The theme of this year’s International Open Access Week (October 24–30) is Open in Action. As part of our contribution to this celebration, the Scholarly Communications Office (SCO) is posting weekly blogs that showcase the achievements, benefits, and power of Open Access at Emory. This week we’re highlighting OpenEmory, an open access digital repository of scholarly Read More …
Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. What makes it possible is the internet and the consent of the author or copyright-holder. –Peter Suber, from A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access The open access movement has grown and flourished as the internet has provided Read More …
The Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) is an excellent place to begin your research, or to check for important sources (books, articles, book chapters) that you might have missed. With collections of annotated resources compiled by panels of scholarly experts, each bibliography is is selective rather than comprehensive and offers a pared-down list of the best reads Read More …
OpenCon 2016 Travel Scholarship Call for Applications The Emory Scholarly Communications Office is pleased to announce a travel scholarship for OpenCon 2016 (http://www.opencon2016.org). OpenCon 2016, organized by the Right to Research Coalition, SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and a committee of student and early career researcher organizations from around the world, Read More …
What’s better than reading some popular reading material while on vacation in the summer? Why it’s reading or listening to an e-book or audio book from Emory’s Overdrive collection and not having to worry about getting it back on time. Check out some of the notable titles from the past year; Cynthia Sweeney’s The Nest, Read More …
As the 2015-2016 Woodruff Library/ ECDS, Alice Walker and Beck Center Graduate Fellowship year is drawing to a close, we would like to thank our library fellows for their hard work this year. They built databases, created physical and digital exhibits, and served as research and teaching partners within and outside of the library. Emory Read More …
Of all the Emory University alumni benefits, physical and virtual access to the Emory Libraries remains one of the favorite privileges among Emory alumni. “Alumni are excited to be able to continue using most of the library’s resources, including checkout privileges,” says Rich McNeal, library service desk coordinator at the Robert W. Woodruff Library. “I’ve seen Read More …
As you prepare for graduation, you can count on many of the same great library services as alumni, which you’ve come to expect as a student. As Emory alumni, you will always have access to the library. You only need to update your record at the Library Service Desk, then you can continue to check Read More …
The library is currently moving collections from the Storage Facility at 1762 Clifton to the new Library Service Center The move is expected to continue through mid-summer 2016, with Rose Library collections moving first, followed by the rest of the collections in order of use and accession, newest to oldest. Library Users may continue to Read More …
by Alain St. Pierre Welcome to Featured Databases! This blog series from the Robert W. Woodruff Library is intended to give you a brief introduction to databases that you may not know and to provide you with some tips to get you started. To explore all of our databases, please visit Emory Library’s databases page. Featured Read More …
We are pleased to announce that the 2016 Woodruff Library Undergraduate Research Award (URA) winners have been selected by our panel of judges. Prizes will be awarded to the following students: Hannah Conway —“Behind the Lens of the Civil Rights Movement: The Power of Photography to Both Reveal and Conceal″ Faculty sponsor: Carol Anderson Samantha Keng —“Model Read More …
Ellen Prokop, (Ph.D.) Associate Photoarchivist at the Frick Art Reference Library and an art historian who specializes in Spanish art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, will deliver the fifth and LAST lecture in the of the MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas series on Monday, 11 April , at 5.30 PM in the Read More …
