Thursday, November 5th, the Boise State research community is invited for coffee and donuts in the Library’s Makerlab. Sponsored by the Office of Information Technology (OIT), researchers wanting to talk about their research activities, grant proposals, data management needs, or how they can use OIT's research computing services can find help. In addition to the open forum, Will Hughes will provide a presentation on VIP (Vertically Integrated Projects) program and how it can benefit researchers.
Albertsons Library invites the community to view two special displays and a lecture to be held in honor of Veterans Day. Starting November 2nd, a display of Vietnam War artifacts from the collection of Dr. David Walker, professor in the Department of History, will be available in the library lobby. From November 5th, the library will also display a collection of resources related to veterans, including some items from a collection donated by Vietnam War veteran Jim Barker.
On Veterans Day, November 11th, Dr. Walker will speak about The Battle of Ia Drang, the U.S. Army's first battle with the North Vietnamese Army. The lecture is free and will take place in the Frank Church Room of Special Collections and Archives, 2nd floor of the library.
Today kicks off a weeklong event in honor of Open Access! Open Access is “the free, immediate, online availability of research articles, coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment” (SPARC). One of our favorite resources for explaining Open Access is this short video:
October 19th – October 25th you can join students, faculty, researchers, and citizens from around the world to learn about the benefits of Open Access. Open Access has made some headlines this year. Maybe you heard about publishing giant Elsevier’s new policy which creates barriers to open sharing of scholarly work? Or FASTR – new legislation for Fair Access to Science and Technology Research, or the new Open Library of Humanities.
To us, every week is Open Access week! Albertsons Library supports Open Access by working to make Boise State publications freely available to anyone in the world. Visit scholarworks.boisestate.edu to read over 5,000 faculty publications, 900 thesis and dissertations, and many other types of scholarly work. Watch our readership map to see these documents being downloaded all over the world. With almost 1.5 million downloads, we know people are finding and reading Boise State scholarship! http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/readership_map.html#content
Follow the conversation at #oaweek and #openaccess on Twitter and check out http://www.openaccessweek.org/. You can also follow and tweet @OpenBoiseState to tell us what you would like to know about Open Access at Boise State.
We are very excited to roll out a new line of accessibility devices
today! We have an ergonomic keyboard, a high contrast keyboard, and a
trackball mouse now available at the circulation desk. They will check
out until 11:30 PM, for daily, in-library use.
