Students across Illinois State University’s campus will have the chance to showcase their work in a new way with the inaugural Image of Research juried competition. Entries will be taken January 19-February 19 for the exhibit in March.
Users may now explore this rich history through a new digital collection available from ISU ReD, Milner Library’s institutional repository.
Provost Jan Murphy announced Dallas Long has been named dean of the University’s Milner Library. Long has served as an associate dean at the library since 2014.
Collections of open access materials often have different focuses, such as Open Access Digital Theological Library which collects materials about religious studies and related disciplines.
What do librarians write about? Find out in this review of the 100 items that Milner faculty and staff have submitted to ISU ReD.
Sometimes, students find more than books and information at the library. In Maddi Loiselle’s case, she found her calling.
Unglue.It is a nonprofit program that works with authors and publishers to place books into the public domain by agreeing on a price and then crowdsourcing the funds to pay the rights holder to issue the book under a Creative Commons license.
Hazle Buck Ewing’s activist writings, as well as incoming letters from dozens of other suffragists and materials from the National Woman’s Party and Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, are now freely available online for research and study, thanks to a monthslong digitization campaign by Milner Library and the Ewing Cultural Center.
Authors wishing to make their materials digitally available can often place pre-prints or even published articles on institutional repositories such as ISU ReD, but where does the software and tools used in open access publishing come from?
Illinois State Archives used a grant to hire an intern to create at least 15 Wikipedia articles promoting the achievements of archivists from underrepresented groups.
