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Without an institutional license, research papers can be expensive to access. Twenty years ago, Research4Life was formed to provide access to data to researchers in low- and middle-income countries, focusing on five different disciplines: health...

Can we ensure social and economic rights as we rebuild from the COVID-19 pandemic? That’s what Dr. Christine Vézina, Law Professor at Laval University, thinks.

Dr. Wright stated that scholarly research should be focused on the notion of a ‘commons’ and collectivity – knowledge should be shared with a community for public benefit.

Research has changed in the digital age. The HSS repository reflects this reality, as it stores many different types of media — including podcasts, videos, and computer code — not just journals and books.

“Indigenous languages are filled with beauty, like great works of art…” said Onowa McIvor, Professor of Indigenous Education at the University of Victoria. “It is really a pedagogy of hope.”

There is an age when we acquire an understanding of metaphor. I recall hearing, “Avec des si on peut mettre Paris en bouteille. » We know that means something like “anything is possible if you dream”. But I imagined the homonym (scies, which...

In a few short weeks, scholars from nearly 40 different academic disciplines will gather virtually for the 91st annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, this year, centred on the theme of Transitions. For us at the Federation, Congress...