Thank you!

Thank you everyone who took part in our International Open Access Week quizzes, October 24-28. Answers and winners of the Kindles will be announced the week of October 31.

International Open Access Week: Win a Kindle

Free and open access to scientific and scholarly research benefits everyone. It can also win you a Kindle.

Do you know about Open Access? During Open Access Week, October 24-29, Macalester community members can enter the library's Kindle prize drawing by submitting correct answers to our daily quiz. We will award Kindles to one faculty member, one staff member, and one student. Not sure of the answers? Look online, or come to the library to see our Open Access display.

Friday's quiz

International Open Access Week: Win a Kindle

Free and open access to scientific and scholarly research benefits everyone. It can also win you a Kindle.

Do you know about Open Access? During Open Access Week, October 24-29, Macalester community members can enter the library's Kindle prize drawing by submitting correct answers to our daily quiz. We will award Kindles to one faculty member, one staff member, and one student. Not sure of the answers? Look online, or come to the library to see our Open Access display.

Thursday's quiz

International Open Access Week: Win a Kindle

Free and open access to scientific and scholarly research benefits everyone. It can also win you a Kindle.

Do you know about Open Access? During Open Access Week, October 24-29, Macalester community members can enter the library's Kindle prize drawing by submitting correct answers to our daily quiz. We will award Kindles to one faculty member, one staff member, and one student. Not sure of the answers? Look online, or come to the library to see our Open Access display.

Wednesday's quiz

International Open Access Week: Win a Kindle

Free and open access to scientific and scholarly research benefits everyone. It can also win you a Kindle.

Do you know about Open Access? During Open Access Week, October 24-29, Macalester community members can enter the library's Kindle prize drawing by submitting correct answers to our daily quiz. We will award Kindles to one faculty member, one staff member, and one student. Not sure of the answers? Look online, or come to the library to see our Open Access display.

Tuesday's quiz

International Open Access Week: Win a Kindle

Free and open access to scientific and scholarly research benefits everyone. It can also win you a Kindle.

Do you know about Open Access? During Open Access Week, October 24-29, Macalester community members can enter the library's Kindle prize drawing by submitting correct answers to our daily quiz. We will award Kindles to one faculty member, one staff member, and one student. Not sure of the answers? Look online, or come to the library to see our Open Access display.

Monday's quiz

Study Away Photo Contest Ends October 30th!

It is time again for the Fall Study Away Photo Contest! Submit up to three photos, one in each category: People, Environment, or Culture. Photos will be displayed in the Campus Center from 11/12-11/27. On Sunday, 11/13, there will be a small reception in the upstairs of the Campus Center.

One winner will be selected from each category. Campus Programs will frame the winning photos and they will be hung in Markim Hall until the next round of Study Away Contests.

Photos must be submitted no later than October 30th at midnight.

Submit Photos & See More Details

Next Week is Open Access Week!

What is Open Access?

In short, open access means access to scientific and scholarly research:

• Online
• Free of Charge
• Free of Licensing Restrictions

More information on Open Access from the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Research Coalition (SPARC).

10/17: WorldCat Service Down

The Macalester WorldCat Local service is intermittently out of service this morning. We are working with OCLC, our service provider, to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. In the meantime, you may want to use CLICnet CLassic, our traditional library catalog: http://clicnet.clic.edu/ to find books and journals in our collection. To find journals, you can also use the JournalFinder.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

(Updated: 9:47am, October 17, 2011)

Professors Jim Dawes and Diana Shandy did a fabulous presentation on the MacReads Common Reading, "What is the What" during orientation week. Prof. Adrienne Christiansen moderated. Watch the video