From Nature: Biden administration instructs all US agencies to require immediate access to federally funded research after it is published, starting in 2026

We’re now trialing nkoda. This is an online music score collection that brings together sheet music and technical/methods publications, within an app where musicians can do the annotations they need to do. Originally built for orchestras, nkoda has now evolved to become compatible with research library contexts (and post-secondary music […]

We’ve just updated the “loan period” for full-ebook downloads on the ProQuest Ebook Central and EBSCO Ebooks platforms. This does NOT relate to downloading chapters, sections, or parts of ebooks! This is only about downloading a whole ebook (as one document). When this happens, a “copy” of the ebook comes […]

Announcement from CRKN: CRKN is pleased to announce that approximately 22,000 digitized Canadian maps have been added to the Canadiana Collection in partnership with McGill University Library. In addition to being publicly accessible on Canadiana.ca, the digitized maps will also be preserved in the Canadiana Trusted Digital Repository (TDR). These digital maps and […]

You may be aware of MIT Press’s Open Access initiative, Direct to Open (D2O). The University of Alberta Library supports D2O through the Canadian Research Knowledge Network. D2O is an effort to raise enough funds from libraries to release the Press’s annual frontlist on an open access basis. Rather than […]