Trexler Library Scuttlebutt

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Biweekly Update from the Library
3/14/08

Recent Developments

Gale Going Electronic

We’re beginning the migration from print to electronic format for our Gale literary criticism series (the mega-series in the reference room in Trexler). We’ll start with the set Contemporary Literary Criticism this year, and then move through the other sets, one set migrated per year.

Here are all the sets to be migrated over:

  • Contemporary Literary Criticism
  • Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism
  • Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism
  • Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800
  • Classical and Medieval Literary Criticism
  • Poetry Criticism
  • Drama Criticism

This series has long been a rich source of excerpted and full-text reprints of literary criticism from journals and books. The electronic format will mean the entire text of the criticism can be searched–from a single interface that will be available through the library’s online catalog, and also from the library’s Articles A to Z page. It should be a great supplement to the MLA database.

Infomaniac Tip of the Week

Open Access (OA) is the idea that peer-reviewed research is made freely available on the internet immediately after publication. Many open access journals are listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals.

How can we support the Open Access (OA) publishing movement at Muhlenberg?

  • As students, faculty and staff, we can read and cite OA articles in our research; there are more than 2,800 peer-reviewed journals that provide free access to the full text of their articles.
  • We can share our research in these publications and encourage colleagues to do the same. More than half of peer reviewed journals permit authors to make their articles freely available after publication.
  • Most of us belong to professional organizations and serve on committees. We can ask these organizations to support OA publishing; this includes student government, learned societies, and faculty committees.
  • We can contact our elected representatives in Washington and let them know we support open access to research, especially to publicly funded research.
  • Lastly, visit Trexler Library and learn more about OA by talking to a librarian.

Calendar of Events

3/17: Book Club Meeting (Trexler Library Rare Books Room, 12:00PM-1:00PM).

3/17: Faculty Author Reception for D. Wilson (Trexler Library Fulford Room, 4:00PM-6:00PM)

3/20: Easter Break Hours

Thursday, March 20 ~ 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Friday, March 21 – Sunday, March 23 ~ closed
Monday, March 24 ~ 6:00 PM – 1:00 AM

3/28: Campus Copyright Policy Meeting (Trexler Library Curriculum Lab, 10:00AM-11:00AM)

3:28: Meditation Group (Trexler Library Rare Books Room, 5:00PM-6:00PM)