We are pleased to announce that the Library will now be sharing quarterly lists of recent faculty and staff publications and integrating this into our communication with faculty about openly sharing their scholarly work. This announcement is made in coordination with the quarterly research awards gathered by the Office of Research, which are listed below Read More…
Tag: open access
Open Scholar Cafe
What is Open Scholar Cafe? You may have heard about Unlocking UW Tacoma’s Scholarly Work, the library’s SIF-funded pilot project. We know that folks may have questions about Open Access or making their scholarship more Open, which is why we are offering Open Scholar Cafe: a series of Pop-Up consultations to support faculty in sharing Read More…
Faculty: Unlock Your Scholarly Work, Connect with Readers & Communities
All UW Tacoma faculty members are invited to participate in “Unlocking UW Tacoma Scholarly Work,” a Strategic Impact Fund (SIF) pilot project the Library is launching this fall. The goal of this pilot is to enable faculty members to openly share more of their scholarly articles through Library-supported author profiles and UW Tacoma Digital Commons. Read More…
New Faculty/Staff Publications: Summer 2019
We are pleased to announce that the Library will now be sharing quarterly lists of recent faculty and staff publications and integrating this into our communication with with faculty about openly sharing their scholarly work. This announcement is made in coordination with the quarterly recent research award gathered by the Office of Research. The list Read More…
Library Photo of the Week
This week our librarians and staff participated in design activities to revise some of our workflows for sharing faculty publications to the UW Tacoma Digital Commons. This is just one of the many ways that UW librarians support open access publishing and sharing faculty research! (Protip: Faculty, make sure your SelectedWorks profile is up-to-date!)
New Undergraduate History Theses in Digital Commons
The History Undergraduate Theses in UW Tacoma Digital Commons, administered by Professor Julie Nicoletta, has six new papers that reflect an extensive research project that History majors complete as a part of their educational experience. The topics are both local and international scope, covering relatively recent history to the middle ages. Congrats to all the Read More…
Library Photo of the Week
UW Tacoma faculty are participating in a library workshop this week to learn about and implement OER (Open Educational Resources). We invited UW Tacoma institutional analyst and astronomy professor Alice Few to Wednesday’s session to share her perspectives and experience in transitioning to OER teaching. In the coming weeks participating faculty will create OER implementation Read More…
Application Open: Building Infrastructure for OER
Thanks to a UW Tacoma Strategic Initiative Fund grant, the UW Tacoma Library will be coordinating two options to help faculty learn about and implement Open Educational Resources (OER) this summer. The application (linked at the bottom of this post) is open now through May 10, 2019. Each of the options will provide participants a Read More…
Grad Students: Get Job Experience in Open Access & Digital Scholarship
The UW Tacoma Library is hiring an Open Access and Digital Scholarship Specialist. This position will participate and support the Library’s efforts to key areas: Enabling UW Tacoma faculty and students to openly share their scholarly work. Engaging with emerging forms of scholarship that leverage the affordances of digital technologies. Graduate students on any one Read More…
Coming soon to UW Tacoma: Unlocked scholarship and low-cost textbooks
If equitable access to knowledge makes the world a better place (spoiler: it does), life at UW Tacoma is looking up. The Library recently won two out of ten UW Tacoma Strategic Initiative Fund grants, providing funding to help openly share research by UW Tacoma faculty and lower textbook costs for students. Check out the Read More…