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Join us for Climate Action Week from November 2 to 8. UBC Library will be hosting events, activities, and displays alongside other libraries from across Canada for the week and throughout the month of November.
Mend the Gap! Every Tuesday, Woodward Library hosts a student-led mending circle where you can work on your projects and learn how to mend your own clothing. During Climate Action Week the Mending Circle will be happening on November 3. Bring your clothes or other textiles to repair and drop-in to the Mending Circle. All are welcome!
Date and time: Tuesday, November 3, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. (occurs every Tuesday through Dec 8)
Location: Woodward Library’s Sherrington Room
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When the area beside UBC that is now leləm̓ Village was returned to Musqueam in 2007, it set off waves of protest from the local Vancouver and UBC community. These protests were concerned about the deforestation and removal of natural areas from Pacific Spirit Park. On the other side, Musqueam and their supporters saw this return of unceded Musqueam Land as a chance to show how populated cities, dense forests, and Indigenous reconciliation can co-exist.
For Climate Action Week, join UBC Librarian and Local Naturalist Ryan Regier for an exploration of the leləm̓ Forest Park. Learn about the history of the area, forest ecology, and how leləm̓ is a successful example of how cities can better integrate with forests and reduce the impacts of climate change.
Date and time: Tuesday, November 3, 2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Location: Meet at the leləm̓ Community Centre
Register here
Sustainability starts with sustaining ourselves. Explore Lightwork meditation in this one-hour interactive class designed to help you release stress, recharge your energy and prevent burnout while doing work that matters. Leave feeling calmer, clearer and more grounded. No experience needed!
Date and time: November 4, 12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
Location: Zoom
Register here
Woodward Library will host a repair cafe with stations for sewing, darning, jewelry repair, scrap rug making, and reusable beeswax wrap making, with textile experts on hand to assist participants. Textile repairs can include helping with holes, tears, buttons and patching in clothing, bags, stuffed animals and more. Hand sewing, darning, rug making, sewing machine, and jewelry repair stations will be available. Please note that this is an event focused on learning and collaborative crafting, rather than an alteration or major repairs service. The Repair Café has the right to reject any items that are unclean or contain hazardous materials.
This is a drop-in event, and time with our repairers is first-come, first-serve. While you’re waiting for your turn at the repair table, you can grab a treat, do a puzzle, create with Lego, check out our textile mending books, and more. We hope to see you there!
Date and time: Thursday, November 5, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Location: Woodward Library
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Presentation and discussion at the UBC Okanagan Library.
Poster presentation and discussion with Karina Jarzecki, 2026 award winner of the Sharron Simpson Family Community Engagement Endowment Fund. Also available will be additional information on the UBC Okanagan Library Seed Library and upcoming workshops.
Date and time: Tuesday, November 3, 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Location: Sawchuk Family Theatre (COM 104)
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All events and activities are part the national Climate Action Week for libraries.
From letters between university presidents and politicians, to photographs of winning teams and copies of the student newspaper dating back several decades, UBC’s university archives contain a treasure trove of materials detailing the institution’s storied history.
For UBC Library processing archivist Nataliya Radke, each new box presents new questions and opportunities to learn within her field.
As winner of the 2026 Diana Lukin Johnston Professional Development Award at UBC Library, she will soon advance her skills and competency in copyright management related to archival materials through a course in Canadian copyright law.
“The University Archives team, within which I work, is privileged to have a diverse collection of physical and digital materials,” she says. “However, the range of materials also means we face an equally diverse set of challenges relating to copyright that often affect how we preserve, reproduce, and share our holdings with the public.” Though she often works closely with UBC’s Copyright Office and librarians to tackle these challenges, Radke is interested in developing her own competency in this area to further support the team’s work.
“Over the past six months, [the University Archives team has] processed tens of thousands of individual archival materials that are now available to the public,” Radke shares. “Across 40 different fonds and collections, these materials reflect the unique history of UBC and the activities and stories of staff, faculty and alumni.”
As a term archivist with the library, Radke has also participated in a variety of initiatives that support student, researcher and public access to library archives and materials. “While my primary focus is processing archival donations and transfers, I’m also fortunate that I have had a ton of other opportunities, including assisting patrons with research questions, outreach programs, donor relations, and conducting tours of the Chung | Lind Gallery,” she says. “Every day is different and I love every minute of it.”
She also appreciates how these opportunities have allowed her to embody the library’s aspirational value of community in different ways. “I think that archives bring people together from all walks of life,” she says. “Whether you’re a faculty or staff member, a student, a researcher or a community member, we want to work with you to see if we have the materials you need or connect you with the place that might. Working together helps ensure our holdings continue to reflect the inherent diversity of our users and the UBC community and creates opportunities to innovate that might not have been there otherwise.”
Learn more about this year’s Library Employee Recognition Award Winners or about working at UBC Library.
LAW LIBRARY level 3: HV9960.C2 C75 2025
J.V. Roberts, ed, Criminal Justice in Canada: A Reader, 7th ed (Emond, 2025).
LAW LIBRARY level 3: K3240 .A34 2026
C. Szurlej, ed, Human Rights: Principles and Practice in Canada and Internationally (Emond, 2026).
LAW LIBRARY reference room (level 2): KE250 .S88 2026
N. Sutton et al, Legal Research: Step by Step, 6th ed (Emond, 2026).
LAW LIBRARY reference room (level 2): KE484.E7 M34 2026
B. MacDougall., The Law of Estoppels, Election, and Waiver by Abandonment, 3rd ed (LexisNexis Canada, 2026).
LAW LIBRARY reference room (level 2): KE1269 .P74 2026
A.C. Preyra & E. Unrau, The Law of Occupiers' Liability (Emond Montgomery, 2026).
LAW LIBRARY reference room (level 2): KE1987.H65 W56 2026
P. Wilson, P. A. Willie & J. Corraini, A Guide to Hospitality and Tourism Law in Canada, 2nd ed (Emond Montgomery, 2026).
LAW LIBRARY reference room (level 2): KE5015 .V36 2026
G. Van Harten, G. Heckman & J. Promislo, Administrative Law: Cases, Text, and Materials 9th ed (Emond Montgomery, 2026).
LAW LIBRARY reference room (level 2): KE8440 .E95 2026
H. Stewart et al., Evidence: A Canadian Casebook, 6th ed (Emond Montgomery, 2026).
LAW LIBRARY reference room (level 2): KE8532 .R46 2026
J. Berryman et al eds, Remedies: Cases and Materials, 9th ed (Emond Montgomery, 2026).
LAW LIBRARY level 3: KF318 .A7518 2026
J. Allen & C. Jones, eds, The ABA Cybersecurity Handbook: Cybersecurity, Its Legal Implications, and the Emerging Risks of AI (American Bar Association, Cybersecurity Legal Task Force, 2026).
LAW LIBRARY reference room (level 2): KF5402 .S93 2024
L. Nastasi & D. Pressman, Administrative Law: Principles and Advocacy (Emond, 2024).
A recent U.S. whistleblower lawsuit involving publishers and article processing charges is drawing a lot of attention in the open access and scholarly publishing communities. In late July 2026, Retraction Watch, a well-known and respected blog in the scientific and academic communities, published a post about a court case that alleges four major publishers committed fraud against the U.S. government by over-charging for open access article publishing fees (aka Article Processing Charges (APCs)): Federal lawsuit accuses four major publishers of extorting article processing charges.
The court case turns the spotlight on a decades-long tension between federal open access publishing mandates and publisher fees that impact compliance. Over the years, many academic institutions have attempted to mitigate the resulting pressure on federally-funded researchers through APC discounts and support funds commonly managed through the Library. Persistent challenges with the APC model, however, have affected faculty perspectives on, and engagement with, open access publishing. Despite its small sample size, a 2023 study published by Heidi M. Winkler, Associate Librarian for Digital Services, Texas Tech University, captured pervasive responses to APCs that are familiar to open scholarship practitioners and supporters: “Open Access APCs Are Already a Scam”: Knowledge and Opinions of Open Access and Article Processing Charges From Faculty at a Large Public University.
Juan Pablo Alperin, plaintiff of the APC-centered lawsuit, is a professor at Simon Fraser University, codirector of the Scholarly Communications Lab based in Vancouver, and the Associate Director of Research for the Public Knowledge Project (of which UBC is a long-time contributor). While the case is likely to take years, the topic of APCs continues to drive discussions about the financial barriers of open access publishing. This year’s Open Access Week Theme “The Cost of Knowledge” lists APCs as one of many examples of the commodification of research that invite closer examination and collective action.
View our list of resources below to learn more about APCs, open access, and UBC Library open scholarship services.
Blog posts about Article Processing Charges (APCs) and Green OA
Whistleblower Suit Accuses Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley, and Informa of Defrauding US Over APCs. CASRAI. Published August 25, 2026. Accessed September 9, 2026.
Should Junior Researchers Pay Their Own Article Processing Charge? A Career-Stage Guide. CASRAI. Published August 24, 2026. Accessed September 9, 2026.
Get Started with Green OA. cIRcle Blog. Updated July 2, 2026.
Coalition Publica’s Position and Recommendations Regarding the Draft, Revised Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publication. Published April 11, 2025. Accessed September 9, 2026.
Listen to a podcast, watch an expert talk, or register for UBC’s Open Scholarship program
We Are Enough: Practical Open Access for Everyone. Three leading open access experts Sarah Lamdan, Samuel Moore, and Peter Suber share their expertise in this 2025 Open Access Week panel hosted and recorded by University of Pennsylvania Libraries.
Creative Commons Open Minds Podcast. This episode features SPARC Executive Director, Heather Joseph, discussing open access advocacy and why it matters.
Open Access Week at UBC. Explore 15 years of recordings in cIRcle about a range of open access topics including AI, invisible labour, and community-led action.
Program for Open Scholarship and Education (POSE). UBC’s free online three month flexible and blended program that will help you develop foundational knowledge of Open Scholarship, Open Education, and Open Research.
As of October 14, 2026, SAE Mobilus has rate limited UBC’s access due to excessive downloading of over 100 articles.
We are investigating.
Please remember that most resources have limits on what can be downloaded during one session. Almost all vendors have internal benchmarks that make allowances for reasonable use – usually what a person can reasonably read.
When Pedestal was launched in September 1969 by the Vancouver Women’s Caucus (VWC), it was Canada’s first feminist periodical. VWC emerged from the New Left student-led political movement at Simon Fraser University in the late 60s, a culture that valued direct action, anti-authoritarianism, and social non-conformity and promoted causes like civil rights, Black Power, gay rights, worker’s rights, and women’s liberations.
In 1969, abortion was legalized in Canada by Bill C-150, but restrictions continued to impede access in practice. VWC famously initiated the Abortion Caravan, which travelled from Vancouver to Ottawa in the spring of 1970. This national demonstration shut down Parliament for the first time in history and is considered to have launched second-wave feminist activism within Canada. Pedestal prominently featured pro-choice political activism from the start, as seen on the cover of one of the first issues below.
VWC’s other major organizational priorities were child care, equal pay, and access to contraception, which are all reflected in Pedestal, as well. Pedestal has a distinctly socialist, pro-labour leaning, promoting the Working Women’s Union and advocating for women’s labour to be fairly valued and compensated. The newspaper was published until 1975, variously subtitled “A Women’s Liberation Newspaper,” “The Vancouver Women’s Liberation Newspaper, and “A Lesbian-Feminist Newspaper” throughout the years.
Kinesis was published from 1974 to 2001 by the Vancouver Status of Women (VSW) and was the longest running feminist periodical in Canada. VSW was founded in 1971 with the aim of ensuring implementation of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women (RCSW) recommendations. RCSW had helped legitimate women’s social and economic standing as a significant problem for the nation. The RCSW Report specified equal pay, maternity leave, day care, contraception, family law, financial independence, and opportunities for educational and employment advances for women as paths forward to eliminate gender inequality.
Kinesis, with the subtitle “News you won’t see in the dailies,” was officially established as a forum for feminist perspectives and platformed activists opposing sexism, racism, antisemitism, homophobia, classism, imperialism, ableism, and other forms of oppression. Kinesis featured local, national, and international feminist issues. Although Kinesis’ last issue was published in 2001, VSW continued to actively support marginalized communities in the Lower Mainland. They currently offer grant funding for grassroots initiatives.
RCSW, like many products of first- and second-wave feminism, has been fairly criticized for excluding Indigenous women and other marginalized voices and enshrining white liberal perspectives as the foundation of the national feminist movement. However, we see through Kinesis how the monolithic idea of womanhood has been challenged from the start. Looking back at both Pedestal and Kinesis, we see imperfect representation, reflecting the largely white, privileged backgrounds of the activists involved in their parent organizations, as well as efforts made to uplift the most marginalized voices: BIPOC and LGBTQ women, immigrant workers, and incarcerated individuals, among others. The archives of these two periodicals are a valuable record of how feminist activism has evolved over the years.
You can explore full issues of both of these newspapers in Open Collections!
https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/pedestal
https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/kinesis
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Ann, M. (2026, March 30). Vancouver Status of Women: Community action grants. SmartGrant. https://smartgrant.ca/2026/03/30/vancouver-status-of-women-community-action-grants/
Bunjun, B. (2018). The making of a colonial archive: The Royal Commission on the Status of Women. Education as Change, 22(2), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.25159/1947-9417/3609
Dattan, G. & Schmidt, J. (2015). Vancouver Status of Women. Vancouver Status of Women: UBC Archives. https://blogs.ubc.ca/vswarchives/vancouver-status-of-women/
Sethna, C. & Hewitt, S. (2009). Clandestine operations: The vancouver Women’s caucus, the abortion caravan, and the RCMP. The Canadian Historical Review, 90(3), 463-495. https://doi.org/10.1353/can.0.0189
Lexier, R. (2009). How did the Canadian women’s liberation movement emerge from the sixties student movements? the case of Simon Fraser University. Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000: Edited by Kathryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin, 13(2), 85. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/how-did-canadian-womens-liberation-movement/docview/2847850273/se-2
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