As librarians our discussions of scholarly communication topics often focus on how they can benefit our users as a service, such as the Textbook Affordability Committee’s work with faculty members to make open-access textbooks available to students.
Thanks to a collaboration between the Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts and Milner Library, copies of printed programs from the 1978 to 2019 Illinois Shakespeare Festivals are available online in Illinois State University’s institutional repository, ISU ReD. These materials are freely available to everyone.
Open Access is a frequent topic of our news items from the Scholarly Communication Team, not just for its own sake but for the ways it can open new avenues and methods of research for our faculty, students, and staff.
The refereed, open access journal International Journal for Business Education (IJBE) is now hosted on Illinois State University’s institutional repository, ISU ReD.
One of the joys of working with scholarly communications and Open Access materials is seeing how our colleagues around the world have embraced the movement, and how their work can benefit our users. With the semester winding down, we certainly hope our readers will take a well-deserved break but some of you might already be thinking of next year’s classes.
Read about three book chapters written by ISU faculty and are now available to Open Access, thanks to the deal between Milner Library and IGI.
Learn about cultural heritage institutuions utilizing linked data projects from Milner Library’s Scholarly Communication Team.
Learn more about an Open Access Research Toolkit from Milner Library’s Scholarly Communication Team
Resources are available for scholars who wish to create open access data sets. Read more from Milner’s Scholarly Communication Team.
On January 1, 2022, thousands of creative works published in 1926 entered the public domain following the expiration of the 95-year period of protections established by U.S. copyright law.
