Fall 2014 Meeting Package

Hi AAAL!,

Please see the attached AAAL Fall 2014 Meeting Package and feel free to print a hard copy version for yourself.

Also remember to eat!:  AAAL friends & family are invited for pre-AAAL dinner & drinks at Earls @ 7:30pm, Wednesday November 19.

8629 112th Street Campus Towers, Edmonton AB
Get directions via Google maps
tel.   (780) 439-4848

See you soon!,

Samuel

Open Access Week Events in Alberta

open_accessThere are a variety of Open Access Week events happening around Alberta this week including talks on open access publishing, open education resources, open data, and more…

Also, be sure to check out the brand new institutional repositories set up at Mount Royal and MacEwan!

Hosting an event at an institution not listed above? Email Robyn Hall (hallr27@macewan.ca)

Celebrate Open Access Week!

Here is my long promised post on freely accessible online research resources. And just in time for Open Access Week too!

Over the years as I’ve come across interesting online research resources that are freely accessible. Working at a small academic library it’s been advantageous to look for quality academic resources to supplement the toll access resources that we can afford. I’ve indexed (in a rather slapdash manner I’ll admit) these resources using Zotero Standalone made them publicly available at Bibliographia Electronika. They are grouped according to their general copyright status:

Continue reading Celebrate Open Access Week!