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by Linda Walton, Associate University Librarian
The UI Libraries has published a finalized list of cancelled subscriptions to journals, databases, and e-books. These cancellation decisions were made after considering feedback from the campus community. Some titles were retained as a result of feedback.
Titles cancelled were low use, or carried a high cost per use, or duplicated content available in other sources.
We will continue to monitor requests for titles and we will also watch for changes in subscription costs in the future. Both variables will inform decisions in the future.
The Libraries saved $600,000 and met its budgetary goal for this year.
Information about cancellation project and decision process
All annual loans due in June, 2019 may now be renewed for another year.
You may renew your loans:
You may return books to any University of Iowa Library.
You may return books to Hardin Library via campus mail. Please include a campus mail book return form with each book.
We want you to succeed, and here are some of the ways we want to help making studying at the Hardin Library easier:
Hardin Library printing and public computers are provided by ITS.
Color printing is available from ALL public computers. Simply select ITC-Color as your printer and release the job from the print release station on 3rd Floor or in the Information Commons West.
Color printing is 15 cents per side. Black and white printing is 3 cents per side. We are quite a bargain!
Using Google Scholar off campus requires changing some settings in order to view full-text articles.
Access Google Scholar from Hardin’s A-Z database list or directly at http://purl.lib.uiowa.edu/GoogleSch.
Then change settings as below:
Go to Settings
Click on Library Links
Make sure The University of Iowa – ViewIt@UILink has a check mark next to it and SAVE that setting
Then look for the ViewIt@UILink link in the results to get to University of Iowa subscribed content.
Explore the “Cite” and “Cited by” features
We are happy to announce OpenHawks, a campus-wide grant program that funds faculty efforts to replace their current textbooks with Open Educational Resources (OER) for enhanced student success.
OER (such as textbooks, videos, assessment tools, lab books, research materials or interactive course modules) are free for students and carry legal permission for open use. The open licenses under which these items are released allow users to create, reuse, and redistribute copies of the resources.
Removing cost barriers to course materials opens student access and positively impacts learning. OER provide further benefit when faculty fully integrate free resources into their curricula by “remixing” or tailoring materials to enhance specific learning objectives.
Acknowledging the rising costs of educational resources and increasing financial pressures on students, the UI Libraries works to provide creative solutions in partnership with other campus units. As a result of this collaborative work, OpenHawks grants support faculty efforts to use OER at any level: adopting or remixing existing materials, developing open access assessment and learning tools, redesigning courses, or creating an original OER to share under an open license.
Call for Proposals: Here you can find more information about OpenHawks and instructions for applying. Spring 2019 applications are due on April 26, 2019.
Application: Once you’re ready to apply, click here and complete your application in Qualtrics. (You can find a PDF version of the application questions here.)
Evaluation Rubrics: These are the criteria reviewers will use to make funding decisions.
Funding is available at several different levels depending on the type of projects applicants wish to complete. Some projects require more time and resources than others, and our award structure is meant to reflect that. See below for the award types available:
| Award Type | Award Range | Requirements |
|---|---|---|
| Adoption | $500-$1,000 | Use an existing open textbook for a course with no editing and minimal course adaptation required. |
| Remixing | $750-$2,000 | Adapt, update, combine, or improve existing OER to replace a currently used textbook. Use of library-licensed materials may also be considered. |
| Support Materials | $1,000-$3,000 | Develop test bank questions, teaching support materials, quizzes, interactive learning aids, or other support materials for existing OER. |
| Course Redesign | Up to $5,000 | Redesign a course around the use of OER. |
| OER Creation | Up to $10,000 | Create an original Open Educational Resource to be used in a course and shared under an open license. |
Please contact Mahrya Burnett (mahrya-burnett@uiowa.edu), UI Scholarly Communications Librarian, to find out more.
Do you need to use a book checked out to someone else? The UI Libraries’ new default option for getting a copy of a book that is in use is to request it through interlibrary loan, rather than recall it from the person who has it checked out.
The Libraries’ interlibrary loan* service will get a copy of the needed material from another library, at no charge to you. On average, it takes 6.5 days to get a book through interlibrary loan. In contrast, when a book is recalled from another user, that user is given at least a week to return it, and sometimes longer, depending on when they had checked the book out. This change also means that materials you have checked out are less likely to be recalled from you.
If you have never requested a book or journal article through interlibrary loan, you will need to fill out a registration form the first time. There is no limit on the number of interlibrary loan requests UI faculty, staff, students, or residents can make, and requests can be for any use, including entertainment.
Books may still be recalled by UI Libraries staff when they are needed for course reserves.
If you have questions about interlibrary loan or any other UI Libraries service or policy, contact Hardin staff at 319-335-9151.
*What are Interlibrary Loans?
Interlibrary loans are materials borrowed from another library for use by a user or loaned to another library for their patron’s use.
The lending library does not know which user has requested the materials.
Open Education Week #OEWeek is a week-long event highlight the impact of Open Education, and Open Educational Resources (OER) on teaching and learning.
Open education is the practice of allowing the sharing of learning objects, case studies, materials, and other resources unburdened by cost and copyright.
Liberated: Faculty Perspectives on OER | Monday, March 4, 1-2:30pm, 2032 Main Library
Talk with Nicole Allen from SPARC | Friday, March 8, 1-2pm, E105 Adler Journalism Building
For more information see:
Open Education Resources Program at UI Libraries and grants program
The University of Iowa Libraries work to offset increases in the costs of information resources each year along with a flat budget (0 percent increase in funding). Our strategy is to minimize the impact of inflation by continuously monitoring the use of the collection to identify and eliminate journals, databases, and ebooks that:
In the past, these processes–along with reducing spending on printed books–have enabled The Libraries to counter rising costs. However, in 2020, subscription costs will increase 5 to 7 percent, and we are finding it difficult to identify further spending reductions. The UI Libraries must identify $600,000 in subscriptions to cancel. Health sciences areas will cut $175,000 and other areas will cut the remaining $425,000. Subscriptions managed by the Law Library are not included in this process.
We need your feedback in order to make the best possible decisions.
Faculty and staff should complete the feedback form by Friday, March 1, 2019 to make a case to keep journal titles or database subscriptions.
Updates and more information about the process is available online.
