by Peter Suberhttp://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/brief.htm Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. What makes it possible is the internet and the consent of the author or copyright-holder. OA is entirely compatible with peer review, and all the major OA initiatives for scientific and scholarly literature insist onContinue reading “A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access”
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DSPH Pecha-Kucha! October 26
The Digital Studio for the Public Humanities – DSPH – invites you to attend “DSPH Pecha-Kucha!,” our first public event , on Wednesday, October 26 – from 5 to 6:30 pm at the DLS | DSPH space in the northwest corner of the The University of Iowa Main Library on the ground floor. We’ll haveContinue reading “DSPH Pecha-Kucha! October 26”
Iowa Digital Library adds interactive collection of Madurese folk tales
The University of Iowa Libraries and a UI linguistics scholar have taken an important step toward preserving the culture of an often overlooked Indonesian ethnic group while at the same time opening worldwide access for students and scholars interested in delving deeper into the study of the Madurese language and culture. William Davies, UI professorContinue reading “Iowa Digital Library adds interactive collection of Madurese folk tales”
Organize your citations and learn to use RefWorks in two workshops
The University of Iowa Libraries will offer two introductory workshops on RefWorks. RefWorks is a web-based service that enables you to save bibliographic citations from the library catalog and other library databases. Both workshops will be held in 1015A LIB (1st floor, northwest corner of Main Library, located in the Digital Studio for Public Humanities).Continue reading “Organize your citations and learn to use RefWorks in two workshops”
Thought Balloons: Talking about Comics, Oct 4
Drop in at the Main Library’s Comic Book Café and share your thoughts about comics: creating them, reading them, collecting them. Tell us what your favorite comic is (and why). Bring your own creations, or listen to others talk about journaling through comics, or the history of comics, or the comic book industry. Learn aboutContinue reading “Thought Balloons: Talking about Comics, Oct 4”
Civil War crowdsourcing project goes viral
Woo, hoo! We’ve been slashdotted. This is when a popular website (in this case, Reddit.com, an enormous online community where contributors share web content that others may find interesting, enlightening, etc.) links to a smaller site (in this case, our Civil War Diaries transcription project) causing a huge influx of web traffic that overwhelms theContinue reading “Civil War crowdsourcing project goes viral”
The Forever War is UI Libraries BookMarks Statue
Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature and three Johnson County public libraries unveiled 25 unique BookMark statues FRIDAY, JUNE 3, kicking off what is believed to be the first public art display in the world to celebrate reading and writing. These gigantic statues were created by artists from throughout the Midwest and will be onContinue reading “The Forever War is UI Libraries BookMarks Statue”
Transitions: scholarly communication news is now a blog
Beginning this spring, Transitions, the University of Iowa’s occasional newsletter on scholarly communication issues, will appear as a blog, with postings at regular intervals as circumstances demand. Three blog entries have been posted to date, with topics ranging from copyright and open access journals, to the University of Iowa’s citation and publishing history, to the economicsContinue reading “Transitions: scholarly communication news is now a blog”
UI Libraries commemorates Civil War sesquicentennial with exhibition, digital collection
University of Iowa Libraries has launched a new exhibition and digital collection to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, and it’s enlisting the help of a few good men and women (well, lots, really) to help make the collection even more accessible and useful. The exhibition, “‘Now Do Not Let Your Courage Fail’: VoicesContinue reading “UI Libraries commemorates Civil War sesquicentennial with exhibition, digital collection”
It’s Snapshot Day at the UI Libraries, April 12
To celebrate National Library Week, the UI Libraries are taking a “snapshot” of activities in the library today. We need your help. We can’t wait to see what you’re doing in the library.