Welcome to Open Access Week 2019
Open Access Week is a yearly celebration of all the work that goes in to making open scholarship, data, and education resources. This year’s international theme “Open for Whom?” invites us to consider equity. Whose voices are included in open scholarship? Whose work “counts”? What Is Open Access? “Open access” is a term used to […]
Explore University Libraries Digital Collections
Experience commencement 100 years ago. See Sister Jean in the early 1970s. Go to church on a boat. Read a letter from Alexander Hamilton. These are just a few of the many digital collections available on a new platform for digital collections at the University Libraries. This tool, called Preservica, allows us to manage […]
End of Semester Hours Extended and Guest Access Restrictions
Every year we extend the open hours as we reach the end of classes and beginning of final exams. All locations are open additional hours through December 15. To ensure Loyola students have most complete access to facilities, we restrict guest visitors during this time. The restriction starts at Lewis Library on November 28 for […]
Open Access Week: Affordable Textbook Awareness
During this year’s Open Access Week we asked students to share how the costs of textbooks affects them. We asked at Lewis and IC for the most students had ever paid for a textbook, and how students have cut costs. Loyola’s students share the experience of students nationwide: textbooks can cost hundreds or thousands of […]
Open Access Week 2018: Designing Equitable Foundations for Open Knowledge
For the Loyola University Chicago’s Libraries celebration of Open Access Week 2018, we wanted to focus on an issue of equity that is of utmost importance to students: the cost of textbooks. Students pay a lot of money—often in the four figures—for textbooks, an expense that’s hard to absorb on top of the other expenses […]
Screening of Paywall Documentary
Tuesday, October 23, 1:00 – 2:15 p.m. and 2:30-4:00 p.m. Information Commons 120 The library will show two screenings of the documentary Paywall: The Business of Scholarship, one at 1:00 PM, and one at 2:30 PM. The entire documentary is freely available online, and you can obtain the link from the Open Access Week page. […]