OCTOBER 19 - 25, 2015

EDIT-a-THON

o Why: Have you ever looked at Wikipedia and said to yourself, “something’s missing”?

Now you can learn how to edit a Wikipedia page!

o Who: You!o What: Wikipedia Edit-a-Thono When: October 20th @ 2pmo Where: Classroom A, James A.

Gibson Library

How do they differ?

Peer-reviewed Reputable, ranked journal High impact factor

Peer-reviewedReputable, ranked journal High impact factor

The answer? Only one is easily

accessible

Guess which company had the higher profit margin in 2014?

22%37%

$

If Informa (Taylor & Francis, Routledge) were to reduce its profit rate to a very healthy 20%

instead of 35%?

The difference - $95 million - could fund 950 academic positions at an average salary of

$100,000 per year

The exchange rate of the Canadian dollar ($) doesn’t only affect rising

gas prices…

More than 80% of library acquisitions at Brock are in US

dollars

Journal of Personali

ty & Social

Psychology

$2,660

$2,660

Two week vacation to

South Africa!

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Price Information

For $76 million, you could fund over 12,000 student research

assistantships at a rate of $6,000 each

In one year, between 2012-13, Elsevier's profit increased by $76

million