This is the third in a series of interviews conducted by the Woodruff Library with the 2016-2017 Woodruff Library and Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) Fellows. Organized by the Laney Graduate School, the Woodruff Library, the Rose Library and Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) award fellowships to advanced graduate students expecting to complete their dissertations Read More …
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 tips to get you started. To explore all of our databases, please visit Emory Library’s databases page. Featured databases: Newspapers.com and NewspaperArchive are two Read More …
This is the second in a series of interviews conducted by the Woodruff Library with the 2016-2017 Woodruff Library and Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) Fellows. Funded by the Laney Graduate School School, the Woodruff Library and Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) awards fellowships to advanced graduate students expecting to complete their dissertations by Read More …
We hope you’ve enjoyed this month’s posts on “Open in Action” from the Scholarly Communications Office. We’ve talked about open access at Emory, the benefits of using OpenEmory, plus how to increase your scholarly impact and manage your author’s rights. Today, we close our series by turning our attention to Open Data. There is an Read More …
This is the first post in a series of interviews conducted by the Woodruff Library with the 2016-2017 Woodruff Library and Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) Fellows. Funded by the Laney Graduate School School, the Woodruff Library and Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) awards fellowships to advanced graduate students expecting to complete their dissertations Read More …
So far, in our Open Access Week blog series, we’ve discussed what “open access” is and how it can increase your scholarly impact, and you might be ready to have us deposit all your articles into OpenEmory . Today, we’ll switch gears and focus on your legal rights as an author and how managing those Read More …
If you’ve been following our Open Access Week blog series, you now have an overview of Open Access at Emory and why faculty should use OpenEmory, Emory’s open access repository of faculty scholarship. Do you wonder how you might get started publishing your scholarship open access? Today, we’ll explore how to identify and evaluate open Read More …
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 …
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 …
