Furman authors who wish to publish Open Access now have more options thanks to transformative agreements. Open Access (OA) scholarship is free, online, and has fewer rights restrictions. However, OA comes at a cost. In most cases, authors pay thousands of dollars to publishers so that their scholarship can be OA. Transformative agreements shift this . . .Continue reading Publish Open Access with Transformative Agreements
Furman University Math and Computer junior Hayes Brown ’26 has made the most of the digital access to the New York Times provided by the Furman Libraries. One day, while reading the Times, Hayes came across an article in the Style section titled “What’s Left on Your Summer Bucket List? Tell Us.” The piece asked . . .Continue reading Hayes Brown: Furman Junior Featured in The New York Times, Thanks to Library Access
The Libraries recently completed a large-scale project to ensure unique library materials remain available thanks to a partnership with library consortium EAST. The Eastern Academic Scholars’ Trust (EAST) is a shared print initiative involving 60+ academic and research libraries in 11 states from Maine to Florida. EAST is focused on retaining unique, scarcely held, and . . .Continue reading Ensuring Access to Unique Library Materials
Do you love to read YA books? The Furman Libraries now offers a Young Adult (YA) Books Collection in the Duke Library. For the first time ever, the YA books are grouped into a single browsing collection, allowing users to easily explore popular titles and series. The idea for the collection came from Riley Draper . . .Continue reading Explore Our YA Books Collection!
The Furman Libraries provide Furman students, faculty and staff with access to The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. You will find directions to create individual accounts at this url: https://libguides.furman.edu/access-news. Don’t get stuck behind the paywalls. Create your accounts today! Please keep in mind that these accounts allow for . . .Continue reading Stay On Top of the News!
The Furman University Libraries are thrilled to announce the first publication of an article under a new open access agreement with Wiley. Professor of Chemistry, Greg Springsteen, became the first Furman professor to publish under the new agreement. The article, A Plausible Prebiotic One-Pot Synthesis of Orotate and Pyruvate Suggestive of Common Protometabolic Pathways, was . . .Continue reading Free Open Access Publishing in Wiley
Due to circumstances beyond our control, requesting materials through PASCAL Delivers will be temporarily unavailable beginning Friday, September 24, 2021 at 5pm and lasting into next week. We apologize for the inconvenience. If there are any books or other materials that you need, that we don’t own, we are still able to request those through . . .Continue reading PASCAL Delivers service temporarily unavailable
We’ve been hearing from a lot of people on campus that they are having issues accessing ebooks. These problems can be caused by a variety of factors, but there is one simple step you should take to see if you can fix your ebook access problem: deleting your browser cache. Think of deleting your browser . . .Continue reading Ebook Problem Fix!
All students at Furman have direct access to librarians in Outreach Services, including: A librarian paired with their First Year Writing class A personal librarian assigned as soon as a student declares a major Ability to make individual appointments for research consultations Two branch librarians residing in the Maxwell Music Library and Sanders Science Library . . .Continue reading Know Your Librarian
The Furman Libraries want to stay in touch with you and support your teaching and learning in the online environment that will be commencing soon. We have created a Guide that lists all the ways* you can get in touch with librarians and staff who can connect you with our resources and suggest ways of . . .Continue reading Virtual Ways to Use the Library Resources–Human and Electronic
