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OhioLINK Recommends Steps to Ensure That Ohio Research Remains Available to Ohio Scholars

Ohio faculty, scholars and researchers publish thousands of scholarly articles each year, in the world's leading scholarly journals. Yet there is no guarantee that Ohio will have access to research produced by its own scholars as the costs and quantity of scholarly journals keep rising beyond the reach of Ohio higher education. OhioLINK has released recommendations that will help authors and their institutions retain the right to disseminate their works electronically, thereby assuring access to Ohio research for the Ohio scholarly community and beyond. The recommendation document, including a sample author publication agreement, is available for downloading at www.ohiolink.edu/journalcrisis.

Some of OhioLINK’s recommendations to Ohio institutions, faculty and other researchers include:
1. Publish in journals that have responsible rights policies whenever possible.
2. Retain the non-exclusive right to make works openly accessible and usable for the author’s own non-commercial educational and research purposes.
3. Deposit works in a campus repository or the Ohio Digital Resource Commons so that those works are available to scholars in Ohio and beyond.

In making these recommendations, OhioLINK joins many organizations around the nation and the world who are seeking to protect authors’ rights to freely disseminate their own works, including the University of California, The Boston Library Consortium and the European Commission.

See the news release and the recommendation document for more details.

Web of Knowledge downtime, Saturday, Aug 26

The ISI Web of Knowledge database will be unavailable for approximately two hours, Saturday August 26, 1-3 p.m. Following this downtime, the system will have a new address. Please use this URL to re-connect: <http://rave.ohiolink.edu/databases/wok>.

The ISI Web of Knowledge includes the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.

Extra, Extra – Read All About It - Newspapers Online

Did you know you can read newspapers from Ohio and around the nation right from your desktop? America's Newspapers contains the full text for 17 Ohio newspapers, including the Akron Beacon Journal, Toledo Blade, Cincinnati Enquirer, The Cincinnati Post, Dayton Daily News and The Plain Dealer. America's Newspapers can also connect you to popular national papers like the Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Washington Post. Newspaper Source is another good place to try. It contains selected full text for 245 regional U.S. newspapers, eighteen international newspapers, six newswires, nine newspaper columns, and cover-to-cover full text for The Christian Science Monitor and The Los Angeles Times. The best part is, your library has already purchased access to these resources, so there's no subscriptions to buy and you can access the archives. Looking for more newspapers? Contact your library.

New Reference E-Books Added

Need a quick fact, illustration or overview of a topic? Try the Electronic Reference Books Collection, which now contains 490 reference books, including encyclopedias, handbooks, biographical collections and guides.

OhioLINK has recently added eight new e-books to the Electronic Reference Books Collection:

• Gun Control in the United States: A Reference Handbook
• Hip Hop Culture
• History in the Media: Film and Television
• Human Rights Worldwide: A Reference Handbook
• The Rehnquist Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy
• Revolutionary Movements: From 1750 to the Present
• Women and War: A Historical Encyclopedia from Antiquity to the Present
• World Population: A Reference Handbook

Looking for more e-books? OhioLINK has several other e-book collections including the History E-Book Project, netLibrary, Oxford Reference Online Premium Collection and the Safari Tech Books Online Collection. Your library may provide additional e-books, so be sure to ask what is available.