Blogs

A report from the Netherlands was released discussing the impact of Open Access (OA) Books. The study intended to investigate the impact of OA books on conventional academic book sales.

"Between June 2011 and November 2012, fifty Open Access monographs in various subject areas were published in Open Access by nine participating publishers. For every Open Access title, the publishers provided a similar title that was published in the conventional way. Data were collected about usage, sales and costs, to study the effect of Open Access on monographs."

It's Open Access Week and to celebrate, I thought I would try to calculate how much it would cost for me to read an article and its bibliography if I couldn't rely on the subscriptions that the Leddy Library currently pays for.

Do you remember learning about ‘food webs’ in school?  Do you remember drawing the inter-connections between plants, animals, and the environment where they live?  On Friday, October 25th, at noon in Room 302 West in the Leddy Library, we’re going to try to draw a different type of web.

• Dear life : stories (2012)

• New selected stories (2011)

• Too much happiness : stories (2009)

• The view from Castle Rock : stories (2006)

Welcome and welcome back to the University of Windsor!

If you are new to campus and new to the country, we'd like to let you know that the Leddy Library will be offering tours to International Students on September 12th at 11 am and on  September 13th at 2pm.  Just meet us in the lobby of the Leddy Library to join us!

The Leddy Library has reduced the price of its network laser printing just in time for the new Fall Semester. Costs are

• 7 ¢ per side for monochrome (black and white) printing
• 26 ¢ per side for colour printing

Also of note, our black and white printers now default to double-sided printing. Single sided printing is still available; just select the option before you hit the print button.

This week, it was announced that Lawrence Hill would be writing and delivering this year's 2013 Massey Lectures and he would be speaking of Blood, the stuff of life.

A few years ago, I started a collection at NYU’s Fales Library & Special Collections to document the feminist Riot Grrrl movement in its formative and most active years, from 1989 to 1997. Originally a reaction against the failures of punk to extend its DIY model of empowerment to women, Riot Grrrl encouraged young women to form their own bands, self-publish personal stories and revolutionary agendas in zines, and carve out safe spaces in a violent, misogynist culture.

Did you see that story on the internet last week? You know, that story about the guy who figured out a way of keeping mosquitoes at bay by using a simple household fan?