Posted December 15, 2020

Interlibrary Loan (ILL) services at JMU and other universities are limited during winter break. If you plan to request books or articles before January, please visit our ILL Winter Break Hours page for more information.

Posted December 14, 2020

To support student health and safety, our Course Reserves service will be limited to online resources only for the Spring 2021 semester. For Students – How to find Course Reserves: Visit this Course Reserves page and search for items on […]

Posted December 11, 2020

JMU’s Interlibrary Loan (ILL) is about to get even faster, and Mikki Butcher (’20) is the person you can thank. You may be familiar with Interlibrary Loan – when you need a book, article, or another resource that’s not part […]

Posted December 9, 2020

JMU faculty in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics (or those with expertise in these disciplines) are invited to write a review of an online textbook or other open educational resource (OER) to receive a $249 honorarium from VIVA, Virginia’s […]

Posted December 4, 2020

Before Shenandoah National Park was founded, these lands were home for generations of Virginians. Some families lived on the same land for 250 years.  In the 1930s, over 2,000 people in eight counties in Virginia were removed from the land […]

Posted November 20, 2020

With this week’s feature, we’re shining the spotlight on Yasmeen Shorish, who is working hard to protect our privacy, promote open access to information, and help us consider publishing rights. Through dual roles, Yasmeen helps to promote equity and inclusion […]

Posted November 17, 2020

Access and support for RefWorks will end on October 1, 2020. You will be able to export your RefWorks citations until November 30, 2020.  Try Zotero: JMU Libraries recommends Zotero as an alternative to RefWorks, and we will offer support […]

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 […]

Posted November 17, 2020

The JMU Libraries building hours during JMU’s Thanksgiving holiday will be: Day JMU Libraries Hours Friday, November 20 7:30am to 5:00pm Saturday, November 21 Closed Sunday, November 22 Closed Monday, November 23 1:00pm to 5:00pm Tuesday, November 24 1:00pm to […]

Posted November 13, 2020

In March of this year, JMU faculty were faced with an unimaginable task. They needed to move all their courses online in a week and a half so that students could leave campus in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Faculty […]