Open Access Week is celebrated every year to highlight the benefits of making information free, online, and open for others to use.
Open Access Week: What does it mean?
Unit: Scholarly Communication
Milner Library celebrates Open Access Week 2019, October 21-25
Open Access Week 2019 is an international celebration of the benefits of making information free, online, and open for all to use.
Explore resources in the public domain
For researchers wishing to work with public domain materials, or just browse them and see what others have done for inspiration, the Public Domain Review is a welcome resource.
Lever Press: An open access monograph publisher
Lever Press publishes open access monographs on an innovative funding model.
Oh, the places your thesis will go
Through ISU ReD, students can make their dissertation or thesis available online for everyone to read.
Educating Illinois on ISU ReD
When we talk about what users have placed on ISU ReD we often discuss journal articles; however, many other items of interest to the ISU community are also located in our institutional repository. For example, ISU ReD hosts the full text of Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History John B. Freed’s monograph Educating Illinois: Illinois State
Find open access resources using OAIster
Use the OAIster database to locate millions of open access resources online.
Historic Illinois Shakespeare Festival programs now online
Milner Library and the College of Fine Arts have published an online collection of Illinois Shakespeare Festival program booklets.
UC library system says “no deal” to Elsevier
Some academic libraries are being more assertive in their negotiations with big journal publishers, seeking terms that lower subscription costs and are more friendly to open access publishing
Library leads digital humanities task force
Are you working on or interested in digital humanities projects? If so, Milner Library wants to hear from you.
