Connecticut College’s institutional repository, Digital Commons, currently holds over 9,000 pieces of student and faculty research, reports, and archival documents, which have been downloaded nearly 2,000,000 times (we will likely hit that number right around Thanksgiving). Included in those totals are hundreds of articles by faculty, which have been accessed by about 130,000 researchers in…
Category: Open Access
Open Access Week Day 4: Environmental Effects of Textbooks
International open access week is a time to focus on sharing information and knowledge across disciplines and geographic boundaries. Yet it is also a time to think very concretely about the waste that is produced by the millions of textbooks that are produced each year and then tossed in landfills. Open Access titles allow students…
Open Access Week Day 3: Climate Resources at Shain Library
Consistent with Connecticut College’s status as an early implementer of an environmental studies major (initially founded as the “human ecology” major in 1968) and with solid library holdings in environmental studies (collections include the Linda Lear Collection of Rachel Carson Books and Papers; Nature Conservancy papers; Connecticut College Arboretum Bulletins and records; and the faculty…
Open Access Week Day 2: Open Data
Today we’ll focus on open data as part of our series on International Open Access Week. What is open data? SPARC defines open data as “research data that is freely available on the internet permitting any user to download, copy, analyze, re-process, pass to software or use for any purpose without financial, legal, or technological…
International Open Access Week: New Guidelines for Federal Grants
Welcome to International Open Access Week 2022! To promote Open Access at Connecticut College, we are publishing one new post a day this week. The Open Access movement continues to grow. (Wait, back up! What is open access?) In addition to increased visibility and access, openness promotes research integrity, allows for wider and interdisciplinary collaboration,…
Faculty Recipient of CT State OER Grant Publishes Asian Art & Architecture Image Database
In April 2021 Chu-Niblack Assistant Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies Di Luo was awarded a State of Connecticut Open Educational Resources (OER) Impact Grant for her proposal to publish a publicly-accessible image database in collaboration with her students across several courses in Asian art. Upon its launch in December 2021, Asian Art &…
New Public Database Makes our Campus Art Collections Available for Broader Use
The Digital Scholarship & Curriculum Center recently published the Campus Art Collections on a platform from LUNA Imaging, making these collections available in a beautiful and user-friendly format. The database will bring together all the different art collections at the College, some of which are part of the Linda Lear Center for Special Collections &…
CFP: Brown University hosts NEH Institute on Born-Digital Publishing through University Presses
Brown University Library has announced a call for participants for an NEH-funded Institute, Born-Digital Scholarly Publishing: Resources and Roadmaps, hosted by the Library’s Digital Publications Initiative. Born-Digital Scholarly Publishing: Resources and Roadmaps supports scholars who wish to pursue interpretive projects that require digital expression and are intended for publication by a scholarly press, but who lack resources and…
Public Domain 2022: 400,000 audio recordings, Winnie-the-Pooh, and much more!
On January 1, 2022 hundreds of thousands published works entered the public domain. When works enter the public domain they are free for anyone to discover, download, share, and remix without copyright restrictions or limitations. This year’s Public Domain Day is especially notable because it includes over 400,000 sound recordings created before 1923. This long…
Domains & Websites Virtual Workshops
Join us this Wednesday, October 6 for another Domains and Websites workshop! Register here. Faculty, students, and staff are welcome to join. The informal workshop is tailored to what participants come to learn or do!
