To mark International Open Access (OA) week this year, we’ve prepared a guide on how to find an open avenue for disseminating your own research. We’ve written about OA many times, right here on this blog! See what others are doing around the world, by visiting Open Access Week’s website! Why Open? Traditionally, commercial scholarly publications have been only available to those who can pay and are therefore “closed” to everyone else.…

On May 3rd, 2021, the University of Alberta (U of A) Library’s website search function changed over to EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). While this change allowed searchers to cast a wider search net with just a few keywords, the switch to EDS also meant that users needed to log in with their CCIDs in order to receive search results. This was all fine and dandy for our current U of A students, staff…

As was indicated in our earlier post with some of the fun and interesting facts about Nigeria, the country has a rich literary scene. We are fortunate to have books from many prominent Nigerian authors here at University of Alberta Library, as well as many of our partnering NEOS libraries. For today’s post we’ve focused on a sampling of adult fiction by Nigerian authors that are worth checking out. This is just…

This post was written by SLIS student Heather McMullin The University of Alberta has a proud theatre tradition. If you want to see what U of A drama students have been producing lately, check out their compilation of studio videos here. For a look further back though, University of Alberta Archives’ online photo collection offers a quick step back in time with scenes from plays put on by past students. Let’s start…