News @ UNB Libraries

The Harriet Irving Library is happy to host two Open Access Town Hall sessions next week. Facilitated by the Scholarly Communications Librarian, Mike Nason, each session will include the following:

• An overview of the Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications (CIHR, NSERC, SSHRC)
• An update on the UNB Scholar Research Repository
• An overview of resources related to Open Access that are available to scholars
• An open-floor discussion about issues related to open access, publishing, and resources for researchers

If you’d like to share your experience with author pay fees, talk about predatory publishing, or even just ask a few clarifying questions about where to find funding agency policies, you’re more than welcome to come.

Attendance is open to any UNB students, faculty, or researchers interested in Open Access.

Choose from two sessions:

Harriet Irving Library, Milham Room (HIL 100)
Tuesday, 10 November 2015 (10:00-11:30am)
Thursday, 12 November 2015 (2:30-4:00pm)

Flu Season is here!

Get your flu vaccine at the HIL Flu Clinic:

When:  Friday, Nov. 6th

9:00 am – 3:00 pm

Where:  Reading Room (Rm. 109), Harriet Irving Library, UNBF

Cost:  $15 for students, $25 for faculty and staff

Please note that you will be required to wait for 20 minutes following your injection for your own safety!

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In addition to the HIL Flu Clinic, flu shots are now available at the Student Health Centre and at one of the following clinics on campus:

• Wednesday, Oct 28th: 9:00am – 3:00pm at UNB Student Union Building – basement near food vendors

• Thursday, Oct 29th: 12:00pm – 3:00pm at Head Hall – Gillin Hall D108

• Friday, Oct 30th: 9:00am – 3:00pm at STU –  J.B. O’Keefe Fitness Centre

• Wednesday, Nov 4th: 9:00am – 3:00pm at University Bookstore

• Thursday, Nov 5th: 12:00pm – 3:00pm at Human Resources Dept., Rm 106 (near HR in Physics & Admin Building)

Cost: $15 for students, $25 for staff and faculty.

Some people may qualify for free flu immunization.

We can only accept cash or cheque at the time of the injection!

Be prepared to wait 20 minutes AFTER your injection.

The REDress Project is a work by artist Jaime Black which focuses on the issue of missing or murdered Aboriginal women across Canada. The art installation project is an aesthetic response to this critical national issue, through which the artist hopes to “draw attention to the gendered and racialized nature of violent crimes against Aboriginal women and to evoke a presence through the marking of absence” (excerpt from The REDress Project).

The artist Jaime Black will be giving a public talk on Monday, October 26, at the Mi’kmaq-Wolastoqey Centre in Marshall d’Avery Hall, room 356, at 12 pm.

The dresses will be on display in the Harriet Irving Library Commons Cafe from Tuesday, October 27th until Friday, November 6th.

For more information about The REDress Project, please see the following links:

The REDress Project

STU Campus Events: The REDress Project – Public Artist Talk With Jaime Black and Art Installation

University of New Brunswick: Honouring Our Sisters

UNB Libraries would like to remind students, faculty, and staff that ITS has scheduled a significant IT service interruption on Saturday night, Oct. 24, for a 6-hour period (9:00 PM Saturday – 3:00 AM Sunday).

The outage will affect a wide range of services for F & SJ on-campus users, including network traffic to and from off-campus. For library patrons, this will mean an interruption in access to all library websites and services (including the proxy server, and any of our licensed eResources) for the duration of the outage.

Full details can be found in the notice, here:

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We apologize for any inconvenience during the outage, and thank you for your patience.

UNB Libraries are happy to celebrate Open Access Week!

Open Access Week is an annual, global event celebrating and promoting open access initiatives throughout the academic and research community. During the week, groups ranging from librarians to researchers, students, communities of practice, and professional organizations use the opportunity to spread the word about how open access not only has the potential to benefit researchers, but change the way we disseminate knowledge.

This year, we’ve decided to use the occasion to announce upcoming Open Access Town Hall events. By the end of November, we hope to host two events hosted by our Scholarly Communications Librarian, Mike Nason, where he will speak about the Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications, developments with the UNB Scholar Research Repository, and then open the floor up for a general discussion on Open Access issues such as Author’s Rights, mandates, where to find journal/publisher policies, predatory publishers, and many more subjects.

In the spirit of OA week, here are some excellent resources promoting open access literacy, and some tools for faculty/staff/students.

– Open Access @ UNB

Open Access Literacy

– Peter Suber’s Overview of Open Access // Peter Suber is one of the most respected figures in OA. This overview serves as an excellent starting point for OA literacy.
– Open Access Explained – Piled Higher and Deeper // A tremendously relevant and accessible video about OA by the creators of PhD Comics.

Publishing Tools and Resources

– SHERPA/RoMEO // A database of journal OA policies to help determine the rights of authors to directly share or otherwise make their work available outside of the publication.
– Think Check Submit // A resource for authors to help researchers identify trusted journals for their publications.
– The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Research Coalition (SPARC) // A respected resource for protecting both author’s rights and copyright.

The pizza is free and the workshop just might prove invaluable!

Why do we cite? What does citation have to do with plagiarism? This FREE workshop will help you to understand the importance of citations in your academic writing and will teach you how to use them properly.  You’ll get some practice identifying plagiarism, some tips to keep your work clean, and a couple of FREE SLICES OF PIZZA to top it off!

Wednesday, October 28th, 2015
11:30am-1:00pm
Milham Room (100)
Harriet Irving Library
UNB Fredericton Campus

Pizza and Plagiarism is a joint initiative offered by UNB Libraries and the UNBF Student Union.

No pre-registration required.  Just show up, learn, and eat!