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Increased public access to US taxpayer funded research on the horizon
Jan 24, 2014Posted By: Dave Johnston
Happy Robbie Burns Day Week! Selected Resourses for Burns Day
Jan 21, 2014Posted By: Heidi LM Jacobs
Address to a Haggis
Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o the puddin'-race!
Aboon them a' ye tak your place,
Painch, tripe, or thairm:
Weel are ye worthy o' a grace
As lang's my arm.
Scholarship at UWindsor: A Year At a Glance
Nov 12, 2013Posted By: Mita Williams
On November 1st 2012, the Leddy Library officially launched Scholarship at UWindsor, the University of Windsor’s (UW) institutional repository (IR). The mandate of Scholarship at UWindsor is to enable researchers in our campus community to showcase, preserve and provide open-access to a wide range of scholarly and creative works.
Great article in the Lance about our Comic Book Club
Nov 12, 2013Posted By: Heidi LM Jacobs
The Lance did a nice story about Leddy's Comic Book Club. Check it out. And check out our pretty amazing selection of graphic novels on the 3rd Floor (PN 6700 call number range). It's the time of year when we need something fun and interesting to read, right?
Display at Library Entrance “Discover Food Deserts in Windsor” to Celebrate 2013 GIS Day
Nov 11, 2013Posted By: Mita Williams
GIS Day is held worldwide during Geography Awareness Week, November 17-23, 2013. As part of the celebration, the Academic Data Centre is hosting a GIS exhibit entitled "Discover Food Deserts in Windsor" running Friday, November 8 to Friday, November 22 in the Leddy Library.
Report on the impact of OA books released
Oct 23, 2013Posted By: Dave Johnston
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.
The $700+ Bibliography
Oct 21, 2013Posted By: Mita Williams
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.
Upcoming talk : A field guide to reading and writing ecosystems
Oct 21, 2013Posted By: Mita Williams
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.
Alice Munro wins the Nobel Prize for Literature: Check out some of her books from Leddy
Oct 11, 2013Posted By: Heidi LM Jacobs
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