Blogs

As of 10:30 PM internet service has been restored in the library. We thank all our patrons for their patience and IT Services for their hard work.

Presently there is no internet connectivity in the Leddy Library. This is also affecting off campus access to our journals. IT Services is currently working on this problem. We apologize for the interruption in service.

In the Computer Help part of the Leddy Library website, we have a section let you know all the ways you can access library-subscribed materials from off-campus

There you can find out about Leddy Library's new Reload and UWin bookmarklet:

Drag this link to your browser's toolbar: Reload and UWin

Our library catalogue tells you a lot of things about the books that we have in our collection, but for a period of time, it didn't tell you on what floor your books were located and you had to look up each item in this table on our website: http://leddy.uwindsor.ca/call-number-locations

But that's been fixed!

It's almost the end of Open Access Week and I don't know about you, but I'm having a hard time reading large amounts of text on a Friday afternoon. If you are in the same boat, then you might appreciate these videos about Open Access.

The first is called What is Open Access and is drawn by Jorge Cham of PHD Comics:

Like so many other folks around the world, the Leddy Library is celebrating Open Access Week.

We celebrate as Open Access gains momentum in the scholarly world while recognizing that the concept of Open Access is not understood by everyone.  My favourite definition of Open Access comes from Peter Suber:

Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.

On October 10th, the Humanities Research Group hosted a reception to celebrate all professors in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences who have published scholarly books in the past two years.

If you go to Google.com today, you will see a Google Doodle that celebrates a classic comic from yesteryear: Little Nemo in Slumberland.

Of course, while today's Google Doodle is larger than normal to accommodate this famously oversized comic,  it still doesn't really do the real thing justice.

The University of Windsor and Leddy Library are excited to announce the launch of the Scholarship at UWindsor Institutional Repository. Scholarship at UWindsor is created with and maintained through the use of BePress's Digital Commons software service. Digital commons is now the leading hosted institutional repository and is used by several institutions in Canada.

Scholarly communication and academic publishing are quickly evolving and these developments are transforming the way we share research and scholarship. The Open Access movement has gained momentum and online electronic publishing is generating new avenues for communication. These changes have created opportunities for universities to increase access to the results research, develop and publish their own journals and monographs, and to share their raw data in order to enable new research.