Wednesday, October 31, 2012

OA Quiz Answers and Winners

Open Access Quiz Winners
Thank you to everyone who entered the library’s Open Access Week prize drawing last week. Please contact the library if you have any question about what your options are for making your scholarship accessible to scholars across the world.

The prize winners are:

Kindle Fire
  • Kimberly Goodnight, Student
Open Access T-shirts
  • Imogen Pursch, Student
  • Erin Porter, Student
  • Beth Severy-Hoven, Faculty
  • Ryan Sutley, Student
  • Keri Ann Yatogo, Student
The Correct Answers
Open access means that online access to the information is unrestricted and free of charge. 

Himalaya, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, is the most frequently accessed journal in Digital Commons, Macalester's open access repository. Articles have been downloaded from this journal approximately 104,000 times.

True: Publishing or adding a research article to Macalester’s Digital Commons gives it a permanent online home, makes it findable via Google, and increases readership and visibility.

Professor Joan Ostrove’s article “Social class and belonging: Implications for college adjustment” has been downloaded 2,252 times from Macalester’s Digital Commons.

True: The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) lists over 8,200 journals and provides access to over 916,000 open access articles.

True: Federal law requires an electronic version of final, peer-reviewed manuscripts that are results of research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to be submitted to PubMed Central within 12 months of publication.

SciFinder Scholar, a major research tool in the chemical sciences, indexes articles from over 10,000 journals. The average 2012 price of a chemistry journal title is $4,227.

Monday, October 29, 2012

It's Sustainability Awareness Week!

What can you do to celebrate our campus commitment to creating a smaller Mac footprint?
  • Buy a onesie
  • Learn a new print-less technique. 
  • Share a bike
  • Read Stuffed and Starved by Raj Patel, and come to Friday's Sustainability Book Club meeting.
  • Nominate your professor to be recognized as a Sustainable Scholar
  • Use our Sustainable Scholar nomination form to tell us the great things Mac faculty are doing in your classroom to be sustainable. You might win a pizza party for your prof and your class. 
  • Check out our kiosk display and web site to learn more about the ways the library and other departments are collaborating toward the goal of zero waste. 
  • Drop in at one of our trick and treats hands-on happenings at the library's new MediaScape this week. 
Watch the Piper and the library home page for our trick and treats schedule and more information.

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Open Access Week: Thursday's Quiz

Do you know about Open Access? There's still time for Mac community members to enter our Kindle Fire prize drawing by submitting correct answers to our daily quiz. The winner will be determined by random drawing from the correct entries. Not sure of the answers? Look online or come to the library to see our Open Access display.

Thursday's Quiz

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Open Access Week: Wednesday's Quiz

Do you know about Open Access? During Open Access Week, October 22-28, submit correct answers to our daily quiz to be entered into a drawing for one Kindle Fire or one of five open access-themed T-shirts. The winners will be determined by random drawings from the correct entries. Not sure of the answers? Look online, guess, or come to the library and check out our Open Access display.

Wednesday's Quiz

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Open Access Quiz: Win a Kindle

Do you know about Open Access? During Open Access Week, October 22 through 28, submit correct answers to our daily quiz to be entered into a drawing for one Kindle Fire or one of five open access-themed T-shirts. The winners will be determined by random drawings from the correct entries. Not sure of the answers? Look online, guess, or come to the library and check out our Open Access display.

Tuesday's Quiz

Monday, October 22, 2012

International Open Access Week: Win a Kindle from the Library

Do you know about Open Access? During Open Access Week, October 22 through 28, submit correct answers to our daily quiz to be entered into a drawing for one Kindle Fire or one of five open access-themed T-shirts. The winners will be determined by random drawings from the correct entries. Not sure of the answers? Look online, guess, or come to the library and check out our Open Access display. Monday's Quiz

International Open Access Week, Oct 22-28

Free and open access to scientific and scholarly research benefits everyone.The Dewitt Wallace Library will celebrate Open Access with several events in the next week, including an online quiz and contest (first prize: a Kindle Fire), button making, and a copyright workshop. Watch next week's Daily Piper for more information.

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Donate Winter Clothing and More!

The DeWitt Wallace Library staff is gathering donations for the students of Wellstone International High School, named in honor of Paul and Shelia Wellstone. We will have a box for donations at the SAC Luncheon and in the library until the end of October.

Wellstone International High School is designed to serve students ages 14 to 22 who have limited to no English language skills. Wellstone also helps students get accustomed to their new country and educational system. Read More

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Mobile Users: Try the New Library Mobile Site!

m.macalester.edu/library


The library recently launched a new mobile-optimized website.  It is a website designed to work well on mobile browsers and it includes a mobile-friendly WorldCat Local search, as well as links to research databases, contact options including a mobile chat option, and news and events.

The library's mobile site can be found in the Academics section in the College's new mobile site. 
We are interested in your feedback about this new service. You may contact Ask Us or Johan Oberg, Digital Scholarship and Services Librarian, with any questions or comments.

Tuesday, October 09, 2012

"An idea that is not dangerous..."

"...is unworthy of being called an idea at all." - Oscar Wilde.
Thank you to everyone who participated in our efforts to raise awareness of Banned Books Week, October 1-October 7. Below is a photo from Thursday evening's public reading event in the Harmon Room.