Pascal Calarco's blog

Every year for a week in the second half of October, research libraries, open access advocacy organizations and some members of the publishing industry celebrate International Open Access Week, filled with learning opportunities for faculty and students around the economics, ethics and practical issues around scholarly publishing. Leddy Library has hosted events here and elsewhere for many years, and this year we have hybrid sessions taking place online and in Leddy’s Student Collaboratory on the first floor of the Main building (all times Eastern and in English):
 

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.

Academic libraries across the country are experiencing significant challenges to their information resources budgets, and University of Windsor’s Leddy Library is no exception.  The library has faced diminished purchasing power for its collections budgets over the past several years due to 3 main factors: