University Press Week 2016: The People in Our Neighborhood

14 November 2016 AAUP Blog Tour

We’re thrilled to once again be one of over 40 presses participating in this years UP Week Blog Tour. Each day this week, presses will be blogging on a different theme that highlights the value of collaboration among the scholarly community. Each day, we will round up of all the university presses that posted on […]

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Further Thoughts on “Social Fates”

7 November 2016 Uncategorized

Written by guest blogger, Margaret Morganroth Gullette @gullette_mm   The history of medical stigma more or less tracks the history of many frightening and fatal communicable diseases, during the period when etiology is unknown, and even after the cause is known, if the disease is long considered incurable. Syphilis, HIV/AIDS, and now Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) […]

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Our Friday Feature for #OAWeek is on Canadian Public Policy!

28 October 2016 Events and Conferences

Our final feature for Open Access Week 2016 is dedicated to Canadian Public Policy (CPP), Canada’s foremost journal examining economic and social policy! The aim of the journal is to stimulate research and discussion of public policy problems in Canada. It is a great resource for a wide readership including decision makers and advisers in […]

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Today’s OA Week Feature is on IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics!

27 October 2016 Events and Conferences

Today, we continue our celebration of Open Access Week 2016 by shining the spotlight on IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, which offers a ton of OA content!   IJFAB is the leading forum in bioethics for feminist thought and debate. The journal welcomes feminist scholarship from any discipline on ethical issues related […]

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Up Next for OA Week is the National Gallery of Canada Review!

26 October 2016 Events and Conferences

Today, we are shining the spotlight on another fully open access journal in our collection, the National Gallery of Canada Review (NGCR)!   Originally published in print from 2000 to 2008, the NGCR is a vibrant online, open access resource that features the investigations and scholarly engagements of prominent curators and art historians with the […]

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An Interview with Allyson Stevenson, the recipient of the 2016 Arrell M. Gibson Award

25 October 2016 Uncategorized

An interview with Allyson Stevenson, author of “The Adoption of Frances T: Blood, Belonging, and Aboriginal Transracial Adoption in Twentieth-Century Canada.” For excellence in Native American History, this article was given the 2016 Arrell M. Gibson Award from the Western Historical Association. Stevenson’s article appeared in the Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d’histoire, and the […]

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Coming Up Next for OA Week 2016: The Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health!

25 October 2016 Events and Conferences

The next journal we are featuring for Open Access Week 2016 is the Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health (JMVFH), one of our fully open access journals!   The Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health (JMVFH) is the official, peer-reviewed, scholarly journal of the Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health Research (CIMVHR). […]

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Happy International Open Access Week 2016!

24 October 2016 Events and Conferences

To kick off Open Access Week 2016, we are very excited to announce that in keeping with this year’s theme of taking action to open up research and scholarship, we will be making the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture fully open access for the entire week!   The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture […]

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Coming Soon: International Open Access Week 2016!

21 October 2016 Events and Conferences

International Open Access Week 2016 is fast approaching! We are looking forward to celebrating and bringing awareness to the benefits of openness in scholarly communication.   Open Access promotes and provides free and immediate online access to scholarly research, which in turn helps to elevate the visibility of scholarship as a whole. Today, Open Access […]

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Making the First World ‘click’: A Problem of Perspectives

20 October 2016 Contributor Blog

Written by guest blogger, Geoff Keelan Something just never clicked about Canada’s First World War history. Beyond the divides of French and English languages, of social and political history, and other disagreements that weave throughout most Canadian historical fields, something always seemed to be missing. It was a total war that engulfed the country, but […]

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