Creating open access datasets

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Resources are available for scholars who wish to create open access data sets. Read more from Milner’s Scholarly Communication Team.

Happy Public Domain Day 2022!

image from A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh cira 1926 with the anti-copyright symbol over it

On January 1, 2022, thousands of creative works published in 1926 entered the public domain following the expiration of the 95-year period of protections established by U.S. copyright law.

Open and affordable resources around the library

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Milner Library is your hub for all repository questions whether it be about open textbooks, affordable resources for research and projects, assistance making your own work more accessible. Milner’s Scholarly Communication Team works hard to reduce the costs of academic materials for users as well as provide freely accessible information to all.

Streaming in ISU ReD: Research beyond an article

An outdoor photograph of the Illinois State University Quad including flowering trees, Cook Hall, and the Old Main Bell

Most of the items uploaded to Illinois State University’s institutional repository are PDFs. But for those whose work is better showcased outside the boundaries of an article, ISU ReD has that covered, too.

Search scholarly works preserved by the Internet Archive

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Like any material, Open Access publications sometimes “disappear” from the web. Professional organizations dissolve and their conference web pages are taken down, publishers cease operations and their assets are sold or go into legal limbo, and individuals lose interest in maintaining websites and move on.