News Contacts
Michelle BlackwellDirector, Communications & Marketing
UBC Library
Tel: 604 827 4831
Cell: 647 688 3856
michelle.blackwell(at)ubc.ca
Anna Moorhouse
Communications & Marketing Manager
UBC Library
anna.moorhouse(at)ubc.ca
UBC Library research project explores Indigenous perspectives in open education resource development
UBC librarians are embarking on a new collaborative research project that aims to address a fundamental problem in how open educational practices approach Indigenous Knowledges, and instead replicate colonial concepts of ownership and knowledge transfer.
Transformative agreements are changing open access publishing at UBC Library
The growing popularity of open access publishing has broadened the potential reach of published research while introducing new complexities—and costs—to the publication process.
Open UBC launches new searchable online collection to highlight UBC open educational resources
The UBC OER Collection showcases UBC open educational resources (OER) in a searchable interface to support both UBC faculty and the general community in incorporating open educational resources and practices into their curriculum.
UBC Library launches Open Publishing Program to support UBC faculty, staff, and student-led open journals and texts
UBC Library currently hosts 30 active open access journals by providing server space, support, and access to Open Journal Systems (OJS).
Read the UBC Library Digital Initiatives 2020/2021 Impact & Activity Reports online now
The Scholarly Communications and Copyright Office, the Digitization Centre, and cIRcle have each published their Impact and Activity Reports for the 2020/2021 fiscal year.
New Scholarly Communications webinar series to focus on open publishing and building scholarly profiles
Scholarly Communications is launching a new webinar series that will focus on the open publishing process and practices in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Free UBC Library service makes research outputs more visible online
UBC Library’s Digital object identifier (DOI) assignment service makes research more discoverable and helps track scholarly impact.
UBC Library Contributes Search Interface to Federated Research Data Repository
Learn about how Portage and Compute Canada have partnered with UBC Library in adopting our UBC Open Collections user interface.
Join us for Open Access Week!
Open Access Week at UBC is happening October 24-30, 2016. RSVP for events and learn more about what Open Access means for researchers, students and faculty.
Open-Source Geophysics Research Project Awarded IDEA 2016
What is SimPEG? The SimPEG team is one of the two recipient teams for IDEA in 2015. SimPEG is a software package for research and development in geophysics, which provides a framework to carry out numerical research. The project is targeted at promoting exploration, experimentation and extension of ideas in an open-source manner. The […]