Join Milner Library for a variety of events and workshops that highlight the benefits of making information free, online, and open for all to use during Open Access Week 2020.
Milner Library recognizes Open Access Week, October 19-25
Unit: Scholarly Communication
First Wonsook Kim School of Art Theses added to ISU ReD
Each thesis published in ISU ReD includes the name of the school granting the degree, and now every School of Art thesis published will include this statement: “Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Fine Arts [from the] Wonsook Kim School of Art.”
Big Deals and the MIT Framework for Publisher Contracts
In 2019, the University of California Library System rejected their Elsevier subscription. Read more about MIT’s Framework for Publisher Contracts.
Deceptive publishers begone: Cabell’s Predatory Reports is here
Learn more about predatory or deceptive publishing, which is a business model in which publishers exploit researchers’ need to publish as part of the tenure and promotion process.
“Create your own” through the public domain
Explore the practice of taking public domain materials and using them to generate new creative works.
University Research Symposium hosted in ISU ReD
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has required every person in the ISU community to be flexible, creative, and understanding, but that response looks different depending on a person’s role at the University.
A look at the Open Library of Humanities
Learn more about the Open Library of Humanities (OLH), just one example of an organization dedicated to supporting journals which publish as open access.
Finding Open Access journals and books
Open Access is a means of dramatically lowering barriers to reading many publications; however, it can sometimes be difficult to determine if a publication has also undergone peer or editorial review. Here are resources to help.
Smithsonian open access
Milner Library loves working with creators to lower barriers to the access of their scholarly and creative works through ISU ReD and other resources like the Smithsonian.
Reusing others’ work with Creative Commons licenses
Open access does not mean the creator has surrendered their copyright, but some creators want to see what others do with their creations.
