The Library, in collaboration with the Office of Research, will be hosting a conversation (via Zoom) with Jessie Daniels and Polly Thistlethwaite, authors of Being a Scholar in the Digital Era (University of Chicago Press). All are invited to attend. When: Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Where: Tioga Library Building 307b. This book has been been Read More…
Tag: open access
Predatory publishing and vetting scholarly journals
The Open Access movement has the potential to increase public access to research, create more diverse conversations about new ideas, and completely change the scholarly publishing industry — but that doesn’t mean there aren’t challenges to be addressed. Among them is the growth of “predatory publishing,” or the practice of profit-driven or unethical journals preying Read More…
New UW Open Access Policy: Faculty Training
On October 30, 2018, Liz Bedford, Scholarly Publishing Outreach Librarian for the UW Libraries, and Justin Wadland, Associate Director and Head, Digital Scholarship Program, for UW Tacoma Library, presented on the new UW Open Access Policy Both of us serve on the UW Libraries Open Access Policy Implementation Team, a tri-campus group charged with planing Read More…
Finding and Using Open Resources
Finding openly licensed resources is not difficult, and with the help of Washington’s Open Attribution Builder it is very easy to correctly attribute the work to its’ author. In Google Images, use the “Tools” button after you run a simple search to limit your results to openly licensed images. Choose a license from the drop Read More…
It’s OA Week!
It’s Open Access Week 2018, friends! If you’re new to this concept, let us fill you in. Open Access Week is an annual, global event focused on sharing the benefits of the Open Access movement. Here at the UWT Library, we hope to use it as an opportunity to educate, answer questions, and start conversations about Read More…