Erin Fields
UBC Library Open Education Impact & Activity Report 2024-2025
UBC Library’s Open Education services seek to support the UBC community in finding, adapting, and creating high-quality open educational resources, as well as planning and implementing innovative Open Education projects and Open Practices. UBC Library’s Open Education services play an active role in moving forward UBC Vancouver Library’s Strategic Framework vision of, …leading and collaborating to advance open scholarship… […]
BCcampus Pressbooks Editing Function Down
Books on opentextbc.ca and pressbooks.bccampus.ca are available for viewing and downloading only. Authors are not currently able to make changes to their books. BCcampus’s IT team is completing necessary upgrades to the Pressbooks networks to improve security and prevent similar future outages. The hope is to restore edit access for all Pressbooks authors within the next two weeks (June […]
Open Access Article Publishing at UBC: Annual Report
The Scholarly Communications and Copyright Office has released the 2023/24 Open Access Article Publishing at UBC Report. This report provides an overview of yearly open access (OA) article publishing trends at UBC and seeks to increase transparency around financial conditions for OA article publishing, and to highlight the impact of publisher negotiations on OA at […]
AMS Announces Call for 2025 Nominations for UDL and OER Champions
AMS Announces Call for 2025 Nominations for OER Champions and the NEW UDL Champions! The Alma Mater Society (AMS) is excited to introduce the new Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Champions Award, in addition to the annual Open Educational Resources (OER) Champions Award. The nomination form is now available for UBC students and community […]
Call for Survey Participants – Canadian Indigenous Perspectives on OER
This research seeks to identify workflows, practices, and unique barriers involved in developing Canadian Indigenous OER.
UBC Library research project explores Indigenous perspectives in open education resource development
UBC librarians are embarking on a new collaborative research project that aims to address a fundamental problem in how open educational practices approach Indigenous Knowledges, and instead replicate colonial concepts of ownership and knowledge transfer.
Open Scholarship in Practice 2022
Join us for webinars and presentations exploring the practice of open scholarship.
UBC Library Open Education Impact & Activity Report – 2021/2022
Find out about the open education projects, events, and services offered by UBC Library Vancouver and Okanagan campuses in 2021/2022.
New! UBC Open Text Publishing Guide
The UBC Library has created an Open Text Publishing Guide to help authors navigate the process of creating a text.
