The Libraries have created a fund to help Carnegie Mellon authors pay Article Processing Charges (APC) to publish in open access journals – offering up to $1,500 per article, with a cap of $3,000 per author per fiscal year.  Ideally, the corresponding author’s department will also contribute to paying the APC.

Conditions for funding:

• Author cannot have grant funding that could be used to pay the APC
• Journal must provide immediate open access to all peer-reviewed articles and have a publicly available standard article fee schedule
• Journal publisher must be a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association or adhere to its Code of Conduct

How to apply:

• Submit a Request for Funding to Pay Article Processing Charges + the invoice for the APC
• See Financial Support for Open Access Publishing for further information

Copyright & Fair Use – New Resources

Copyright and Plagiarism covers Using Other People’s Copyrighted Work and Managing Your Own Copyrighted Work.

CMU’s succinct updated Fair Use Policy (April 2013) recommends balancing fair use factors ‘in the light of purposes of copyright’ and describes academic best practices for fair use.

Foreign & International Law Resources

Foreign & International Law Resources – International Yearbooks and periodicals, U.S. Law Digests, International Tribunals/Juducial Decisions, Court of Justice of the European Communities, etc.

State States: A Historical Archive

State States: A Historical Archive - This new collection includes more than 1,600 volumes and nearly 2 million pages of historical superseded state statutes. A valuable source of information for legal researchers and scholars to understand the thinking and conditions behind the creation of the historical statutes.

Call for Library Excellence Award Nominees

From now until May 10, the Library Awards Committee is accepting nominations for awards from the CMU community.

The annual Excellence Award recognizes library employees’ excellence in any of 5 areas: Citizenship, Customer Satisfaction, Innovation, Outreach, or Productivity. The Transformation Award, new this year, recognizes library employees for activities that have dramatically changed thought or action within the Libraries.

Nomination forms and library award program details.

20th Century Advice Literature

Good news! The Libraries have subscribed to Twentieth Century Advice Literature. More than a thousand pages of conduct, behavioral, advice, and etiquette literature reveal rapid and drastic changes in American life in the last century. These sorts of materials typically fell out of date quickly and were rarely collected or preserved by libraries. Much of the content was distributed by organizations only to their members and was never cataloged. Alexander Street is painstakingly collecting the literature from archives and academics around the country, with more than a third of the items in the database classified as ephemeral.

World Newsreels Online: 1929-1966

Good news! The Libraries have subscribed to World Newsreels Online. Streaming video captures full runs of key international newsreels produced during the early twentieth century. These films provide a unique – and until now largely neglected – resource, giving  scholars insight into how people learned about events that occurred during this period.