Happy Fair Use Week, Bobcats! This week libraries are celebrating that delicious slice of the U.S. Copyright Act that helps us navigate our freedom of expression while not infringing on the rights of authors. Fair Use is one of your rights but can be a little tricky to understand, so let’s break it down. What …
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Texas State students and faculty across a variety of academic areas are benefitting from two key resources purchased in 2022 through University Libraries’ Online Resource Grant funding. Online Resource Grants support the purchase of one-time online resources such as primary source databases, journal backfile collections, e-book collections, and audio or streaming media collections. These resources …
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Due to rising costs, Texas State’s University Libraries (UL) is continuously evaluating its subscriptions and seeking to be efficient with its available funding. As a result, UL is canceling Elsevier’s Scopus database subscription effective December 31, 2022. Scopus is a comprehensive citation database that has significant content overlap with Clarivate’s Web of Science, which …
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Texas State’s University Libraries has acquired a package of research tools from Sage Research Methods (SRM) which provides access to a wealth of materials to help students and faculty learn various research methods. The tools include little green and blue books, a project planner, data sets, reference materials, tutorials, case study videos, expert interviews, and …
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You’ve gotten your assignment and you are ready to start your research. Or, you need someone to help you figure out where to look for resources to help you work on an assignment or study for an exam. What do you do? Well, you go to the library, of course. But in today’s world, you …
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For over a year, Texas State University has been an active participant in the Texas Library Coalition for United Action (Texas Coalition), a group of 43 academic institutions in Texas seeking to find sustainable solutions to the rising costs of subscriptions to academic journals and to improve relationships between academic institutions and publishers. We are …
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Across the country, research libraries are faced with difficult decisions that will impact their campuses’ access to scholarly research articles found in subscription databases and journals. While many academic library budgets have remained stagnant, publishers have consistently raised their subscription fees 5 to 7 percent each year and larger publishers have priced their subscriptions beyond what is sustainable for universities to maintain. Even large research universities like UC Berkeley and others have had to walk away from subscription access to research …
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