With our 2021 renewal, UofA alumni now have access to all Springer journals and ebooks. A new link has been created on the Library’s Alumni eResources page.

From Science: Twitter last week permanently suspended the account of Sci-Hub, the website that has posted millions of freely accessible copies of scientific articles pirated from subscription journals. Twitter said Sci-Hub had violated its policy against promoting “counterfeit goods,” according to Sci-Hub’s founder, Alexandra Elbakyan. Full story

From the COPPUL Scholarly Communications Working Group: The COPPUL Scholarly Communications Working Group is planning a virtual Scholarly Communications SkillShare event for Thursday, April 29 10AM-1PM (MST).  Registration will open to COPPUL members and affiliate members at no cost in mid-February. The program and additional details will be shared on […]

“John Wiley & Sons, Inc. today announced the acquisition of Hindawi Limited, an innovator in open access (OA) publishing and one of the world’s fastest growing scientific research publishers, for a total purchase price of $298 million.” – Jan.5/21 The full press release from Wiley is available here.

Starting with the new year, we are participants in the PLOS Community Action Publishing program for two titles of their open access journals: PLOS Biology and PLOS Medicine. This program is facilitated by CRKN, and eliminates Author Processing Fees (APCs) for University of Alberta authors publishing in these titles. Full […]