No Article Processing Charges Brown authors who wish to publish journal articles “immediate open access” will not be charged article processing charges with these publishers: Many authors would like to immediately publish their scholarly articles open access but are deterred by the article processing charge (APC) assessed by publishers — sometimes as high as thousands … No Article Processing Charges
Brown’s First Open Access Policy In the summer of 2021 the Brown Faculty voted to adopt the University’s first Open Access Policy, in which the faculty commits to making a version of their journal articles available open access online free to read. This could either be via the sharing of a pre-peer reviewed manuscript on … Brown’s Faculty Open Access Policy
Frank Donnelly (Head of Library GIS and Data Services) and his team of student workers at GeoData@SciLi recently released the Ocean State Spatial Database (OSSDB), a geodatabase for conducting basic geographic analysis and thematic mapping within the State of Rhode Island. This open source database is intended to serve as a foundation for contemporary mapping … The Ocean State Spatial Database
You may have heard of Open Access Week: well, this year the Brown University Library is bringing you Open October! Rather than focusing on Open Access for just one week, we’re inspired by our colleagues at Washington University in St. Louis, and will be talking about Open@Brown throughout the month. During October, we’ll be sharing … Welcome to Open October 2023
Join the John Hay Library for two events spotlighting LGBTQ+ history in celebration of National Coming Out Day! Hands-on LGBTQ+ exhibition Wednesday, October 11, 2023 @ 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Explore pulp fiction, photographs, activist ephemera, meeting records, and more from the Library’s special collections. Plus enjoy refreshments and take home a button featuring … Coming Out Day @ The Hay
Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Portrait of Mass Incarceration exhibit Opening: Thursday, September 28, 2023 at 4:30 p.m.Runs through July 19, 2024John Hay Library, 20 Prospect St., Providence RIHours Mumia Abu-Jamal is a poet, writer, musician, scholar, historian, archivist, public radio producer, journalist, painter, and public intellectual, who has been incarcerated for 40-plus years. His story, collections, … “Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Portrait of Mass Incarceration” Exhibit
Providence, R.I. [Brown University] Brown University Digital Publications (BUDP) has been invited to join the Association of University Presses, an organization of nearly 160 international nonprofit scholarly publishers. Since 1937, AUPresses advances the essential role of a global community of publishers whose mission is to ensure academic excellence and cultivate knowledge. The Association holds intellectual … Brown University Digital Publications Joins the Association of University Presses
The Brown University Library is now accepting proposals for the Gardner Fellowship, aimed at fostering in-depth and creative research using rare East Asian materials. Application deadline extended to November 6! This initiative aims to: We invite student fellows to explore our collections and create original scholarship by going beyond traditional linguistic and subject boundaries. Their … Announcing Brown Library’s Gardner Fellowship
VOICES OF MASS INCARCERATION: A SYMPOSIUM Wednesday, September 27 – Friday, September 29, 2023 Please note that registration has closed for in-person attendance at the symposium. You can register to join the waitlist, and register to attend virtually. No registration is required to attend the exhibit opening. Registration required @ voicesofmassincarceration.eventbrite.com NOTE: In-person attendance on … Voices of Mass Incarceration: A Symposium
Library group study rooms are available for reservation in the Rockefeller Library and — new this semester — the Sciences Library! View and reserve the available study rooms online at libcal.brown.edu/reserve/groupstudy. The SciLi’s group study rooms are located in the Friedman Center on level A. The Rock’s rooms are on levels 1 and 2. Signs … Reserve Group Study Rooms in the Rock and SciLi
