A UWM Libraries’ initiative to provide e-textbooks for almost 15% of the courses offered at UWM during the 2023-24 year ensured that all students taking those classes had access to their textbooks on the first day. The initiative’s success has …
UWM Libraries have entered into a transformative agreement with the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) that will allow UWM authors to publish unlimited open access (OA) articles in RSC’s high-impact portfolio of journals, including RSC hybrid journals, Gold OA journals, and RSC Advances. Transformative or …
Over the past three decades, textbook prices have increased at nearly three times the rate of inflation. This has resulted in a significant financial strain on students, forcing many to forego essential course materials or take on substantial debt to …
This virtual workshop on Thursday, October 26 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. will introduce faculty to open textbooks — a type of open educational resource (OER) — and the benefits these textbooks offer: affordability, pedagogical practice, student learning, and engagement. …
The UWM Libraries invite you to a workshop and discussion in which we will examine the emerging models for open access publishing, and their benefits and shortcomings from viewpoints of authors, editors, librarians, and publishers. REGISTRATION This year, UWM Libraries …
Celebrate Open Access Week by learning to improve the world’s largest open access reference source, Wikipedia. Join us for a Wikipedia Editing Workshop at the Golda Meir Library. At this free event, anyone can learn to edit and improve Wikipedia. …
The UWM Libraries have joined an agreement between Cambridge University Press and the Big Ten Academic Alliance which provides access to more than 400 Cambridge University Press journals. The arrangement supports long-term goals of making research articles immediately available online …
This week (March 6-10) in the Golda Meir Library’s Daniel M. Soref Learning Commons, we are celebrating Open Education Week by recognizing UWM classes with $0 textbook costs. Stop by to snap a selfie with Pounce and tell us about your textbook heroes! Use #textbookheroes on Instagram and Twitter …
The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning and the UWM Libraries now offer UWM instructors self-paced, online training for open textbooks, open educational resources, and affordable content in for their courses. This training explains the benefits of affordable course …
The UWM Libraries have entered into a Read and Publish Agreement with The Company of Biologists. Beginning in January 2023, UWM authors will be able to publish in all five Company of Biologists journals without paying any article processing charges …
