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UVic Scholarly Communication
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Copyright & Scholarly Communications @ University of Victoria Libraries
Advancing #OpenEducation, spotlighting innovative #UVic research, and decoding scholarly info policies. Follow for academic insights, news & updates.

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🚨 New issue alert! Anthropologica Vol. 67 No. 1 (2025) is out now.

#Infrastructure is no longer invisible. This issue traces the stories, timelines, and tensions embedded in #Canada’s roads, grids, and extractive projects. 🔗 buff.ly/pPmrwX6

#Anthropology #ClimateJustice
Promotional graphic from UVic Publishing Services announcing a new issue of Anthropologica, Volume 67, Number 1 (2025), titled “Narratives and Temporalities of Infrastructure: The Canadian Experience.” The journal cover features an aerial photo of a rural highway interchange, emphasizing infrastructure complexity. Text reads: “NEW FROM UVIC PUBLISHING SERVICES — Narratives and Temporalities of Infrastructure: The Canadian Experience — Vol. 67 No. 1 (2025) — ANTHROPOLOGICA.”
November 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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The IJCYFS Special Issue is here—guest edited by James P. Anglin, Shemine A. Gulamhusein & Alexander Schneider. Featuring papers from the FICE-International 35th World Congress, Split, Croatia (Oct 2024).
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#IJCYFS #ChildYouthFamily #GlobalCare
Graphic for a 2025 special issue of International Journal of Child, Youth & Family Studies, featuring papers from the FICE-International 35th World Congress in Split, Croatia. Theme: “Shaping Tomorrow’s Care for Children And Youth.” Crumpled paper background, bold colorful text, UVic ePublishing branding.
November 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Borders in the 21st century—Vol. 2025 of The BIG_Review explores policy, poetry, and resistance. From EU–Ukraine relations to the US–Mexico wall, this issue is packed with critical insight.
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Cover and promotional graphic for Borders in Globalization Review, Volume 6, Number 2 (2025). The journal cover features a desert landscape bisected by a long border fence, emphasizing territorial division. A red box displays the journal’s logo. Text highlights the issue’s theme: “Academic and artistic explorations of borders in the 21st century,” with a special focus on Europe, Russia, and borders with Ukraine.
November 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Drawing on critical race and postcolonial feminist scholarship, Vol. 7 of Migration, Mobility, & Displacement offers urgent analysis of anti-Asian racism. Guest edited by Xiaobei Chen & Jiyoung Lee-An.
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#UVicResearch #OpenAccess #CriticalRaceTheory
Promotional graphic for Migration, Mobility, & Displacement, Volume 7, Number 1 (2025), themed “Analyzing and Resisting Anti-Asian Racism.” The journal cover shows a collage of protest photos with signs reading “Stop Asian Hate,” “We Belong,” and other messages advocating racial justice. The right side includes publication details and UVic ePublishing branding
November 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Revolutions, Noriega, Hypatia, and airborne invasions—Volume 4 of The Ascendant Historian is stacked. @uvic.ca history undergrads dig deep into turning points that shaped the world. Read the full issue here: journals.uvic.ca/index.php/co... #UVic #HistoryJournal
Promotional image for "The Ascendant Historian, Volume 4," UVic's Undergraduate History Journal. Two hands hold the journal against a green background. The cover shows a black-and-white photo of a pyramid under a dramatic sky. A blue banner on the left reads "New from UVic Publishing Services," followed by the journal title and description.
September 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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✨ Taylor and Travis might be saying “I do,” but at UVic Libraries, we’re saying “I do not pay for textbooks.” 💸📚
Check the link in our bio for the full list.

#WeSaidYes #ZeroTextbookCosts #UVicLibraries
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are pictured in a tender moment, with their foreheads touching and smiling at each other. Text is overlayed on the image: next to Travis Kelce, the words "UVic students" appear, and next to Taylor Swift, the phrase "zero-cost textbooks from the library" is displayed.
August 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Curious what open science looks like in practice? UVic's Monique Grenier introduces the new Open Science Community of Victoria (OSCV)—a space for researchers to connect around openness, collaboration & reproducibility.
🧪 Read more on the #ScholCom blog: rb.gy/ea8i6w
#OpenScience #OSCV #UVic
Logo for the Open Science Community Victoria (OSCV). The design features a stylized peacock feather on the left and a circular icon resembling three abstract human figures in blue and green forming the letter "O" in "OSCV." Below the acronym, the full name is written: "Open Science Community Victoria."
June 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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What does #resistance look like now?
What does #justice owe the past?

The new issue of #OnPolitics dives into power, identity, and inheritance—six standout essays from UVic undergrads.

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#StudentJournals #PoliticalScience #GlobalPolitics
Promotional image for the Spring 2025 issue of On Politics, UVic’s undergraduate political science journal. On the left, text reads: “New from UVic ePublishing Services. On Politics (Spring 2025) – UVic Undergraduates of Political Science.” On the right, a person holds the journal, which has a blue and white cover featuring a hand cradling the Earth. The issue is labeled Volume 18, Issue I, Spring 2025.
June 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Intergenerational resilience lives on—quietly powerful, ever present. Fred Chou, co-editor of Stories That Shape Us, reflects on the enduring strength carried through generations.

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#StoriesThatShapeUs #Resilience #ChineseCanadian #CommunityVoices
A textured green background with an elegant line drawing of a ginkgo branch in bright yellow, stretching diagonally across the image. At the bottom is a quote in white serif text that reads: “Intergenerational resilience has an enduring and everlasting quality to it; that despite circumstances that may muddle its presence, it continues in a boundless and fervent way.” — Fred Chou
June 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Stories That Shape Us shares the voices of Chinese Canadian families, exploring how resilience is carried across generations—through memory, story, and community.

📖 Free to read on UVicSpace
📚 Print via UVic Bookstore

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#OpenAccess #Resilience #ChineseCanadian
Promotional graphic for a new open-access book from UVic ePublishing Services. The book cover, centered in the image, features hand-drawn yellow ginkgo leaves against a pale background. The title of the book is Stories That Shape Us: Narratives of Intergenerational Resilience and Chinese Canadian Families. Authors listed are Fred Chou, Carmen Huang, Mikaela Chia, and Wendy Ma. Above the book cover is a yellow banner with white text that reads: “New from UVic ePublishing Services.” Below the cover, the book title and subtitle are repeated in large yellow and white text on a textured green background. Beige background with a soft, floral line drawing in pale gold behind centered text. The text reads: “This book holds stories of resilience—passed down, rediscovered, and re-shared within Chinese Canadian families. ——— Four family dyads. Four journeys through memory. Each story developed through collaborative research—with care, consent, and kinship. ——— Memory is more than the past. It’s something we tend. Something we carry together.” At the bottom: Stories That Shape Us
June 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Snowy owl numbers in Canada have dropped nearly 40%. A new blog post explores why, and how UVic’s Dr. Louise Blight is helping raise the alarm. 🦉

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#SnowyOwl #ArcticConservation #OpenAccess #UVicResearch
June 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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This Indigenous People's Month, @big-lab.bsky.social is hosting a series of sessions led by Indigenous leaders, scholars, and policy-makers. If you're interested, the sessions are available both online and in person! You can register here: biglobalization.org/summer/indig...
Image shows people at a march for Indigenous rights. Text reads: Summer institutes. Indigenous Internationalisms and Border Crossings. Explore how Indigenous nations are expressing their relationships to land and waters through complex diplomacies and forms of engagement. Register now to attend online or in person at the University of Victoria, BC. 28-30 Jul 2025. Borders in Globalization.
June 3, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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#UVicintheNews: Arctic cod grunt—and UVic scientists are listening. Dr. Francis Juanes and his team are using fish vocalizations to track Arctic cod and unlock conservation insights. Dive deeper (and hear #TheCodcast):
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May 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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#UVicintheNews: Bill 15 could fast-track B.C. development—but at what cost? UVic's Dr. Gerald Singh (Environmental Studies, @oceancensus.bsky.social) warns it may erode safeguards and sideline #Indigenous voices. #bcpoli #uvic
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May 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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#UVicintheNews 💤 Is 8 hours really the magic number? Maybe not. A new international study led by UVic’s @christineou.bsky.social finds that the “ideal” amount of #sleep varies by culture—and aligning with those norms may be better for your health. 👉 onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/scholarlycom...
May 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Interested in discussing how border management is shifting? @big-lab.bsky.social are hosting two free, in-depth Q&A-style sessions in the month of May!
Borders in Globalization Upcoming Events
May 1, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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#UVicintheNews: What's the future of the Hudson's Bay Company? Dr. Mark Colgate from @uvic.ca's Gustavson School of Business offers insightful perspectives on the HBC's path forward in this new blog post. onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/scholarlycom... #HudsonBayCompany #RetailTrends
March 14, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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This week on the #ScholComBlog, @uvicscience.bsky.social's Benjamin Neal discusses what the "evil-looking" worms see off the coast of Esquimalt were, and why they're there! Read more here: onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/scholarlycom...
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March 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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UVic Political Science's @wgreaves.bsky.social underlines the need for a transformative shift in how Canada and its allies view the U.S. in this weeks #ScholComBlog post! Read more here: tinyurl.com/mvzjyekp
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Picture of North America on an old globe. Text reads: Joly Warns that Canada is the “Canary in the Coal Mine”. UVic in the News. Photo by Lara Jameson.
March 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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#UVicintheNews: #SubstanceUVic is raising awareness about drug testing and supporting the community! Read more about their invaluable work here on the #ScholCom blog: onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/scholarlycom... @uviccisur.bsky.social
February 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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#UVicintheNews: @uvic.ca's Dr. Tamara Krawchenko dives into the effects of Vancouver's latest tariff response on local industries & trade. Check out the details on our #ScholCom blog! 🌐📈 onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/scholarlycom...
February 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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The the Open/Technology in Education, Society, and Scholarship Association (OTESSA) Conference has put out their call for proposals! Get yours in by March 1, 2025. All submissions only require 250-500 words, and research and practice options are available. Learn more here: otessa.org/2025/
#OTESSA25
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February 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Uvic Social Sciences's Dr. Brian Starzomski discusses the importance of collaborative research between Indigenous land stewards and scientists in our most recent #ScholComBlog post! 🦢 Read more here: tinyurl.com/ye5nkb7w
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February 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Dr. Reuben Rose-Redwood from @uvicgeography.bsky.social examines the Google Maps renaming issue in the Gulf of Mexico, emphasizing the political impact of place names on public perception. Explore his insights on the significance of these changes: https://buff.ly/4hioKz9
February 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Dr. Kate Field from @uvicgeography.bsky.social studied eco-tourism's effect on grizzly bears in BC's Bella Coola Valley. Her research shows eco-tourism can coexist with wildlife, reducing conflicts and aiding conservation strategies. Learn more: https://buff.ly/40X1uRp 🌿🐻
February 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM