Discover eScholarship open content in Google Scholar
McGill’s open access repository eScholarship is now discoverable via Google Scholar. This includes over 50,000 items such as articles, dissertations, and theses. eScholarship items will either be the first link: Or one of the versions: Interested in adding works to …Discover eScholarship open content in Google Scholar Read More »
McGill University Archives’ starter kit for the Fall semester
We would like to welcome all students to this new fall semester. We hope that you will have the opportunity to visit our beautiful library starting this September! The last few months have been challenging for all of us, for …McGill University Archives’ starter kit for the Fall semester Read More »
Orientation Now & Then
Orientation activities at McGill Library come in all shapes and sizes. Over the years the Library has participated in “meet & greets”, tours, workshops, scavenger hunts, tabling events, ice cream socials, service fairs, games, photo booths…even physical exhibits for war …
Animating ROAAr Collections
Animation has come a long way from the early days of film in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. If you go even further back, early animators breathed life into still, 2-dimensional pictures using mechanical techniques. Take a tour …
Library Update from Dean Colleen Cook
Dear Friends of the Library, The 2020-2021 academic year was one for the books in more ways than we can count here at the McGill Library. After completing a full year under these exceptional circumstances, I want to take a …
Welcome, bienvenue! An interview with Dean Colleen Cook
By Maya Willard-Stepan, Outreach Assistant, Humanities & Social Sciences Library With 12 branches and more than seven million items, the McGill Library is one of the largest – and most enjoyed aspects of our university. No one knows this better …Welcome, bienvenue! An interview with Dean Colleen Cook Read More »
The student face of Library services
By Steven Spodek, Development and Alumni Relations Officer, McGill Library Student employees are actively involved in the McGill Library. From digitizing cultural heritage materials, organizing archival collections, and researching artwork to writing news stories and social media posts, and acting as information assistants. Student hires are …
The end of an IEra
Microsoft will soon end support of Internet Explorer (IE11) for Office365 products. With this news, other platform providers have followed suit in either discontinuing support for IE, or no longer recommending its use on their sites including the company that runs our Sofia Discovery catalogue, OCLC, which has announced it will end support for IE entirely on August 17th in line with Microsoft.
How to protect yourself and your work when publishing open access
What would you do if you discovered your open access PhD dissertation for sale on Amazon? Several postgrads at The Open University found themselves in this very situation. The Open University’s library team contacted Amazon and the theses were pulled off …How to protect yourself and your work when publishing open access Read More »
