Category: General Collections News
New Access to Over 17 Million Digital Items Through HathiTrust
Posted January 26, 2021
The JMU community now has access to the HathiTrust Digital Library with over 17 million digitized books, journals, and other publications. What is HathiTrust? Founded in 2008, HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative that shares and preserves millions of titles digitized […]
JMU Signs a New One-year Agreement With Elsevier
Posted January 19, 2021
JMU recently completed contract negotiations with Elsevier, one of the world’s largest and most profitable academic publishers. As part of a coalition of public doctoral institutions in Virginia (including the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, Virginia Commonwealth University, George Mason […]
What’s the “Big Deal”? Update on Contract Negotiations with Elsevier
Posted November 17, 2020
As Libraries Dean Bethany Nowviskie shared with the Faculty Senate earlier this year, JMU is in negotiations with Elsevier, one of the world’s largest and most profitable academic publishers. A revision to our Elsevier contract is on a faster-than-expected timeline due […]
Sustainable Scholarship Virtual Forum in Advance of Elsevier Negotiations
Posted September 21, 2020
Representatives from the James Madison University, University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, Virginia Commonwealth University, George Mason University, Old Dominion University, and William and Mary will soon be in contract negotiations with Elsevier, the largest science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) […]
Our New “Library Search” Tool (Updated July 15)
Posted July 15, 2020
We are pleased to announce a new Library Search tool as part of a new integrated library system (ILS) system debuting in early July. Library Search brings together the JMU Libraries’ catalog and many of our databases and journals, so […]
Introducing the New “Library Search”
Posted July 10, 2020
On July 10, we released Library Search, a new tool that allows you to search our vast collection of print and electronic resources using a single easy-to-use interface. You can find it at search.lib.jmu.edu or near the top of our website’s home […]
Our “Sustainable Scholarship” response to rising journal costs
Posted January 30, 2020
Bethany Nowviskie, Dean of Libraries, visited the JMU Faculty Senate on January 30, 2020, to discuss the economic, scholarly, and social impact of commercial journal costs and to begin a discussion on sustainable scholarship at JMU. What’s the Big Deal? Five […]
Virginia Research Library Deans and Directors Endorse the MIT Framework for Publisher Contracts
Posted October 23, 2019
Virginia’s research libraries enthusiastically endorse the MIT Framework for Publisher Contracts. As we work together in Virginia to forge a more sustainable, equitable approach to journal deals, the Framework is a powerful statement around which research libraries in the US […]