The NEOS Ebook Interlibrary Lending Task Force has come to an agreement with SAGE for a six month, whole ebook ILL pilot program. While the interlibrary loan of print materials has long been a fundamental practice within libraries, only a handful of ebook publisher licenses permit the lending of a […]
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 […]
We’ve added a database asset for Black Life in America, a primary source collection covering the period 1704 to 1975. The database provides information of African American history, culture, and daily life, as well as how the media has portrayed people of African descent. Please note that this is not […]
We are cancelling our subscription for 4 Seasons of Reconciliation, and our last day of access will be March 31, 2024. Members of the COPPUL Indigenous Knowledge Standing Committee had expressed concerns regarding the appropriateness of this product in a prairie context. After consulting with these members as well as […]
“The Science family of journals is adopting the use of Proofig, an artificial intelligence (AI)–powered image-analysis tool, to detect altered images across all six of the journals”.