Library Forum – Mandatory Open Access: Friend or Foe?

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The University of Connecticut Libraries Scholarly Communications and Forum Teams cordially invite you to a public forum on the various ramifications of an important new development in scholarly publishing. “Mandatory Open Access: Friend or Foe? Coming to Terms with National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Federal Research Public Access Act legislation”  The event will explore the impacts of the newly passed NIH public access mandate on scholarly societies, publishing and the peer review process.The mandate, which became law in December, 2007, requires that journal articles resulting from NIH-funded research to be made freely available to the public within 12 months after publication.  The forum will also look at proposed legislation such as the 2006 Federal Research Public Access Act, which would expand that mandate to include research funded by other U.S. government agencies. Additional informational links about the NIH Public Access Policy from NIH, SPARC and ARL:

 See also:  http://www.lib.uconn.edu/about/publications/scholarlycommunication.htmlMandatory Open Access: Friend or Foe? Coming to Terms with National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Federal Research Public Access Act legislationMarch 26 from 3 to 5 p.m. in Konover Auditorium in the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, Storrs, Ct campus.  

Plagiarism Discussion

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The SOURCE Writing Center presents a discussion concerning

PLAGIARISM……knowing what it is…knowing how to avoid it.

It’s a word we hear thrown about a lot at the university. It’s the most serious concern of faculty and administrators. Now students will have a chance to learn more about the idea of academic dishonesty and how to avoid it while having the opportunity to ask questions about their own concerns.

We will hold two discussions:

MARCH 17th @ 3 p.m. in the Library’s e-classroom

&

APRIL 14th @ 3 p.m. in the Library’s e-classroom

Hope to see you there!

 

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Information Center hours for Spring Break 2008

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The Information Center hours for Spring Break 2008 are as follows:

·        Monday, March 10th through Thursday, March 13th

8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

·        Friday, March 14th

8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

·        Saturday, March 15th

Information Desk will be closed

·        No Shuttle Bus service during Spring Break

The Information Center and the Shuttle Bus will return to its normal business hours on Monday, March 17th.

Please note that this schedule only relates to the Information Center and the Campus Building hours will remain the same.

Affordable textbooks on the way

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The U.S. House of Representatives has just passed a very important piece of legislation to help bring transparency to the textbook market. read more at Stingy Scholar blog.

The College Opportunity and Affordability Act (H.R. 4137) includes three critical provisions to help students deal with textbook prices.
  • First, it requires publishers to tell faculty the price of textbooks when professors are choosing books for their classes.

  • Second, the bill makes publishers sell the parts of bundled textbooks separately.

  • Third, the bill encourages colleges to give students course booklists the semester before the class starts so they can shop around and look for better deals.

RefWork Workshops offered in March

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The Jeremy Richard Library (JRL) will be offering several RefWorks workshops in March.
(March 3rd, 4th, 5th, 24th & 25th)
Register for a class:  http://www.lib.uconn.edu/using/tutorials/workshop/#68

 You Learn how to:

  • Create a personal RefWorks library of references by directly exporting search results from popular journal research databases;
  • Search within your RefWorks library and keep references organized with folders;
  • Generate a quick bibliography of references in APA, MLA or other bibliographic style.

Don’t have time for a workshop? Then check out these Refworks Tutorials