Digital Discussions is a new event series featuring scholar lectures, workshops, and informal gatherings for faculty and students to talk about their interest in digital humanities and digital scholarship.
Users may now explore this rich history through a new digital collection available from ISU ReD, Milner Library’s institutional repository.
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.
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.
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?
Milner librarians worked on a collaborative project to learn what resources are necessary to add demographic terms to library catalog records in order to improve information discoverability and access.
While Milner Library strives to provide all the resources our faculty, staff, and students need for their research and other activities through its holdings and inter-library loan service, a researcher may also wish to quickly check an open access version of an article to see if it meets their needs.
Helen Frances Grennell was 16 years old when she first entered Illinois State Normal University.
Even though Illinois State University’s institutional repository, ISU ReD, has existed for several years, many students, staff, and faculty are still unfamiliar with this resource.
