Month: October 2021

October 25-31, 2021 is the 14th annual Open Access Week, a global, community-driven week of action to open up access to research. The University of Regina Library is taking this opportunity to share some of our work to expand your access to our University’s research.

Today’s highlighted service is: oURspace Mediated Deposit Service

oURspace is the University of Regina’s Institutional Repository, an open access repository for the documentation of the scholarly, creative, and cultural contexts of the University of Regina.
The Library has launched a new service to assist you in determining your copyrights and depositing your born digital or digitized publications into oURspace. Depositing your scholarly work in oURspace makes it accessible to a wider audience, and is one way that grant holders can comply with the Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications.

Use this form to start the process of depositing your publications: https://uregina.libwizard.com/f/MediatedDepositForm or contact ourspace.deposit@uregina.ca for more information.

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October 25-31, 2021 is the 14th annual Open Access Week, a global, community-driven week of action to open up access to research. The University of Regina Library is taking this opportunity to share some of our work to expand your access to our University’s research.

Today’s highlighted service is: Open Journal System (OJS)

The Dr. John Archer Library supports open access publishing by supporting an OJS journal hosting service. This service is open U of R faculty members or students interested in starting an open access journal or migrating an existing journal to an open access platform.   

You can view OJS in action by checking out the Faculty of Education’s journal in education. Contact Christina Winter, Copyright and Scholarly Communications Librarian, at christina.winter@uregina.ca, for more information.

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October 25-31, 2021 is the 14th annual Open Access Week, a global, community-driven week of action to open up access to research. The University of Regina Library is taking this opportunity to share some of our work to expand your access to our University’s research.

Today’s highlighted service is:

Open Educational Resources/Open Textbooks

The University of Regina OER by Subject Directory is an ongoing collaboration between the University of Regina OER program and Archer Library, which began in fall of 2020. Initially created as a book cloning project by OER coordinator Isaac Mulolani and working with library staff member Arlysse Quiring, the project began as a venture to create a single one-stop-shop for any individual looking for open educational resources to further research in their discipline, to see what open textbooks were available for their current classes, to learn about the possibilities in creating online texts and cloning, and learn of the benefits of a program like PressBooks. The open book is a living document, with continual resource updates as they are discovered, created and contributed. Isaac and Arlysse continue to offer regular introductory sessions for the resource every semester.

You can view the directory at https://opentextbooks.uregina.ca/ureginaoerdirectory/.

For more information please contact Isaac Mulolani (isaac.mulolani@uregina.ca) or Arlysse Quiring (arlysse.quiring@uregina.ca)

October is Women’s History Month in Canada. Throughout the month we are highlighting remarkable women through history to the present day, and featuring some of their works in our library collection.

This week we are showcasing Tanya Tagaq. From the Government of Canada on Women of Impact in arts: “Tanya Tagaq is an Inuk throat singer-songwriter and avant-garde performer. Born in Cambridge Bay (Iqaluktuutiaq), Nunavut, on the south coast of Victoria Island, she left home at 15 to attend high school in Yellowknife. It was there that she first experimented with throat singing, a traditional art normally practiced by two women. Later, as a student of visual arts at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, she developed her own solo form of throat singing and soon gained popularity as a performer, both nationally and internationally, through collaborations with Bjork, the Kronos Quartet, Buffy Sainte-Marie and others. Tagaq has won numerous awards, including the 2014 Polaris Music Prize and the 2015 Juno Award for Aboriginal Recording of the Year. In 2016, she was named a Member of the Order of Canada. She is an outspoken advocate for environmental reform and protection of Inuit communities.” (Read more here)

Tanya Tagaq’s book Split Tooth can be found in the First Nations University Library collection here.
A general search of items by and about her can be found here.
Tanya Tagaq’s website (including videos of her works) can be found here.

More historical trivia!!! (Women in Canadian History: A Timeline):

1914-1918: “First female officers served with the Canadian Army Medical Corps.”
1993: “Jean Augustine, first Black Canadian woman elected to the House of Commons.”
2019: “Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls was released.”

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October 25-31, 2021 is the 14th annual Open Access Week, a global, community-driven week of action to open up access to research. The University of Regina Library is taking this opportunity to share some of our work to expand your access to our University’s research.

Today’s highlighted service is:

Open Data

The University of Regina Library can help you find open data collected by others, including governments, to support your research. Open data collected, analyzed, and shared by federal, provincial, and municipal governments can supplement your research in various ways. Besides being free and saving time, open government data can allow for longitudinal analysis, includes data at various geographic levels, and can be used with primary research data. On the federal level alone, researchers can access 26,000 datasets from multiple agencies.

The Library can also help you deposit your research data in a repository. Depositing your research data in a repository has many benefits. You’re not just preserving your data, you’re increasing your research impact. Open data repositories allow you to track downloads and connect with other researchers, meaning you have another metric to measure your research impact. Open data deposit benefits the research community by encouraging collaboration, creating interdisciplinary research, and moving your field of research forward. Most repositories now allow for various levels of access and put more control in researchers’ hands, so consider open data deposit.

For further information or assistance, contact Kaetlyn Phillips, Data Librarian, at kaetlyn.phillips@uregina.ca

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October 25-31, 2021 is the 14th annual Open Access Week, a global, community-driven week of action to open up access to research. The University of Regina Library is taking this opportunity to share some of our work to expand access to our University’s research.

Today’s highlighted service is:
Discounts for Article Processing Charges (APCs)

Some gold open access journals and hybrid journals charge authors fees for publishing articles. The University of Regina Library has negotiated reduced or free article processing charges (APC) with several publishers, providing substantial savings for U of R authors publishing with:

· American Chemical Society (ACS)
$250 USD discount

· Canadian Science Publishing
50% discount

· Elsevier
20% discount

· Journal of agriculture, food systems, and community development
No article processing charges (APC)

· SAGE Choice journals
No article processing charges (APC)

· SAGE gold open access journals
40% discount

· Taylor & Francis
25% discount

Please check details at https://www.uregina.ca/open-access/ or contact Cara Bradley (cara.bradley@uregina.ca) for more information.

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With celebrations, movie nights and delicious treats just around the corner, we have updated our Library Leisure Guide pages for Halloween, Día de los Muertos, and Diwali.

We have added new recipe links and cooking videos (make your own coconut burfi or pan de muerto!), more informational articles and videos on history and celebrations (carve a spooky turnip while watching traditional Mexican dances!), a great new selection of classic and contemporary movies (non-sparkly vampires, singing witches, and a whole lot of Tim Burton!), and much more!

Check out the Halloween tab here.

Check out the Día de los Muertos tab here.

Check out the Diwali tab here.

The entire Leisure Guide can be found here.

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October is Women’s History Month in Canada. Throughout the month we are highlighting remarkable women through history to the present day, and featuring some of their works in our library collection.

This week we are showcasing Dr. Alaa Murabit. From the Government of Canada on Women of Impact in science, technology, engineering and mathematics: “Alaa Murabit is a physician, an international advocate for inclusive peace processes, a UN High-Level Commissioner on Health Employment and Economic Growth, and one of 17 UN-appointed Global Sustainable Development Goal Advocates. Born in 1989 to Muslim parents in Saskatoon, Murabit grew up with her 10 siblings in a household where girls and boys were treated equally, an example she carried into her personal and professional life.” (Read more here)

While still early in her thriving career, a number of articles of interest by and about her can be found here in our collection.
Dr. Murabit’s website can be found here.
Her influential TEDWomen 2015 lecture can be found here.

More historical trivia!!! (Women in Canadian History: A Timeline):

1867: “Dr. Emily Stowe, first Canadian woman physician to practice in Canada.”
1954: “1954: Elsie Knott, first woman elected chief of a First Nation community.”
2017: “Canada took action against gender-based violence” (first federal strategy)”

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October is Women’s History Month in Canada. Over the next few weeks we will be highlighting remarkable women through history to the present day, and featuring some of their works in our library collection.

This week we are showcasing Adrienne Clarkson. From the Government of Canada on Women of Impact in politics: “In 1999, Adrienne Clarkson became the first visible minority to be appointed Governor General of Canada and the first to hold the position without a military or political background. Born in Hong Kong, Clarkson and her parents came to Canada as refugees in 1942, settling in Ottawa. Clarkson spent many years at the CBC as a TV host-interviewer, writer and producer.”

A selection of works by Adrienne Clarkson in our collection:
Belonging: The Paradox of Citizenship
Heart Matters
Canada: A Possible Vision

A general search for articles, biographies and more can be found here.

Additionally this week, some historical trivia (Women in Canadian History: A Timeline):

1875: A university degree is awarded to a woman in Canada for the first time.
1929: Women in Canada are officially recognized as “persons” (previously property).
2005: Same-sex marriage becomes legal across Canada.

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October is Women’s History Month in Canada. Over the next few weeks we will be highlighting remarkable women through history to the present day, and featuring some of their works in our library collection. This week we are showcasing Mary Ann Shadd Cary. From the Government of Canada on Women of Impact in human rights: “Mary Ann Shadd Cary was a courageous abolitionist and the first Black woman in North America to publish a newspaper.”

Read more about her remarkable work and life here.

The book photographed above is one of her most recognized works, and borrowing information can be found here.

A general search for articles, biographies and more can be found here.

Photo courtesy of Jason Cawood.