Supported by a federal Insight Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, U of A Digital Initiatives Librarian, Sean Luyk, and Michael O’Driscoll of the Department of English and Film Studies plan to digitize, document, analyze and make available an archive of analogue literary radio recordings broadcast by CKUA between 1970 and 1994.
Read the full story originally published in Folio on May 19, 2026
Love Data Week 2025: “Whose Data Is It, Anyway?” From February 10-14, 2025, the international community will celebrate Love Data Week, exploring critical questions about data ownership and origins. This year’s theme challenges us to examine where data comes from and who owns it before we use it in our work. The U of A Library invites you to participate virtually in Love Data Week activities hosted by the Inter-university Consortium for…
In light of the centennial of Canada’s Copyright Act, we asked Adrian Sheppard, Director of the University of Alberta Copyright Office, to share his reflections and thoughts in this post. As a reminder, you can find more information about the array of Copyright services and resources for University of Alberta faculty, staff and students on the Copyright Office website. For a deeper dive, check out the Opening Up Copyright Instructional Modules.…
Do you want to make your course materials available for your students through the University of Alberta Library, but have not had time to learn and use our Talis Aspire system? We know you have a lot on your plate and we want to help. Please try out our Mediated Course Materials Service! We will pilot this service for instructors to have reading lists created in Talis Aspire by the Course Materials…
The University of Alberta Library has been pursuing publisher contracts that eliminate Article Processing Charges (APCs) for U of A-affiliated authors, facilitating greater dissemination of U of A research results. We are pleased to announce that two new agreements are now in effect for 2024 and beyond via our national Library consortium, the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN). Both the Oxford and Elsevier agreements are in effect for 2024-2026. The Elsevier Agreement…
It’s almost the first week of March, which means Open Education Week! Open Education is a movement that encourages sharing and collaboration through open licensing (licensing that permits free access or reuse) and accessible formats for course materials. It also promotes open pedagogical practices by encouraging the co-creation and customization of learning resources by students and faculty. One of the most exciting aspects of Open Education is the use of Open Educational…
This post was originally published on November 20, 2021. Register and join the Library’s Research Impact Team in their next workshop “Using the SCOPE framework to deliver responsible research evaluations” on February 16 https://ualberta.libcal.com/event/3715050 The University of Alberta is home to many established and emerging researchers. The Library’s Research Impact Team offers services to convey the impact of the University of Alberta’s researchers. I sat down (virtually) with my long time colleague,…
This post was written by Copyright Office Director, Adrian Sheppard, and Copyright and Scholarly Communications Librarian, Amanda Wakaruk What is copyright? Copyright is a set of legal rights established by the federal government and the courts through legislation and case law. Penalties for copyright infringement can be significant, so it is important to have some familiarity with how copyright might apply to you. What does copyright apply to? Copyright is governed by…
This post was written by Librarian, Janice Kung Predatory publishing, also known as deceptive publishing or questionable publishing, is an exploitative academic publishing business model that takes advantage of the open access model by charging publication fees (article processing charges, or APCs) to authors when manuscripts are accepted for publication. While this is a regular practice with open access journals, predatory journals forgo the quality peer-review and editorial processes that are expected…
Those who make regular use of UAlberta Library’s online repository of video and audio materials might have noticed that the interface looks different. That change is Aviary, which takes the place of our former platform ERA A+V. Aside from the updated look, Aviary has several useful features like automated captioning tools, improved object discoverability, the ability to include supplemental files and more. Like ERA A+V it supports Open Access sharing of the…