Open Access Journal Publishing Fund

The University of Connecticut Libraries have established an Open Access Author Fund. If you publish articles in fully open access journals, or are considering doing so, you may be eligible to be reimbursed for a portion of the OA publication fee to the author.

Participating authors must publish in fully open access, peer-reviewed journals.  The funds are available to any UConn faculty, post doctoral researcher, staff member or graduate student author, but the applicant must be the corresponding author and must have that UConn affiliation. The published article must also be made available in DigitalCommons@UConn, our institutional repository.

 Reimbursement is up to $1250 per article but the author must exhaust other funding avenues prior to applying to the OA fund. This fund is co-sponsored by the UConn Libraries, the UConn Health Center Library and the Vice President for Research.

 Further information is available at the Open Access Fund Libguide: http://uchc.libguides.com/OA_AuthorFund  If you have questions you can contact your liaison or write to the Libraries’ Scholarly Communication Team at Scholarlycommlib@listserv.uconn.edu.

Find Everything in the Libraries’ Collections with One Search

Find Everything in the Libraries’ Collections with One Search

The Libraries have introduced a new search tool that will enable users to do just one search to find the resources they need.

Functioning as a library catalog, a journal locator, a database locator, and a large full-text article database, the new search tool enables users to enter terms into a web-like search box to obtain licensed content from the Libraries’ entire collection. Previously, users were required to search in multiple locations or fields, depending on the type of information they sought. The technology behind the new search tool is called “Summon(tm),” and is provided by Serials Solutions(r), a business unit of ProQuest(r).

To use the new all-encompassing search tool, labeled “Everything @ UConn,” just insert a topic of interest. Users may then refine their search and specify parameters such as content type, subject, or date. For a more sophisticated search by, for example, author or journal title, users should use the “Advanced Search” option.

To try the tool, go to:

http://www.lib.uconn.edu

Please let us know what you think. Send your feedback to: http://bit.ly/zZenMG

If assistance is needed while searching, users may contact a librarian via chat, text, e-mail, phone, or in person, at: http://www.lib.uconn.edu/help/askHomer/

For more information, please visit:

http://www.lib.uconn.edu/help/summonabout.html

Request items from UConn Libraries

Many of you already know how to request an item from another UConn library.  There is a slight change.  You can now request that something on the Avery Point library shelves be put on hold for you and pulled from the stacks and put on our hold shelf.  The main thing is when you find an AvPt item in Homer (the UConn library catalog) choose “Request Item” and indicate you want it delivered to us.  We will see the request and pull the item for you.

 

For more complete information check: http://www.lib.uconn.edu/services/ill/RequestService.htm

Faculty resources workshop – Oct. 24th

1.  General web site navigation – Databases and more

2. LibGuides  (http://classguides.lib.uconn.edu/all )

3. Faculty resources on LibGuides (http://classguides.lib.uconn.edu/index.php?gid=32 ) (navigation of same, back button doesn’t work – Firefox and IE opens new page)

4. Keeping current with your research http://classguides.lib.uconn.edu/alerts

5. ILLIAD – interlibrary loan

6. Ask a Librarian – Chat (not just Avery Pt. Librarian, whomever is on duty)

Avery Point Librarians:  Beth Rumery 860-405-9148, Jan Heckman 860-405-9291, Barbara Vizoyan 860-405-9146

7. Virtual PC’s (http://vpc.uconn.edu/ ) – Chrome and Safari only browsers supported -  NetId  and password is login

8. Office for Sponsored Programs (OSP) (http://osp.uconn.edu/ ) – funding site, and possible new funding search resource COS Pivot (faculty) – considered better by a library team

9. Open access journal funding, more to come, possibly in December.

10. Collection development – suggest items to purchase

11. Library Blog – you are here but can  subscribe so you will be notified by email  of new posts.  Should not create many messages, a few each semester.

Keeping Current with Your Research

A guide to staying current with new research in your field through saved searches, alerts, and RSS feeds

http://classguides.lib.uconn.edu/alerts

Learning Community Workshop – book talk

Learning Community Book Talk”Falling Man”

by Don DeLillo
“the legacy of the September 11th psyche on NY City and the U.S>”

Sept. 27th – Tuesday 12:15-1:15 – Room ACD 304
PDF poster
Falling Man Poster

Equipment Loans at AvPt Library

Need to do a oral history project, or record an interview

Library has equipment loans that could help.

Besides headphones we have a digital voice recorder and microphone.

check out - http://lib.uconn.edu/libraries/averypoint/AvPt_equip_loans.html

Printing in the Library !!!

Avery Point Students,

Need to print a paper? Lab report? Flyers for your club? Stop on by the Avery Point Library and get your print on!
Just come ready with your Husky OneCard (with money on it). The cost is $0.10 per sheet. Need help? Just ask any of the library staff.

If you haven’t put money on your card yet, stop by the Avery Point Co-Op or visit onecard.uconn.edu!

Good luck this semester!
–Avery Point Library

NEW and Improved – interlibrary loan web page

A much clearer more logical inter-library loan page now on UConn Libraries homepage.  If you have the old one bookmarked change to: http://www.lib.uconn.edu/services/ill/

 

NEW Student Center at Avery Point

Check out the drawing of the new Student Center to be built at Avery Point.

Full article at http://today.uconn.edu/blog/2011/07/new-construction-slated-for-avery-point/#.Th5OjaFy9fY.email

Artist rendering