The UWM Open Textbook and OEAR Project is pleased to recognize Psychology 101 for reaching the $2,000,000 open textbook savings milestone. Psychology 101 faculty have been teaching with OpenStax Psychology since 2016, impacting 12,000 students over 26 semesters. OpenStax Psychology …
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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 …
Now in its fourth year, the UWM Open Textbook and Open Educational Resource Adoption Project—a partnership between the UWM Libraries and Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning—continues to expand affordable course material options across campus. To date, the project …
UWM’s Open Textbook and OER Project, led by the UWM Libraries and the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, has, to date, resulted in $1.3 million in student savings and bringing textbook access to 11,500 students. This week, March 4-8, is International …
During open access week, the UWM Libraries are highlighting ways we can remove barriers to information. Open access provides an opportunity to eliminate obstacles to learning and student success, such as prohibitive textbook costs. Communication 103 faculty took the open …
UWM Libraries are celebrating 2018 International Open Access Week, October 22-28. This year’s theme is “designing equitable foundations for open knowledge,” underscoring the value of making scholarship more open and inclusive. Open Access refers to the free, immediate, online availability of …
Since 2012, the Libraries have provided to UWM authors funding that covers the costs associated with publication of their scholarship in open access journals. Open access publication ensures that the research of our faculty is available to the widest possible …
“Open in order to…” — the theme of International Open Access Week 2017 — is a call to reflect on the reasons scholars publish their research in Open Access journals and archive copies of their manuscripts in repositories like the UWM Digital Commons. …
A collaboration between the UWM Libraries, science and engineering faculty, and Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Publishing from 2013 to 2016 resulted in the open access publication of 62 scholarly articles by UWM authors. Recognizing that researchers are often asked …
