A new agreement between Milner Library and Taylor & Francis offers the Illinois State community access to the publisher’s Education Collection of scholarly journals, as well as an allotment of Open Access publishing fee waivers for Illinois State authors.
This guidance will assist federal agencies conducting research on how to understand Indigenous Knowledge, fostering relationships with Indigenous people, and applying Indigenous knowledge in federal research and other areas.
Milner Library continues to expand both access to journals and opportunities for ISU faculty to publish their research Open Access without paying processing fees.
Researchers can access all Illinois State University’s yearbooks online from the comfort of their homes through the Internet Archive.
For those wishing to take a deeper dive into the current state of scholarly communications, there are several conferences dedicated to that topic.
Did you know that Milner Library provides access to several collections of Open Access books, equating to thousands of titles?
Scholarly communication as a discipline has many logical places where its work fits into academia; however, it also impacts many other parts of our world.
Milner Library offers the tool LibKey Nomad to help connect you to the research you need.
While Open Access can provide solutions to some issues in scholarly publishing, there is no universal solution that is best for every journal and publisher. Two prominent journals which transferred to Open Access in very different ways can help illustrate how it can be implemented differently depending on the needs of the journal, publisher, authors, and readers.
While we often discuss the positive aspects of Scholarly Communications and Open Access (OA), we also need to consider areas where it can be improved for authors and readers or even where policies can have unintended and undesirable consequences.
