OSU Libraries News
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The Valley Library is pleased to announce that David Moynihan has accepted the Library Technician 1 position in Collection Management (75%)/Circulation Services (25%) and will begin work on Thursday, March 14. David worked previously as temporary staff in Circulation Services at the end of the Spring term of 2012. He also worked here as a student employee for about four and half years. David is a graduate of OSU, where he majored in industrial and manufacturing engineering.
OSU Libraries & Press conducted a survey of students who use our circulating laptop program. Here is a report on the results.
http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/files/LaptopSurvey2013ReportFINAL.pdf
OSU Libraries is hosting an online copyright workshop, "How Did We Get Into This Mess? Copyright and Its Discontents." Kevin L. Smith, Director of Copyright and Scholarly Communications at Duke University will be discussing copyright andy explaining why the law has been so unable to respond to the challenges of the digital age.
DATE: Wednesday, February 27
TIME: 12 – 1 p.m.
PLACE: Autzen Classroom (2nd Floor), Valley Library.
This is the first of a three-part copyright series presented by Kevin, a well-known copyright expert and Open Access advocate. Watch for more information about future workshops.
Borderless Stories shares the lives of immigrants in Rural Oregon. The exhibit is coordinated by the Rural Organizing Project (ROP) with the Immigrant Family Advocates (IFA) in Deschutes County.
Find out more on the Oregon Multicultural Archives Blog Post
Physical Display: Valley Library, Main Floor, Learning Commons Area ~ February 18-28
For More Information Contact:
Natalia Fernández, Oregon Multicultural Librarian
natalia [dot] fernandez [at] oregonstate [dot] edu
The OSU Libraries’ Oregon Multicultural Archives (OMA) assists in preserving the histories and sharing the stories that document Oregon's African American, Asian American, Latino/a, and Native American communities.
New peer-reviewed journal in the Biological and Medical sciences, PeerJ, makes access to research free to all and affordable to publish for academic authors & their institutions.
PeerJ is an Open Access publisher of scholarly articles. We aim to drive the costs of publishing down, while improving the overall publishing experience, and providing authors with a publication venue suitable for the 21st Century. Our tag line is: "Your Peers, Your Science. Academic Publishing Is Evolving" and we are committed to improving the process of scholarly publishing.
We have two publications serving the Biological and Medical sciences: "PeerJ" (a peer-reviewed academic journal) and "PeerJ PrePrints" (an innovative ‘preprint server’). Authors pay for a lifetime membership, which gives them the ability to publish their articles with us for free.
