Students from Professor Garth Bond’s fall-term English 527: History of the Book class will be exhibiting their term projects in the Mudd Library. The exhibit opens Thursday, January 20, 2011 at 4:30pm. Come join us for refreshments and interesting conversation about the research the students have done on books housed right here in the Mudd.
Category: Research
New ways to look at old books
We have digitized images from some really cool old books for the English 527 History of the Book students. You can find them in the Selections from LU Special Collections digital image collection. The students have written abstracts about their research that you can find in the item descriptions for their book selections. Have fun!
Find A Grave
“Lover of Ugly Little Dogs.” Need a good Epitaph for that cardboard gravestone you are planting on your lawn this Halloween? Looking for a long lost relative? Check out the web site Find A Grave where you can find millions of cemetery records and some interesting pictures of gravestones.
Research advice from the Washington Post: friend a librarian!
From the Campus Overload blog in early April, but still a good idea.
Celebrate Women’s History Month with free access to Women and Social Movements
March is Women’s History Month and, to celebrate, Alexander Street Press has made the online collection, Women and Social Movements in the U.S., 1600-2000, Scholar’s Edition, freely accessible for the entire month. Enjoy!
It’s Open Access Week!
Open Access Week, October 19-23, is an “opportunity to broaden awareness and understanding of open access issues and express support for free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research.” See http://www.openaccessweek.org/ for more information about this event.
For a good introduction to open access issues, watch this Open Access 101 video from SPARC or (for a longer, technical description of OA), read the Bethesda Statement on on Open Access Publishing.
Lawrence is supporting open access in a couple of ways:
- The Mudd Library subscribes to open access journals like PLoS (Public Library of Science) Medicine and PLoS Biology, links to the Directory of Open Access Journals, and is a member of SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition). SPARC is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system.
- President Beck, along with the presidents of more than 50 other liberal arts colleges, signed an open letter supporting the Federal Research Public Access Act (S. 1373). The FRPAA would be a major step forward in ensuring equitable online access to research literature that is paid for by taxpayers. For example, research supported by the National Institutes of Health, which accounts for approximately one-third of federally funded research, produces an estimated 80,000 peer-reviewed journal articles each year.
Thomas Steitz, Lawrence ’62, wins Nobel Prize for Chemistry
Thomas Steitz, Lawrence College class of 1962, shares the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- Read the article in the New York Times.
- Search the library catalog for Thomas Steitz
- If you’re on campus, a search in Web of Science for Steitz TA will find boatloads of stuff.
- Search for Thomas Steitz on Google Scholar
- Search for Thomas Steitz on the Lawrence website
Images for Academic Publishing
Need an image for the article you are writing but don’t have time to find the image and seek permissions? Like other faculty at Lawrence, you may find what you are looking for in ARTstor. There are over 10,300 images available for academic publishing, free of charge, and coypright cleared.
“Images for Academic Publishing (IAP) seeks to facilitate scholarship in the arts by reducing the costs associated with publishing images in academic journals and similar publications. Image providers participating in IAP have supplied publication-quality images and agreed to make them available free-of-charge for use in scholarly publications.”
To read more about this from ARTstor you can go to their information page at:
http://www.artstor.org/what-is-artstor/w-html/services-publishing.shtml
If you are interested in IAP, and would like help using ARTstor please contact Colette at: colette.brautigam@lawrence.edu
Happy Birthday, John!
Tuesday, December 9 is John Milton’s quatercentenary — his 400th birthday! Woohoo! You can read some of his works in the Milton Reading Room or search for works by Milton in the library catalog or read a biography of Milton from the Dictionary of National Biography — or just party like it’s 1608.
Buried [Music] Treasure
Does trying to find music-related materials on the Web make you crazy? Try this guide to finding scores recordings, lyrics and other musical mayhem in no particular order, just to make the hunt all the more thrilling. It’s mostly free and mostly legal.