International Open Access Week runs from October 21 – 27; this year’s theme is focused on “Community over Commercialization.” Open Access Week celebrates the importance of making scholarship openly available to serve the best interests of the public and the academic community. The open publishing program at the University of Alberta Library has been driven by the same sense of service for many years.  Libraries around the world, including the U of…

To bring awareness to the Days of Action at the University of Alberta, the Library invited Heather Ritz, Community Social Worker with Wellness Supports, to share her reflections and resources to explore for World Mental Health Day – October 10.  Tending to Self Care I live in a rental house and quite miss having a garden, so this summer I got into container gardening. I had cucumbers, zucchini, tomatoes, beans, peppers, and…

The University of Alberta Library is an important stakeholder for scholarly publishing in Canada. Our open access publishing program supports open, sustainable, and responsible models of scholarly communication, and includes more than 70 journals. Check out some of the new issues below! For more information on Journal Publishing at the U of A Library, please visit our website. New Journal Issues ConstellationsVol. 15 (2024): 2023/2024 – student publishedConstellations is a student-run, student-written, and…

Happy 1st birthday to our Geoffrey + Robyn Sperber, Health Sciences Library! And what a year it has been! We opened our doors for the first time on September 29, 2024, and during the past year, we have welcomed many visitors into Sperber’s beautiful new learning spaces to study and work collaboratively, or to make use of Sperber’s innovative digital scholarship services and community-focused indigenous learning space.  We invite you to learn…