At this time of year when the moon looms large in the early evening sky, the wind sighs and teases the leaves still clinging fiercely to tree branches… ghosts and eerie tales abound. This is the season of Halloween and tall tales told by moonlight.  Speaking of tales… we have a few to share.   Many of you are perhaps new to our campus, so you might not yet be acquainted with our…

This post was revised on October 28, 2021. 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…

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…