The University of Iowa Libraries has funded 12 OpenHawks grant proposals, which will support faculty efforts to replace or avoid high-cost textbooks with Open Educational Resources (OER) for enhanced student success. The projects, which are set to be completed in January 2027, will save UI students approximately $100,000 in the first year of use alone.Continue reading “Announcing 12 new UI OpenHawks projects for 2025–2026”
Category Archives: Scholarly Communication
Open access agreement with IWA Publishing
The University of Iowa Libraries are pleased to announce an open access agreement with IWA Publishing, an internationally recognized publisher of peer-reviewed research on water, wastewater. and related environmental fields, and subsidiary of the International Water Association. The agreement includes: Unlimited open access publishing by UI-affiliated corresponding authors, without payment of article processing charges (APCs),Continue reading “Open access agreement with IWA Publishing”
Apply for OpenHawks grant funding to develop cost-saving Open Educational Resources
Are you concerned about lowering students’ textbook costs? Do you wish you could develop your own course resources to enhance your teaching? If so, you might consider applying for the OpenHawks grant program at the University of Iowa. Over the last several years, OpenHawks has funded over 70 Open Educational Resources (OER) projects across a broad range of disciplinesContinue reading “Apply for OpenHawks grant funding to develop cost-saving Open Educational Resources”
Celebrating Love Data Week 2025 with data curation
Monday, Feb. 10, marks the start of International Love Data Week 2025! Love Data Week (Feb. 10–14) is a celebration of data, including data science and data management, held around Valentine’s Day every year. This year’s theme “Whose Data Is It, Anyway?” asks us to examine who owns data and who uses it. So howContinue reading “Celebrating Love Data Week 2025 with data curation”
Learning about open access agreements–OA Week 2024
International Open Access Week 2024 is here! This year’s theme is “Community over Commercialization” —and from Oct. 21 to 27, the Libraries is highlighting some of the many ways you can leverage community resources and support to make your work open access (OA) for free. Welcome to day three of International Open Access Week 2024.Continue reading “Learning about open access agreements–OA Week 2024 “
Learning about open data during Open Access Week 2024
International Open Access Week 2024 is here! This year’s theme is “Community over Commercialization” —and from Oct. 21 to 27, the Libraries is highlighting some of the many ways you can leverage community resources and support to make your work open access (OA) for free. Welcome to day two of International Open Access (OA) WeekContinue reading “Learning about open data during Open Access Week 2024”
Learning about Green Open Access-OA Week 2024
International Open Access Week 2024 is here! This year’s theme is “Community over Commercialization” —and from Oct. 21 to 27, the Libraries is highlighting some of the many ways you can leverage community resources and support to make your work open access (OA) for free. Welcome to day one of International Open Access Week 2024!Continue reading “Learning about Green Open Access-OA Week 2024”
Learning about Diamond Open Access–OA Week 2024
During the week of Oct. 21–27, 2024, the University of Iowa Libraries is celebrating International Open Access Week by sharing updates and information about all things open access. In the Libraries’ Scholarly Impact Department, we get a lot of questions from UI authors who are interested in publishing their research open access (OA), but don’tContinue reading “Learning about Diamond Open Access–OA Week 2024”
Announcing the 2024–25 OpenHawks OER grant recipients
The University of Iowa Libraries has awarded 11 OpenHawks grants for the development of open educational resources (OER). OpenHawks is a campuswide grant program that funds faculty efforts to replace or avoid high-cost textbooks with OERs for enhanced student success. The projects, which are set to be completed in January 2026, will save UI students overContinue reading “Announcing the 2024–25 OpenHawks OER grant recipients”
Check out the new Iowa Research Online
Have you heard the news? Iowa Research Online (IRO) is new and improved! Staff at the University of Iowa Libraries have been hard at work on a new interface that goes way beyond the traditional institutional repository. We’re the first institution in the world to go live with Esploro from Ex Libris, a research informationContinue reading “Check out the new Iowa Research Online”