Elizabeth South

Elizabeth South

2025 Course Material Transformation Fellowship Winners

2025 Course Material Transformation Fellowship Winners

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The Center for Faculty Development and the Campus Library would like to congratulate Tim Scales from the School of Business and Dr. Young You from the School of Natural Science and Mathematics for being awarded the Course Material Transformation Fellowship! This fellowship supports instructors in their efforts to adopt and create affordable course materials, including open educational resources (OER), library licensed content, and open access materials. The Fellowship Program aims to: Lower the cost of college for students in order to contribute to their retention, progression, and graduation. Encourage the development of alternatives to high-cost textbooks by supporting the adoption, adaptation, and creation of Open Educational Resources (OER) Make course material access on the first day of class a reality … Continued
National Library Week 2025, April 7-11

National Library Week 2025, April 7-11

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Currently, the entire staff of The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has been placed on administrative leave. Despite Congress’ support to continue funding this agency, President Trump signed an executive order to begin dismantling IMLS. This small agency, which only receives about 0.005% of the annual federal budget, greatly impacts communities across the country. IMLS awards grants to museums and libraries to support programs such as job training, psychological and wellness needs, collection preservation and exhibits, disability services, climate change preparations, reading programs and bookmobiles, and basic library services such as access to internet, technology, and digital books (Limbong, 2025; Curlin, 2025). Attacks on libraries and librarians are nothing new in recent years, but with the disheartening announcement … Continued
Celebrating Open 2025: The CMT Fellowship

Celebrating Open 2025: The CMT Fellowship

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At the time of writing this blog, it is Open Education (OE) Week 2025. OE Week is a worldwide celebration held the first week of March that connects and inspires practitioners, educators, students, and communities that support and promote open educational practices. Open educational practices are teaching and learning methods that use open technologies and resources to encourage collaboration and flexibility as well as affordability and equity across education. In honor of OE Week, the Campus Library would like to highlight one of our own successful open education-centered programs. In collaboration with IU East’s Center for Faculty Development, the Course Material Transformation (CMT) Fellowship is one example of how the Campus Library is supporting instructors in their efforts to flip … Continued
Publish Open Access with Cambridge University Press

Publish Open Access with Cambridge University Press

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The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA), in which Indiana University is a part of, and Cambridge University Press (CUP) have agreed on a new 3-year Read and Publish license deal (2024-2026) for CUP journals. This deal includes: Reading: Access to all CUP journals (over 400) at a price similar to or slightly higher than what campuses were paying for fewer journals. This includes permanent access to journal content published during the agreement period. Publishing: No fees for authors from your campuses to publish open access research articles in CUP’s gold OA and hybrid journals. There are no limits on this. This agreement not only benefits participating campuses immediately but also supports a fairer scholarly system. Articles published under this deal will be … Continued
Here’s the (Lib)Key to Quick Article Access

Here’s the (Lib)Key to Quick Article Access

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The IU East Campus Library subscribes to an excellent service that brings students and faculty straight to the articles they want by providing instant access and eliminating paywalls. LibKey is a suite of tools that help researchers locate and view research articles with fewer clicks. There are three LibKey features that IU East researchers can take advantage of: LibKey Nomad, LibKey.io, and BrowZine. LibKey Nomad LibKey Nomad is a browser extension that you can add to any of your favorite browsers that will help you locate and access articles when searching websites outside of the library databases, such as Google Scholar, PubMed, Wikipedia, and more, potentially bypassing paywalls, broken links, or other access barriers. It’s very easy to do. Go … Continued