Members of the Brown community and the general public are invited to attend a series of events related to Wilma Mankiller and Native American and Indigenous Studies: Wednesday, November 8 Native American and Indigenous Special Collections 4 p.m. in the Special Collections Reading Room at the John Hay Library, 20 Prospect St. View recently acquired … “Mankiller” – Film, Special Collections, Discussion
October is LGBTQ History Month! Your Brown University Library is highlighting Queer Pasts as its Electronic Resource of the Month. Queer Pasts is a new digital queer history project consisting of primary source document collections and curatorial essays. Queer Pasts seeks to broaden the field of queer history by prioritizing projects that focus on the experiences and … Queer Pasts: Eresource of the Month – October 2023
John Carter Brown Library The John Carter Brown Library is a private institution, located on the campus of Brown University, that is home to an unparalleled collection of rare books, maps, prints, and manuscripts related to the early Americas. Since the 1910s, the JCB has maintained a rich tradition of reproducing its materials across a … The JCB’s Americana and Open Access
On November 8 and 9, 2023, the John Hay Library, the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, and the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative present programming related to Native American and Indigenous activism and political engagement. The events are free and open to the public. Native American and Indigenous Special Collections Wednesday, … MANKILLER: Film, Special Collections, Panel
Please tell your Brown University Library about your on-site experience during the week of October 30 – November 5, 2023 — Library Stats Quest Week! Did you know that nearly 20,000 users visit the libraries in-person every week? We want to know if the experiences you’re having are meeting your needs. After each visit this … Library Stats Quest Week – Fall 2023
Guest post by: Sanjay Mishra, MS, PhDResearch Associate, Warren Alpert Medical SchoolResearch Program Manager, Center for Clinical Cancer Informatics and Data Science (CCIDS), Lifespan Cancer Institute, Rhode Island HospitalCoordinator, COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium (CCC19.org)https://vivo.brown.edu/display/smishr36 Jeremy L. Warner MD, MS, FAMIA, FASCOProfessor of MedicineAssociate Director of Data Science, Legorreta Cancer CenterDirector, Brown/Lifespan Center for Clinical Cancer … HemOnc.org: A Wiki for Hematology/Oncology Professionals and People with Cancer
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
