June 2008 Archives
VCU Libraries will be closed in observance of the 4th of July holiday. James Branch Cabell Library will be closed on Friday and Saturday, July 4th and 5th. Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences will be closed Friday, July 4th through Sunday, July 6th.
A complete listing of VCU Libraries operational hours is available online.
Those interested in open access publishing can create and maintain simple factual lists about the open access movement in science and scholarship with the Open Access Directory (OAD) wiki, created by Peter Suber and Robin Peek. Suber is a Research Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College, and Peek is an Associate Professor of Library and Information Science at Simmons College. They conceived the project in order to collect OA-related lists for one-stop reference and searching.
The wiki started operating with about half a dozen lists such as-- conferences devoted to open access, discussion forums devoted to open access, and journal "declarations of independence"-- and has now grown to include...
* Acronyms
* Blogs about OA
* Disciplinary repositories
* Discussion forums
* Events
* Free and open-source journal management software
* Free and open-source repository software
* Guides for OA journal publishers
* Institutions that support open access
* Jobs in open access
* Journal declarations of independence
* Lists maintained by others
* OA by the numbers
* OA speakers bureau
* Proposed lists.
* Research in progress
* Research questions
* Services to support repository managers
* Statements by learned societies and professional associations
* Wikis about OA
To provide the best service possible to all members of the VCU community, VCU Libraries has developed new access guidelines for online resources. Walk-in visitors and members of the community are invited to access the VCU Libraries' collections and services at guest computer stations on the first floor. Simply request a one-hour password at the Circulation and Information Services desk. All other public workstations in Cabell Library are now available only to library patrons with a VCU eID. This initiative, along with the Laptop Lending Pilot Program, is part of a larger effort to increase access to computing resources for VCU affiliates and to ensure quality access to our community users. The libraries provides additional access options for visiting scholars and area high school students. To learn more, please read our Guest Access to Online Resources Policy. When implementing the new guest computer stations, some eID access computers were moved to the fourth floor
If you have questions, please contact Research and Instructional Services at: 828-1101 or 866-828-2665.
Use the HP Digital Sender to scan materials and e-mail them for free. The Sender features a flatbed scanner as well as a sheet feeder to accept documents. Send scanned materials in color or in black and white and set the document resolution from 150 to 300 dpi. Select the preferred format as well; the Sender supports PDF, TIFF, JPEG and MTIFF formats. Simply log in to the Sender with a VCU eID, scan document and send it to any e-mail address. It's easy, it's free, and it saves paper. Check out the Digital Sender in the Printing/Photocopying area of the first floor.
If you have questions, please contact Research and Instructional Services at: 804-828-1101.
From an ARL news release:
New approaches to scholarly communication are featured in the June 2008 issue of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Bimonthly Report, no. 258.
In the lead article, Duke University Scholarly Communications Officer Kevin L. Smith offers pragmatic strategies that authors and their institutions can use to manage authors' copyrights to fulfill the requirements of the new National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy. Karla L. Hahn, Director of ARL's Office of Scholarly Communication, discusses the results of her study of publishing services provided by ARL member libraries. Additionally, brief summaries are provided of the recently released SPARC-Science Commons guide to creating institutional open access policies and of ARL's new agenda for developing research library support for e-science.
