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Open Access Week: Who Owns our Knowledge?

Photo courtesy: Hanne Pearce (CC BY-NC 2.0) This year’s Open Access Week theme – “Who Owns Our Knowledge?” – speaks to the rapid and significant disruption underway in the current open access landscape, requiring nuanced discussion in regards to ownership, control, permissions, and equality. Open UBC and UBC Library are offering numerous free events that […]

Tracing the Evolution of the Library Through UBC Open Collections

As an institution, the library has experienced profound transformations across history. Shifts in technology, education, and social values mean that the library is no longer solely an institution of intellectual discovery, but one of leisure, recreation, and community engagement, too. UBC Open Collections holds many materials which map the history of the library, including catalogues […]