Celebrating Open Educational Resources with Matthew Sag 

We have the tools to create books at scale, at zero cost, and with complete freedom from publisher deadlines and formatting limitations.” This first week in March, Emory Libraries celebrates Open Educational Resources (OER) by spotlighting Matthew Sag, Professor of Law, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science at Emory University Law School, and author Read More …

External investments in Open Access and DEI initiatives

Emory Libraries have long invested in our own and external organizations’ efforts to create a more equitable and open scholarly communications system. Library spending is no longer just about purchasing materials and providing access, but also for supporting these initiatives which benefit Emory researchers and students and the research community at large. This year our Read More …

New Open Access Publishing Agreements

Emory Libraries is pleased to announce that as of January 1, 2023, all Emory University researchers (i.e., anyone with an emory.edu email address) can publish open access in all American Chemical Society (ACS), Royal Society (RS), and Institute of Physics (IOP) journals at no cost to the researcher. These costs – called article processing charges Read More …

Public Domain Day January 1, 2023: Works from 1927 are open to all

On January 1, 2023, copyrighted works from 1927 entered the US public domain. They are now free for all to copy, share, and build upon. These include Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse and the final Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, the German science-fiction film Metropolis and Alfred Hitchcock’s first thriller, compositions by Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller, Read More …