Category: General Collections News
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 […]