This post was written in collaboration with Abirami Muthukumar, Digitization Assistant, and Sarah Severson, Digital Projects Librarian. This is a 3-part series on the Digitization of SEE Magazine and VUE Weekly. In the first part, we gave you an overview of the project, and answer the “how.”  In this part, we outline a short history of the publications (the “what”).  The third part closes out the series with the “why”! The Papers…

Business research is different from other library research methods, since business information is varied. In contrast to many academic disciplines that primarily focus on scholarly articles and books, business research uses these resources as well as industry & market reports, company profiles & financials, trade publications, information from financial markets and many other information sources.   With so many types of business information and places to access it, no wonder it can be…

Today we are shining a light on resources reflecting the rich culture of Iran as well as their ongoing struggle for women’s rights.  A few weeks ago a young Iranian woman by the name of Mahsa Amini was arrested for wearing a hijab too loosely. Three days later she was dead. Mahsa Amini’s death resulted in a series of large-scale protests in Iran and an international call for change – freedom and…

This post was written by Librarian, Janice Kung Predatory publishing, also known as deceptive publishing or questionable publishing, is an exploitative academic publishing business model that takes advantage of the open access model by charging publication fees (article processing charges, or APCs) to authors when manuscripts are accepted for publication. While this is a regular practice with open access journals, predatory journals forgo the quality peer-review and editorial processes that are expected…