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Among the most significant actions for academia that came out of Washington DC this summer was one that will move support for Open Research in the U.S. forward by leaps and bounds. On August 25, the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) issued a policy guidance memorandum on Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research. It expands a 2013 directive to Increase Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research and provides policy…
International Open Access Week 2022 (October 24-30) is an annual worldwide celebration of the growing and transformative power of barrier-free Open Access (OA) to scholarly information. The OA movement grew in response to an increasing awareness that the current scholarly publishing system no longer meets the needs of scholars and those who could benefit from their research. Making research openly available by bringing scholarly works out from behind publisher paywalls benefits individual researchers, the wider research community, and the public…
Student Employees are the backbone of Library operations. They are also project leaders, mentors, and instructors in their own right. From teaching text mining strategies to students and faculty, to planning and curating exhibits and events reaching international audiences, our student employee team (one of the largest on campus!) is truly inspiring. But don’t take our word for it, here are a few notes from our 2022 class of Library Student Employee Scholarship recipients: Join Our Team! If these…
this post modified 10/14/22 October is packed with many special author events and exhibits you won’t want to miss. Happy fall, Huskies! Author Talks and Lectures UW Libraries Presents: A Reading and Conversation with Rena Priest Tuesday, October 18, 2022 at 6-7 p.m. This fall, the UW Libraries will host our biennial lecture series, the Maxine Cushing Gray Distinguished Lecture, to honor established prose writers, poets, playwrights, screenwriters, journalists, or critics, who are writers of sustained achievement and whose intents…
Re-posted with permission from the blog of the UW Southeast Asia Center Jackson School Alumna Elizabeth Becker has received the Harvard University Goldsmith Book Prize: Trade category and Fordham University Sperber Prize for her recent book You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War. The book tells the stories of three female journalists reporting on the Vietnam war from the field. From the publisher, Public Affairs: Kate Webb, an Australian iconoclast, Catherine Leroy, a French daredevil photographer, and Frances FitzGerald, a blue-blood…
Welcome, Huskies! While autumn quarter is still a few weeks away, UW Libraries is busier than ever with many new events, exhibits, and resources (did somebody say New York Times??!!). We kicked-off September with a special celebration of the permanent installation of the artwork Bruce Lee Ascending in Odegaard Library; a great way to usher in the start of a new academic year. Whether this is your first year, or your twenty-first year, there is something new to discover. Be…
UW Libraries is excited to announce a new trio of Zoom pods installed on the ground floor of Odegaard Library! These individual pods provide a private, sound-dampened environment to speak freely without the disturbance of surrounding building noise or other students. Each pod has outlets, individually-controlled lighting, and ventilation. Pod use guidance Pods are quiet booths intended for Zooming or phone calls that need more privacy Pods are available on a first-come, first-served basis and cannot be reserved Use is…
Welcome, Huskies! With so much information coming at you like a den of demogorgons* on the run, you may be feeling a little “upside down,” but not to worry–UW Libraries are here to make things a little less “strange” and a lot more stress-free! Like a trusted compass that will never let you down, the UW Libraries Student Guide is your gateway to the vast world of UW Libraries. Know where to get help at any hour of the day,…
Updated 7/27 UW Libraries’ summer programs are a great way to build skills in between quarters. We offer a wide range of workshops for a variety of interests and experience levels including our Open Scholarship Summer Series, Graduate Student Research Institute, Research Data Management Workshop and more! Plus, some amazing summer reads, book clubs and more. Stay cool and enjoy the summer, huskies! Operations Fall quarter hours will be confirmed and posted mid-late August. See Libraries hours through August. “Shelf…
Near the end of the academic year, UW Libraries virtually hosted the 6th annual GIS Symposium. The GIS Symposium highlights and celebrates the transformational role of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing, and data visualization technologies at the UW and beyond. While there are other GIS-focused events on campus, the UW Libraries’ GIS Symposium features interdisciplinary presentations open to all departments at the university. To those unfamiliar with GIS, UW Libraries Global Studies and Geography Librarian Kian Flynn describes it…