The Society for the History of Natural History (SHNH) is delighted to award the SHNH President’s Award 2023 to Victoria Dickenson for her work on the Gwillim Project: Women, Environment, and Networks of Knowledge and Exchange in Early Nineteenth Century Madras. The Award recognizes an individual or team’s contribution and impact in promoting and improving accessibility, inclusivity, and diversity to the study of the history of natural history.

Classified as: ROAAr – Rare Books, Osler, Art, Archives
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Published on: 19 May 2023

As of April 1, McGill students are able to access the Nahum Gelber Law Library 24 hours a day, seven days a week. As agreed between the Students' Society of McGill University (SSMU) and the Law Students Association (LSA), the Nahum Gelber Law Library will limit access to the three upper floors of the library to Law students only during the April 14 to 28 examination period. Details are as follows:

- A valid McGill ID card is required for access to the Nahum Gelber Law Library outside of Info Desk Service Hours.

Classified as: exam period, Opening hours
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Published on: 29 Mar 2023

Virtual Reference Service

Connect with a librarian virtually during the Easter weekend on Saturday, April 8 from noon to 5PM. Please note that the virtual reference service will be closed on:

  • Friday, April 7
  • Sunday, April 9
  • Monday, April 10

Questions? Ask us!

Classified as: statutory holidays
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Published on: 29 Mar 2023

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McGill Library is pleased to announce the launch of the Missing Voices: South Asian Perspectives on The Gwillim Archives website and Lost Voices podcast, developed with funding from the Digital Museums Canada investment program.

Classified as: ROAAr, Rare Books & Special Collections
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Published on: 27 Mar 2023

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We are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Lorie Kloda as Vice-Dean of McGill University Library, for a five-year term, effective April 17, 2023. Dr. Kloda joins the senior management team led by Trenholme Dean of Libraries Guylaine Beaudry. Kloda will provide leadership for initiatives supporting the Library’s strategic directions and will oversee a portfolio of units including finance/planning & resources, facilities, communications, assessment, and Indigenous Initiatives.

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Published on: 23 Mar 2023

On Monday, March 20 the Macdonald Campus Library will be opening up the Seed Library for online orders. The seed catalogue will be made available to McGill students, faculty, and staff on opening day. Please note that there is a limit of 25 seed packets per borrower.

If you're not yet a member of the Seed Library, please fill out the registration form.

Published on: 20 Mar 2023

Updated March 4

The technical issue we were experiencing with ProQuest Central links has been resolved. Thank you for your patience.

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We are currently experiencing an issue when accessing ProQuest Central links within Discovery (Sofia catalogue). The links are resolving to an error message that reads:

“The link you clicked triggered a search in ProQuest that did not find the item you were expecting. Required link information may be missing or incorrect. Ask your librarian or administrator for help.”

Classified as: Library news, Technical issue
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Published on: 3 Mar 2023

Updated February 28

The technical issue we were experiencing with DeGruyter has been resolved. Thank you for your patience.


The Library is experiencing a technical issue with DeGruyter where access to all links is being blocked, and instead we are seeing an “Unspecified server error” message.

We are currently working with DeGruyter to restore access and apologize for any inconvenience.

Classified as: Library news, Technical issue
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Published on: 27 Feb 2023

The Library is pleased to announce that McGill corresponding authors publishing with five Canadian Science Publishing journals now have the option to make their articles open access at no cost.

Please see below for the full details and eligibility criteria.


Eligible titles:

Classified as: Library news, Friends of the Library, Open Access, open access agreement
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Published on: 3 Feb 2023

What is Proactive Chat?

If you visited the Library website recently, you may have noticed a red conversation bubble icon and pop-up window located in the bottom right hand corner asking you if you need help.

This is a new feature of the Library’s chat service meant to help you reach librarians when you need it the most. This proactive chat window is directly linked to our chat reference service, so if you use it, you will be in direct communication with a librarian that can help you find what you were looking for. 

Classified as: Library news, reference, Friends of the Library
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Published on: 30 Jan 2023

Instructors can now help students connect to research and information resources by adding the Library Guides tool to myCourses. This dynamic tool can be inserted into myCourses in two ways, either directly in the course module and accessible via the left-side menu, or in the course’s top-level menu. Each course can be connected to pre-assigned subject guides that will populate automatically, or to one or more niche guides curated by the relevant subject librarian.

Classified as: myCourses
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Published on: 25 Jan 2023

Starting January 15, 2023, McGill-affiliated corresponding authors will have the option to make their work open access for no cost in Wiley’s hybrid journals. Review the list of eligible titles (XLS will download).

Note this deal does not apply to Wiley’s fully open access journals.

Classified as: Library news, Open Access, oa, open access agreement
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Published on: 19 Jan 2023

As of Thursday, December 1, McGill students are able to access the Nahum Gelber Law Library 24 hours a day, seven days a week. As agreed between the Students' Society of McGill University (SSMU) and the Law Students Association (LSA), the Nahum Gelber Law Library will limit access to the three upper floors of the library to Law students only during the December 7 to 21 examination period.

Details are as follows:

Classified as: Opening hours, exam period, user services
Published on: 28 Nov 2022

Call for Proposals:

Are you a McGill researcher, student, or staff member involved in a project to promote or incorporate open research practices? The Organizing Committee invites lightning talk proposals for the inaugural McGill Library open research symposium: The future is open: Building an open research community at McGill. Lightning talks consist of a 5-minute presentation highlighting open research, cutting-edge practice, or both. We are hoping to feature a range of presentations representing many disciplines.

Classified as: Library news, Research, Open Access
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Published on: 22 Nov 2022

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