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Leddy Library moves to a new platform for Scholarship@UWindsor

In Winter 2025, the Leddy Library announced that the University of Windsor is joining a growing national network of Canadian universities on Scholaris—a community-supported, open-source institutional repository hosted by the Ontario Council of University Libraries’ (OCUL) Scholar’s Portal.

Depositing and Sharing Datasets for Preservation in Borealis

Join us Thursday, April 24 for a webinar about archiving your dataset for long term preservation and to making it discoverable for other researchers to reuse. Learn about all the benefits of archiving data and the data repository options available to you!

We will also cover the Tri Agency data deposit mandate rollout (including other mandates from journal publishers) and discuss the Open Science principle of making data as, "Open As Possible, Closed as Necessary" (Horizon Europe).

Green Open Access (OA) Day

Today (March 17, 2025) is Green Open Access Day, a time to celebrate and promote the importance and benefits of green open access (OA). Green OA, also known as self-archiving, allows researchers to make a version of their article openly available through an institutional or disciplinary repository. This ensures that research is accessible to a global audience without paywall restrictions.

Celebrate National Social Work Month!

In March we celebrate Social Work Week in Ontario (March 3rd to 9th) and National Social Work Month for Canada.  This year’s theme for the Ontario Association of Social Workers is Wherever you are, so are we.  OASW notes that this theme “…speaks to the availability and versatility of the social work profession, highlighting its critical role in addressing a growing and universal problem – access to care” (

The Power of Freedom to Read Week

As Freedom to Read Week comes to a close, it’s a time to reflect on the vital role this event plays in celebrating our right to read freely and access diverse ideas. This week serves as a reminder of our fundamental right to read any book and access a wide range of ideas and information, despite efforts to censor materials deemed inappropriate by some.

Love Data Week - February 10-14, 2025!

Love Data Week 2025: "Whose Data Is It, Anyway?"

From February 10-14, 2025, the international data community is celebrating Love Data Week and exploring critical questions about data ownership and origins. This year's theme challenges us to examine where data comes from and who owns it before we use it in our research.

February is Black History Month

February is Black History Month, a time to recognize and celebrate the history, culture, and contributions of Black people and communities (in Canada and beyond). As an accompaniment to the Library’s physical display (pictured above), we are pleased to feature select digital resources as we learn and celebrate.

Creative Commons Research Guide Now Available

Happy New Year UWindsor!

The new year also brings a new resource from the Leddy Library. We are happy to share a new Research Guide with our community, all about Creative Commons licenses.

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