Blogs

The results of Canada's Tri-Agency open access policy consultation have been released and are available on their website. Given the impact this policy will have on University of Windsor researchers, I'd like to provide a few comments on the policy and consultation results from a Windsor perspective.

Predatory publishers who attempt to take financial advantage of academics seeking a home for their research have been a growing concern in the scholarly publishing world. In a recent post from from Scholarly Open Access: Critical analysis of scholarly open-access publishing, the issue predatory publishers and hijacked journals was raised. From the site:

Romanticism: Life, Literature & Landscapes offers students and researchers of the Romantic period unique access to over 2,500 art pieces as well as documents, manuscripts, correspondence, and travel journals of  William Wordsworth and his fellow writers.

Virtual Resources

Global Commodities Trade, Exploration & Cultural Exchange contains resources on the history of key commodities that have been exchanged and consumed around the world for hundreds of years. In addition to Interactive Charts, Maps and Data this resource include wide range of primary-source materials such as Original Records, Photographs, Maps and Advertisements.

Chronology

-"We Can Do It!" an American wartime propaganda poster produced by J. Howard Miller

Today is International Women's Day. To emphasis the valuable contributions that women have had to Canada's history, and to the quality of our lives in the 21^st century Leddy Library has created a subject guide to highlight some of the libraries resources on Women's History.

Biographies

Half of taxpayer funded research will soon be available to the public

Similar to the National Institutes of Health open access policy that requires all the research they fund to be made publicly available within 12 months, other federal agencies in the US will soon require the research they fund to be made available open access.