De Gruyter, Elsevier, and Oxford are the latest publishers to provide article processing charge (APC) waivers and discounts for Western authors.Visit Western Libraries’ Financial Support for Open Access page for more information and to view…
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Canada’s federal research granting agencies – the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) (“the…
Western Libraries offers many services for researchers: Systematic and Scoping reviews: https://guides.lib.uwo.ca/systematicreviews Finding Data Research data (organizing, sharing, preserving) https://www.lib.uwo.ca/scholarship/rdm/index.html Building digital maps and story maps ( GIS) https://www.lib.uwo.ca/madgic/gis.html Use and Create Open Education resources…
The Aid to Scholarly Journals application is now available. Amount: Up to $30,000 per year (base grant); Up to $5,000 per year (supplementary funding) Deadlines:Faculty Research Office: 1 week prior to SSHRC deadline. (If you…
Western Libraries has announced new agreements with three major publishers that offer new discounts and waivers for open access journal Article Processing Charges (APCs). These new agreements are with SAGE, PLOS, and Elsevier. SAGE: No…
Open access (OA) refers to freely available, digital, online information. Open access scholarly literature is free of charge and often carries less restrictive copyright and licensing barriers than traditionally published works, for both the users and…
Matthew Franke, musicologist, maintains a List of Open-Access Music Journals (LOAMJ – a searchable database) “The LOAMJ contains peer-reviewed academic journals; the supplemental list contains several other resources, including the newsletters of scholarly societies, specialized…
You are invited to participate in Open Access Week – a great opportunity to explore the benefits of open access and learn how to take advantage of open access publishing. Workshop – Before You Sign:…
Western Libraries is offering several workshops this fall that can help you better understand the scholarly publishing process, how to build and promote your scholarly identity, conduct a comprehensive systematic review, and make the most…
Registration is now open, and the full program posted, for the second biennial Research Western Conference. This series of collaborative workshops, seminars and presentations has been organized to help Western’s researchers and scholars kick their…
