Due to inclement weather, the Libraries will be closed Monday, October 29th AND Tuesday, October 30th.
October 29, 2012
October 26, 2012
Open Access that Isn’t
“Predatory publishers are corrupting open access,” a World View column by Jeffrey Beall that appeared in the September 12th issue of Nature, says “journals that exploit the author-pays model damage scholarly publishing and promote unethical behaviour by scientists.” Beall, a librarian at the University of Colorado at Denver, has compiled Beall’s List of Predatory, Open-Access Publishers, 2012 ed., which describes those which should be avoided.
October 22, 2012
Book Sale!
Semi-Annual Book Sale!
Thursday, October 25, 9 am-4 pm
NAC Rotunda
Bargains for everyone!
October 19, 2012
Open Access Week
October 22-28 is Open Access Week.
Open Access Week, a global event now entering its sixth year, is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.
“Open Access” to information – the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need – has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry are conducted. It has direct and widespread implications for academia, medicine, science, industry, and for society as a whole.
Open Access (OA) has the potential to maximize research investments, increase the exposure and use of published research, facilitate the ability to conduct research across available literature, and enhance the overall advancement of scholarship. Research funding agencies, academic institutions, researchers and scientists, teachers, students, and members of the general public are supporting a move towards Open Access in increasing numbers every year.
October 17, 2012
Cohen Hours Expand
Beginning Monday, October 22, Cohen Library hours will expand Monday through Friday. The new hours will be 7 am – Midnight. For a full schedule of hours and events for all libraries, click here.
October 16, 2012
Transition
The College is currently redesigning the web site, but is not ready to go live with a new site just yet. In the Libraries, we must update our site frequently to include access changes to licensed content and more. As a result, some of the content on this web site is out-of-date now. Rather than keep trying to fix the old site, in this transitional time, the best way to get to our most current material is to go directly to our Research by Subject page. It is our “home page” until the new site launch.
October 10, 2012
New Ebook Collection
Palgrave Connect contains 3300+ ebooks in the Humanities, Business, and the Social Sciences for the years 2010 through 2012. These scholarly ebooks are arranged in eleven subject collections: Business & Management, Economics & Finance, Education, History, Language & Linguistics, Literature, Media & Culture, Political & International Studies, Religion & Philosophy, Social Sciences, and Theatre & Performance. PDF format is available throughout, and EPUB format is available for the 2011/2012 collections.