The UWM Libraries are retiring their institutional repository, UWM Digital Commons, and moving its content to MINDS@UW (Multidisciplinary Institutional Network for Data and Scholarship), a Universities of Wisconsin community-hosted repository.
MINDS@UW Milwaukee will support open access to research and scholarship by UWM authors and will be the site for all of UWM’s electronic theses and dissertations. The migration to the new platform will be completed before the end of the calendar year.
Oct. 21-27 is International Open Access Week, and this year’s theme is “Community over Commercialization.” In addition to joining a community-powered institutional repository, UWM Libraries continue to support the research, teaching and learning communities with “read and publish agreements” with academic and nonprofit publishers that allow UWM authors to publish articles on open access without article processing charges in select journals, and UWM’s open educational resources initiative, which supports our students by lowering textbook costs.
Contact the UWM Libraries Scholarly Communication Team to learn more about open access.
