Welcome to LJAN Resources, our monthly academic content roundup. We’ll be curating standout InfoDocket posts and nonfiction LJ book reviews once every month for quick access to news and reviews you can use.
From the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, United Nations: The 3rd United Nations Open Science Conference [is scheduled] from 8 to 10 February 2023 (9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. New York Time). It is organized by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library of the United Nations Department of Global Communications in collaboration with the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Division of Sustainable Development Goals, and UNESCO’s Division of Science Policy and Capacity-Building.
From a JSTOR Announcement: Launching as a pilot, Path to Open libraries will contribute funds to enable participating presses to publish new books that will transition from licensed to open access within three years of publication. The initial pilot will produce about one thousand open access monographs. If successful, it will lay the foundation for an entirely new way to fund long-form scholarship while vastly increasing its impact.
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From the Yale School of Public Health: Say hello to Jot: a free, open-source web application that matches manuscripts in the fields of biomedicine and life sciences with suitable journals, based on a manuscript’s title, abstract, and (optionally) citations. Developed by the Townsend Lab at the Yale School of Public Health, Jot gathers a wealth of data on journal quality, impact, fit, and open access options that can be explored through a dashboard of linked, interactive visualizations.
From the Association of Research Libraries (ARL)/: As part of ARL’s Research Library Impact Framework initiative, the University of California, Irvine (UCI) Libraries used its humanities core program—a year-long undergraduate freshman course that introduces students to the development of scholarly research using primary and secondary source resources—to answer the research question, “When students ‘see themselves’ represented in archives, do they experience an affective response that has an effect on how and what they learn through primary source literacy workshops?”
Here’s the Full Text of Today’s Announcement from the Library of Congress: The Library of Congress’s American Folklife Center is pleased to announce the second recipient cohort of the Community Collections Grant program. Launched by the Library’s Of the People: Widening the Path initiative, this series of grants is awarded to individuals and organizations working to document cultures and traditions of Black, Indigenous and communities of color historically underrepresented in the United States and in the Library’s collections.
From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Years of painstaking and often emotional collecting and curating became tangible to the public Tuesday with the launch of an online archive documenting the Oct. 27, 2018, attack on the Tree of Life synagogue and the immense outpouring it sparked. The online archive, october27archive.org, is still in its infancy, featuring 150 specially selected documents, screen captures and photos. It was created by the Heinz History Center’s Rauh Jewish History Program and Archive, which has also overseen the entire documentation and archival process.
Discover Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts which combines visual inspiration with practical advice on everything from idea generation and research techniques to portfolio development – making this the ultimate guide to a visual arts education.
This thoroughly researched work is highly recommended for readers interested in the history of Christian missions to China. The inclusion of biographical information for many of the people involved enhances the text.
This book focuses on the informative and archaeological aspects of swords, not violence. It will likely please readers who are fascinated by weapons and by those who would normally be hesitant to pick up a book about tools of war.
This awe-inspiring book is recommended for all academic multidisciplinary collections, especially those in business, philosophy, and psychology.
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