The UWM Libraries are celebrating International Open Access Week 2020 (October 19-26) by highlighting below some of the ways that we support open access publishing and discovery. MDPI The UWM Libraries recently joined MDPI’s International Open Access Program (IOAP). Founded …
To manage significant budget reductions in 2020-2021, the UWM Libraries must reduce our collection expenses by $316,600. The Libraries identified titles with high cost relative to use and solicited campus input on potential cancellations beginning in May. We shared lists of individual journal and database titles as well as titles included in the …
The UWM Libraries’ Distinctive Collections (American Geographical Society Library, Archives, and Special Collections) have reopened by appointment. For more information and a link to the appointment request form, please visit Distinctive Collections Reopening Plans.
The UWM Libraries’ Archives and Special Collections hold one of the largest collections of historical and contemporary LGBT materials in Wisconsin and the Midwest, including a rich record of Milwaukee’s LGBT communities. Topics covered in the Libraries’ LGBT Collection include …
The UWM Libraries have resumed fulfilling Interlibrary Loan (ILL) and UW System Resource Sharing requests for books and other physical items not currently available in the UWM Libraries. Availability of these services depends on operations at other libraries and delivery …
Since the closure of the physical campus in mid-March due to COVID-19, the UWM Libraries have operated primarily online, providing uninterrupted access to an extensive array of services and resources for the UWM community. Following the announcement that UWM will …
The UWM Libraries are happy to announce that Viridiana Rocha has accepted the position of LSA-Advanced in the Collection and Resource Management Division. Rocha holds a BS in information science and technology from UWM, with minors in German and Spanish. …
The UWM Libraries join Chancellor Mark Mone and the UWM community in condemning police brutality, systemic racism, and racial injustice, here in America and across the world, and at the same time proclaim our strong support of the Black Lives …
As UWM’s faculty and staff adapted to the closure of campus at mid-semester and continued to teach courses online, they also persisted with their research, which for some became the COVID-19 pandemic itself. Below is a list of publications by …
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic closure, the UWM Libraries have continued to provide a high level of service to the UWM community in many ways, including the electronic fulfillment of requests for journal articles and book chapters through interlibrary loan (availability …
