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The Inside, Outside, and Upside Downs of Children’s Literature
Dr. Jennifer Schneider’s open access textbook The Inside, Outside, and Upside Downs of Children’s Literature is available at: http://bit.ly/1sJezKJ. Aside from Dr. Schneider, thanks go to USF...
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In case you missed it, SPARC Executive Director Heather Joseph discussed the “Bigger Picture of OA” in honor of Open Access Week. She offers a wide range of open access models and what the future of...
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Publishing Opportunity–Open Educational Resources
For a special issue of the journal The Reference Librarian regarding libraries and Open Educational Resources (OER), the editors seek articles regarding this general topic, to include such issues as...
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Core Competencies for Scholarly Communication Librarians
Digital Scholarship and Publishing Librarian Jason Boczar helped write NASIG Core Competencies for Scholarly Communication Librarians. The document describes background, technical, activities, and...
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Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers
Several people in the library world have preserved Beall’s List before he took down his site. One place you can go is to this blog, Exploring the Evidence. The list is published here. Librarians are...
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iterating toward openness
iterating toward openness is a blog written and maintained by David Wiley who is the Chief Academic Officer of Lumen Learning, an organization focused on increasing student success, reinvigorating...
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Open Access eBooks on JSTOR
More than 500 quality ebooks are now available at no cost to libraries or users from JSTOR. These titles come from respected presses such as University of California, University of Michgan and ANU...
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Predatory Journals Exposed by Scholarly Sting
Recently a group of researchers at the University of Sussex offered editing expertise to 360 random open access journals under a female scholar’s fake name with fake credentials and fake publications....
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New Browser Extension Supports OA Use for Scholars
A Chronicle of Higher Education article recently reports that the Open Access Button is a new tool that helps researchers gain free access to copies of articles and many libraries are integrating it...
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Monica Metz-Wiseman Retires
After 35 years of dedicated service to the USF Libraries, Monica Metz-Wiseman, Director of Academic Resources, has retired. A reception was held in her honor on February 28th so that friends,...
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