Read to learn about best practices and guidance for reusing copyrighted content in Open Educational Resources under fair dealing, and about a Code of Best Practices in Fair Dealing for Open Educational Resources, published by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL), which can help to provide an alternative approach to using copyrighted materials in your OER.

Ioana Liuta, Digital Scholarship Librarian in Research Commons, in an interview with the keynote speakers for the Bibliometrics and Research Impact Conference (BRIC) 2024, Juan Pablo Alperin and Stefanie Haustein. BRIC was organized and hosted at SFU Vancouver at Harbour Centre, June 5-6, 2024.

SFU Library is pleased to announce the launch of 2 new transformative open access agreements with scholarly publishers. Through our membership in the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN), SFU has recently signed agreements with Elsevier and Oxford University Press.

The Community Scholars Program, initiated and coordinated by SFU Library, provides access to academic publications to employees of charities and non-profits in the local communities of six BC universities. We were able to interview a Community Scholar, in order to gain a glimpse into the perspective of a participant, hear their thoughts on various aspects of the program and the value of accessible research outputs, from the perspective of the non-profit sector.