The Scholarly Communications & Resource Sharing unit develops and supports systems and services that facilitate the creation, dissemination, and preservation of scholarly works throughout the research lifecycle. The unit provides expertise in interlibrary loan (ILL), open scholarship (open educational resources and open repositories), research data management, and knowledge synthesis reviews.
Resource Sharing
Interlibrary Loan - provides library users access to materials (books, articles, microforms) not available in Robertson Library by requesting the materials from other libraries. The Interlibrary Loan staff are Christine MacLauchlan and Dorothy Peters. For further information, contact the ILL Department at 566-0445 or by email ill@upei.ca.
Scholarly Communications
IslandScholar - the University's repository for works by UPEI scholars including student theses, projects and faculty publications.
Open Educational Resources (OERs) - a guide to open educational resources and information about the Open Education Resource (OER) Development Program, including:
- a free, online publishing platform, Pressbooks
- grants for the creation, adaptation, adoption, and review of OERs
- education and resources on OER topics, such as creative commons or finding openly licensed materials
- recognition of UPEI faculty who have selected open textbooks or open educational materials for their course(s) through the Faculty Textbooks Champions
Article Publishing Charges Discounts - Through the Robertson Library's participation in the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) to purchase journal subscriptions, faculty, students, and staff are eligible for discounts on Article Processing Charges (APCs) associated with publishing open access journal articles!
Unit Staff
Keri McCaffrey, One Health and Scholarly Communications Librarian
Phone: 902-620-5418
knmccaffrey@upei.ca
Chris MacLauchlan, Library Technician
Phone: 902-566-0445
cmaclauchlan@upei.ca
Stacey Meenink, Library Technician
Phone: TBD
smeenink@upei.ca