Love Data Week – February 10-14, 2025
The Love Data Week is an annual event to celebrate research data and research data management. Originally established at the University of Michigan within the ICPSR, an international consortium of more than 800 academic institutions and research organizations, the Love Data Week has become a worldwide event. In reference to love, it is celebrated in the second week of February, during Valentines Day.
Here at the University of Toronto Scarborough you can participate in the following events for Love Data Week:
Sage Resources for Using Data in Research and Instruction - February 10, 2025, 10-11:30am
Data Resources for Entrepreneurs - February 13, 2025, 11-12:30pm
Excel and the Fundamentals of Data - February 13, 2025, 3–5:00pm
Understanding SQL - February 14, 2025, 3–5:00pm
U of T Dataverse in Borealis
Are you looking to expand your research impact?
Share your data with the broader research community: deposit your research data and project files with support from the library in the U of T Dataverse hosted in Borealis, the Canadian Dataverse Repository.
Every dataset in U of T Dataverse is automatically assigned a DOI and can be easily connected to related publications, including those available in U of T’s TSpace repository, making it easier for others to discover, engage with, and cite your research.
Have questions? Join us Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 12-1:30pm for our online workshop Depositing Research Data in U of T Dataverse (Borealis), contact us, or visit the U of T Libraries RDM website.
Celebrate Fair Dealing Week – February 24-28, 2025
This Fair Dealing Week, we celebrate the essential role of fair dealing in fostering academic freedom and innovation. At the University of Toronto, our Fair Dealing Guidelines provide a framework to help faculty navigate the complexities of copyright law while supporting teaching, research, and scholarship. Please take this opportunity to familiarize yourself with these guidelines and ensure your use of copyrighted materials continues to be both responsible and impactful.
Open Education Week - March 3-7, 2025
During Open Education Week, March 3-7, hundreds of open educators worldwide share their passion for open education by showcasing their innovations and collective work with students, technologists, and other faculty members.
This is the 14th edition of OEWeek. Since 2012, the open education community in 79 countries has hosted 2,064 events and shared 843 Open Education assets in 38 languages. Open Education Week has included 85,535 engaged participants from 192 countries.
Pressbooks
Pressbooks makes it easy to create interactive digital textbooks that can be easily shared in a variety of formats. Create new content or adapt existing OER to meet your teaching and learning needs.
Pressbooks accounts are available at no cost to educators affiliated with one of Ontario’s public postsecondary institutions through eCampusOntario.