Posted on: October 26, 2012
What would you think of a public institution that actively supports an industry that’s bleeding it of money? Universities and journal publishers are locked in just that type of relationship, an open-access forum concluded. The recent rise of open-access journals could challenge the power of the commercial academic-journal publishers, such as Elsevier, Sage and Springer…
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Posted on: October 13, 2012
The turbulence engulfing scholarly publishing will receive careful examination this month as the TRU Library hosts a forum in recognition of Open Access Week. The forum features Nicole White, Head of the Research Commons at Simon Fraser University. She will describe the Public Knowledge Project, a partnership among several academic institutions that hopes to encourage…
Read morePosted on: October 3, 2012
All locations of the TRU Library will be closed on Monday 8 October for Canada’s Thanksgiving holiday. (The House of Learning will remain open for study.) AskAway (chat) and email reference services will also be unavailable that day. The Library will reopen at its usual time on Tuesday 9 October. Library staff wish you a…
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