Earlier this week, we at AU Press were holed up in a room with Tim Horton’s doughnuts and the University of Minnesota Press’s Digital Projects Editor, Terence Smyre, for a…
Here at Athabasca University Press, we will be celebrating Open Access Week by publishing our 138th open access book since our founding ten years ago. For the past few years,…
We sat down with Meenal Shrivastava, professor of political economy and global studies and author of the newly released Amma’s Daughters: A Memoir. In this moving work of creative non-fiction,…
For many learners, assessment conjures up visions of red pens scrawling percentages in the top right-hand corner of exams and feelings of stress, inadequacy, and failure. Although learners sometimes respond…
In a recent blog post, we discussed the changing landscape of scholarly publishing and how our open access mandate motivates us to consider the endless possibilities for sharing knowledge communicating…
In 2014, Meytal Radzinski, a young scholar, founded Women in Translation Month to be held annually in August in response to the gender disparity she noticed in works of translation. Radzinski’s…
Resources for City Officials and Informed Citizens Living in an urban space means being part of a community, multiple communities, in fact. From your apartment building to your neighbourhood, and…
The interest and demand for online terminal degrees across disciplines by professionals wishing to conduct research and fulfill doctoral degree requirements at a distance is only increasing. But what these…
June 21 marks National Indigenous Peoples Day in Canada. This day is an essential celebration of the contributions of Indigenous peoples and an acknowledgement of their experiences, stories, and culture….
How Academia Could Benefit from Reading Technology I’d pay a *lot* more for books if I could see the highlights, annotations, and marginalia of friends or people I follow. If…