
You may have seen this article making the rounds online. It’s from The Atlantic, by Dr. Dan Cohen, Dean of the Library at Northeastern University, and it’s worth a read. Cohen does a good job teasing apart the tensions between the fact of declining usage of print books, and the real attachment that many people […]
Hi all, this week, you may have heard the visiting colleagues from Library and Archives Canada refer to a new report from the research division at OCLC. The report is entitled “Maple Leaves: Discovering Canada Through the Published Record” [link to pdf]. The analysis in the report is based on WorldCat holdings data, […]
As you may have heard, the UAL collection now contains the Indigenous peoples atlas of Canada giant floor map. This map has even been featured on the news, and it is indeed giant. Its home is RCRF. It does circulate, but must be requested using the RCRF Request Form. For more information, please consult […]