Taylor & Francis Evidence Based Acquisition Program for 2022

The library is doing a new Evidence Based Acquisition program with Taylor and Francis. Students and faculty will have free access to over 33,000 high-quality academic e-books published from 2016 to 2020.  In December 2022, we'll decide which ones to buy for our permanent collection.

Try them out here.

Subject coverage includes:

Archaeology Art History Asian Studies Classical Studies Construction Creative and Media Arts Criminology Economics Education Energy Engineering, General English Language & Linguistics Environment & Sustainability General Reference Geography

Health Studies History Language Learning Literature Media and Communication Middle East Philosophy Politics Psychology Security Sociology Sport Theatre & Performing Arts Tourism Urban Planning

Posted by Patti Wilson, Dec. 22, 2021

MLA Handbook Plus Online

 

We’ve just joined an unlimited user license for a new online version of the MLA Handbook.  Here’s some information from the vendor:

The cornerstone of MLA Handbook Plus is the ninth edition of the MLA Handbook, released in print in spring 2021. The ninth edition was created in direct, sustained dialogue with the instructors, librarians, and students around the world who use the handbook every day. A comprehensive reference work and textbook, the new handbook features

• 400 pages 
• seven chapters, three of which are devoted to documentation 
• 142 visual examples
• over 500 sample citations  
• two appendixes
• a comprehensive index

To connect, go to https://libguides.ufv.ca/databases/mlahandbookplus

For a User Guide, go to https://mlahandbookplus.org/pages/how-to-use

Posted by: Patti Wilson, Dec. 22, 2021

LIBRARIES CLOSING EARLY TUESDAY NIGHT!

Due to the freezing rain, the libraries are closing early tonight (Tuesday Dec 21).

The Chilliwack library is closing immediately.

The Abbotsford library will close by 7pm OR EARLIER, if conditions continue to deteriorate.

Posted by Brenda

Library Hours Changes

It is the season for changes to the UFV Library hours!

Dec 22 and 23: 8:30-4:30
Dec 24: 8:30-noon and closed through to, and including, January 3rd
January 4th: 8:30-4:30. 

January 5th, the first day of Winter Semester, the library will begin our usual hours. 

See complete details here.

Wishing everyone a safe and happy holiday!

Posted by Brenda

Library Hours -- Changes

Dec. 10/21 UPDATE: Library hours have returned to normal seasonal operations.

Due to the current weather and road conditions, both the Abbotsford and Chilliwack UFV Libraries have some reduced hours for the remainder of the week. (Hours for December 6th and later will be determined next week.)

 Chilliwack will be closing at 6pm Wednesday and Thursday night and will be closed on Saturday.

Abbotsford will be closing at 8pm on Wednesday and Thursday night.

For updated and complete hours, please look here: https://library.ufv.ca/about-the-library/library-hours/

We also continue to monitor our email for circulation questions: circabb@ufv.ca Research help is also available online via email and AskAway: https://library.ufv.ca/research-help-guides/ask-a-librarian/

Please stay safe and take care!

Posted by Brenda

 

UFV Libraries Plan to be Open Reduced Hours on Wednesday November 17

 Unless circumstances change, both the Abbotsford and Chilliwack UFV Libraries plan to be open for reduced hours tomorrow, Wednesday, November 17th. We will be open 8:30AM to 6PM. We also continue to monitor our email for circulation questions: circabb@ufv.ca Research help is also available online via email and AskAway: https://library.ufv.ca/research-help-guides/ask-a-librarian/

Stay safe!

Posted by Brenda

Returning library items

During this difficult time of campus closures, road closures, and extremely challenging weather, you may be concerned about returning your library items. 

The book drops are open, so you can return items. Items that were checked out in Abbotsford can be returned to Chilliwack and vice versa. However, if it is not safe to do so, please consider the following options:

• Self renew your items online using "My Library Account" on the library homepage
  
• If you are out of recalls or need assistance, you can contact the library at circabb@ufv.ca to ask about renewing, as long as there isn't a recall on the item. 
• Wait and return items when it is safer to do so. We will be back dating returned items to Friday November 12th.

 Posted by Brenda

Libraries closing at 1pm Nov 15

 Due to this crazy weather and dangerous road conditions, the Chilliwack and Abbotsford UFV libraries are closing at 1pm today, November 15. Please note that our online resources (ebooks and article databases) remain available. There will be some reference assistance (via email and AskAway) as long as power remains on!

Take care and stay safe!

Posted by Brenda

Libraries closed on November 11

Both the Abbotsford and Chilliwack UFV libraries will be closed on November 11th for Remembrance Day. Please remember that we have many resources available online, including journals and ebooks.

Posted by Brenda

Announcing the Open Education Micro Grant Program

Recently funded through UFV’s Strategic Initiatives Fund, the UFV Library and Teaching and Learning Centre are excited to announce a new Open Education Micro Grant Program (OEMG) for 2021-22.  This program is designed to support faculty adapting and developing open education resources (OERs) that will be used in UFV courses and beyond.  Funding will be allocated to hire Open Education Student Assistants who will work under faculty mentorship to complete tasks that lead to the creation or adaptation of OE resources.  These tasks may include Pressbooks conversions, editing and revision, image and interactive item creation, formation of test banks, or other tasks.  Successful faculty project proposals will receive funding for 100-150 student hours ($2500 per project).  Our hope is that this fund will promote the increased use of OERs at UFV and build faculty capacity for OER development and adaptation.  The OEMG will also provide significant experiential value to student hires by allowing them to develop transferrable and knowledge specific skills that they can use in their programs and into their careers following graduation.  The formal Call for Proposals will be issued on 15 November 2021 with a closing date of 28 January 2022.  The funding period for successful applicants is April – August 2022. For more information on the Open Education Micro Grant program please contact Martin Warkentin or Claire Hay.

Downloading from American Chemical Society and Wiley

Both of these platforms are having issues with the way you get access from off campus. They are using a software called CloudFlare that sees our users as a malicious attack. Therefore people are getting blocked and unable to download their content. Unfortunately there is no easy fix at the moment so the best way to get content is to come to campus to download your journal articles.

Posted by Diane Cruickshank, October 28, 2021

UFV Library welcomes a new University Librarian

We are pleased and honoured to welcome our new University Librarian, Camille Callison. Camille will be returning to British Columbia after several years at the University of Manitoba, as the Indigenous Services and later Indigenous Strategies Librarian. A full announcement is available on the UFV Today blog, at https://blogs.ufv.ca/blog/2021/06/camille-callison-appointed-university-librarian/

 

 

Posted by Patti Wilson, June 30, 2021

Retirement of Kim Isaac, University Librarian

We are sadly approaching our last few weeks with Kim Isaac as our University Librarian. Kim’s connections to UFV are longstanding, starting here as a student in the 1970’s. In 1989 she became an instructor and Program Head for the Library and Information Technology Program. She has been our UL since 2000, and has led the library with grace and integrity.

During this time, Kim oversaw the building of the new library at the Canada Education Park, the renovation of the Abbotsford Campus library in 2017, and the CEP Library renovation in 2020.  She guided the library in its transition from university college to full university status, overseeing our growth in budget, staffing and services. She has always worked with the librarians and library technicians with compassion and caring. She fully understands how essential it is to balance one`s personal and working lives to reach our potential.  Kim is a strong supporter of the library’s indigenization activities. She uses her fundamental concern for the best interests of students and faculty to guide her policies and decision-making.

Kim has been an advocate for the library and represented the library on a number of UFV committees, including Senate, Academic Planning and Priorities Committee, Academic Continuity and the Senior Academic Leadership Team. In addition, Kim has provided professional expertise and leadership to the wider academic library community, in a variety of roles.  The UFV Library has benefitted tremendously from our memberships in regional and national consortia, providing us with collection and service opportunities that we would never have afforded otherwise. These organizations depend on the service of committed members to operate, develop and grow, and Kim has contributed greatly to this through her knowledge, professionalism and commitment to the vision of these consortia.

In recognition of her many contributions and 33 years of dedicated service to UFV, Kim has been honoured with the designation of Librarian Emeritus.

We’d like to thank Kim for being our outstanding leader and wish her the very best in her upcoming retirement!

Posted by Patti Wilson, June 15, 2021

 

Library Individual Bookable Study Tables

Starting on June 1, the UFV libraries (Abbotsford and Chilliwack) are excited to provide access to a limited number of bookable, individual study tables!

• Monday - Thursday, excluding holidays
• Morning session (9-12) or afternoon session (1-4)

 For more details, check out our Individual Study Tables Booking libguide: https://libguides.ufv.ca/StudyTableBookings

 Posted by Brenda

Publish Open Access Articles in Sage

The University of the Fraser Valley Library is participating in CRKN’s first transformative “read and publish” agreement with Sage.  Sage publishes highly respected journals in a wide range of disciplines, including the humanities and social sciences, science, technology and medicine. 

Through the agreement, authors affiliated with UFV may now publish their articles as open access with no Article Processing Charge (APC) in over 900 Sage Choice Journals.   In addition, the agreement includes a 40% discount on APCs in SAGE’s Gold Open Access Journals.

As Clare Appavoo, Executive Director of CRKN states, “The real success of this agreement is how we continue to work together as a Canadian community to meet our shared goals of transforming scholarly communications. The open access components of the SAGE agreement will make a significant contribution to the discoverability of Canadian research output.”  (Full public announcement)

Here is more information from the Sage website:

"The details of the agreement are as follows:

Subscription journals: Corresponding authors publishing an article in 900+ subscription journals (the 2021 SAGE Premier package) which offer hybrid open access publishing (SAGE Choice) can be published open access, free of charge. Authors do not need to take any action to benefit from this offer. SAGE will contact all eligible authors to inform them of the agreement and invite them to the SAGE Open Access Portal to take up the offer as soon as their accepted article has been received into SAGE’s Production department.  List of Sage Choice Journals with no APC's.

Gold open access journals: Corresponding authors publishing an article in a gold open access journal are also entitled to a 40% discount on the prevailing article processing charge (APC) for that journal. For participating journals view the Gold journal title list. This discount will be applied automatically in the SAGE Open Access Portal. Where an author is eligible for more than one discount, discounts cannot be combined but the highest discount available to the author will be applied to the APC due."

To facilitate open access publishing, processing of the APC waiver for SAGE Choice journals and the discount for gold open access journals is done automatically via the SAGE Open Access Portal (SOAP) when corresponding authors identify themselves as affiliated with UFV. 

SOAP is a dashboard for authors to select a copyright license, assign a bill payer (if applicable), and view article status. A Creative Commons license CC BY will be applied to open access publications unless a different license is requested by the author.

For more information on using SOAP, see:

The SAGE Open Access Portal User Guide for Authors Publishing Open Access in a Subscription Journal  (Sage Choice Journals, No APC Fee)

The SAGE Open Access Portal Guide for Authors Publishing in a Pure Gold Open Access Journal  (40% Discount on APC)

Bill Payer Frequently Asked Questions

For more information on publishing in a Sage Journals, see:  Journal Author Gateway

For more information on other APC discounts, see:  Open Access Publishing LibGuide.

For questions, contact your liaison librarian.

Updated by Patti Wilson, March 24, 2021

Work with Us to Return Library Items

 

The UFV Library would like to remind our users that our book drops at both Chilliwack and Abbotsford are open 24x7, are accessible without entering a building, and that parking is currently free on campus.

• Abbotsford book drop: north entrance of G building
• Chilliwack book drop: south entrance of A building

We strongly encourage our borrowers to return items that they no longer need or to renew items that they are still using. If you need assistance, please contact either library. If you are currently residing outside of the lower mainland, there may be alternative options available to you for returning your library items.

For several months we have been offering Select and Collect, a curbside-like service that allows users to borrow items from our library despite the closure. We want to extend this service to include providing recalls on items that are checked out. To do this, we need your assistance in returning items that you are no longer using.

The library has not charged overdue fines during the pandemic. However, as some items will soon have been out of the library for one year, we need to account for them. Soon we will be processing replacement cost invoices for items that have not been returned or renewed. Students may experience loss of library privileges and inability to register for classes, obtain a transcript, or graduate. Please contact the library to see how we can work together to get items back into our collection.

Take care and stay safe!

posted by Brenda