University libraries and university presses are key components of the scholarly communication process. Over the past decade there have been huge changes in scholarly publishing, reading and the relationship between presses and libraries. Many factors have influenced the change in scholarly communication and institutional responses reflect experiences within individual situations. The new digita...

As part of the University of British Columbia’s federally funded research initiative to improve the scholarly and public quality of academic publishing on a global basis, the Public Knowledge Project has released Open Journal Systems (OJS). This is open source software that can be freely downloaded. The intent is to help journals and scholarly societies seriously consider publishing in an open ...

As Dr. Peggy L. Chinn, editor for Advances in Nursing Science has stated, “as the hundreds-year long pandemic of racism seems to be coming a point reckoning, significant numbers individuals and groups are turning away from denial examining ways which systemic is sustained, even promoted” (Chinn, 2020Chinn P. Addressing scholarly publishing.Advances Science. 2020; 43: 291PubMed Google Scholar, p...