Call for Feedback on the Draft, Revised Tri-Agency Open Access Policy

Published March 21, 2025 by Alison Moore

Canada’s major research funders, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), also known as the “Tri-Agency” have launched a call for feedback on the Draft, Revised Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications. Though the revised policy is still in draft format, it offers us a useful look at what’s coming for Canadian researchers who receive SSHRC, NSERC, CIHR grants or awards starting on January 1, 2026. Read on for more information about these changes and what they might mean for you.

Fair dealing and OER: Pathways to using copyrighted content

Published October 15, 2024 by Alison Moore

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.

BRIC 2024: a conversation with the keynote speakers

Published September 11, 2024 by Alison Moore

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's commitment to open education

Published September 16, 2022 by Alison Moore

In June 2022, SFU Senate endorsed a statement in support of open educational resources (OER) and open education more broadly, developed by SFU Library with support from the OER Working Group and the Senate Committee on University Teaching and Learning (SCUTL). Read this conversation with Hope Power, Teaching and Learning Librarian at SFU.

Open educational resources (OER) and open pedagogy in the classroom

Published October 25, 2019 by Hope Power

In recent weeks, you may have seen a call for applications to the SFU Open Educational Resources (OER) grants program (note: current deadline is November 7th). This program provides funding of up to $5,000 along with staff support to help faculty members redesign a course to adopt or adapt open textbooks or other OER as their primary course material.

Making Knowledge Public: Student reflections on the 2018 President’s Dream Colloquium

Published February 28, 2019 by Kate Shuttleworth

By Alice Fleerackers

Changing the academic system to be more accessible

“You shouldn’t have to pay a large sum of tuition to have access to basic information,” Melissa Roach says when I ask her what she’d like to change about our academic system. “It just creates layers of mediation between scholars, media and the public, and that disconnect can cause a lot of misunderstanding.”

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