As part of this three-year pilot, authors who have published with many Elsevier journals and who were affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania at the time of publication will retroactively have their articles made open access.
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Meet Our Spring 2022 Library Interns!
Just in time for National Library Week, we sat down with our interns to learn about their backgrounds, their experiences working at the information desk in Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, and what they think every Penn student should know about using the Penn Libraries.
Shedding Light on History Using Linked Data: An Interview with L.P. Coladangelo, LEADING Fellow
Last month, we sat down with Coladangelo to learn about his work with SIMS, what it taught him about communicating across disciplines, and how he hopes his work will help researchers enrich their understanding of the past.
New Year, New You: Five Things You Didn’t Know the Penn Libraries Could Help You Do in 2022
This semester, spend some time exploring what your library has to offer beyond books.
Penn Libraries Unveils First Read and Publish Agreement with Cambridge University Press
The Penn Libraries' first transformative agreement seeks to "expand open access publishing while centering the values of sustainability and equity in scholarly publishing.”
How Health Sciences Librarians Are Building Global Partnerships, from Philadelphia to Gaborone
For the last 13 years, librarians at Penn and the University of Botswana have worked together to build the capacity of University of Botswana librarians to serve medical students and clinicians.
How Penn's Librarians are Using Linked Data to Make the Web Better
“Linked data is the language of the web,” says Beth Camden, Director of Information Processing. “It’s building the infrastructure that makes the web better.”
Featured Books: Native American Heritage Month
A selection of novels, memoirs, histories, and poetry collections chosen by our librarians for Native American Heritage Month.
The Penn Libraries Acquires the Personal Papers of Historian and Activist Elizabeth Fee
Elizabeth Fee, who died in 2018, is probably most known for her work documenting and analyzing the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
The Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image Celebrates 25 Years
Thanks to a generous gift from Lawrence J. Schoenberg, grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and private donations, SCETI has spent the past 25 years digitizing collections and making them available online.
