Over winter break, third-year WSU veterinary student Winnie Mefford finished a digital art portrait for a friend who lost her beloved dog, Lucy, a pit bull mix with a goofy and sweet personality. Her hope for her friend—and for Mefford’s fellow classmates who have similar portraits—is that the art offers another perspective of their pets […]

The oldest mistake on a “spreadsheet” dates back 5,000 years to a Sumerian tablet in Mesopotamia. It’s fitting that one of the first civilizations in the world carried the earliest example of human error. The tendency to err has plagued us from the very beginning. “We have been making mistakes since we learned to write […]

WSU Research Exchange, the university’s digital repository designed to preserve and circulate research and educational resources created by WSU researchers, has moved to a new platform, Esploro, that offers improved research information management to users. “We are excited about Esploro, the new platform for capturing and sharing WSU research. We believe it will highlight WSU […]

The WSU Libraries have partnered with Public Library of Science’s Community Action Publishing (CAP) model, allowing WSU authors to publish open access articles accepted by PLoS Medicine and PLoS Biology journals without paying article processing charges (APCs). More libraries and library consortia worldwide are contracting with publishers under such transformative agreements that shift pay structures […]

For Open Access Week Oct. 25-31, WSU Libraries’ Talea Anderson will present on confronting inequities in academic publishing from 11 a.m.-noon Monday, Oct. 25, via Zoom. Anderson will discuss challenges for researchers who wish to publish in a way that supports equity and inclusion around the world and will suggest strategies to overcome them. Registration is […]

WSU Libraries are seeking undergraduate and graduate students and student-workers to serve on the Library Student Advisory Board. The board exists as a direct channel for students to give input about the physical and digital experience of the WSU Libraries, including websites, online services, collections, in‑person services, and physical spaces. The board also helps determine best practices […]

To celebrate Constitution and Citizenship Day, the WSU Libraries will sponsor a round-robin public reading of the Constitution (with amendments) starting at noon on Friday, Sept. 17, in the Terrell Library Atrium. The reading takes about an hour; if there is interest, organizers will do a second reading. The event is free and open to […]

Effective Aug. 23, WSU Libraries’ Holland and Terrell Libraries will return to their pre-pandemic schedule of staying open 24 hours a day Sunday through Thursday. Office delivery of resources has resumed, and the popular locker pickup service will remain in place. The libraries will continue to offer mailing services to all patrons through the fall. In-person reference […]

WSU Libraries’ SciFinder subscription (http://www.systems.wsu.edu/Griffin/ejournals/splash/SciFindSch.html) has been upgraded to include SciFinder-n, a new product that offers substantial enhancements and new features for chemical research. SciFinder is the premier database for chemistry literature, chemical structures, and patents. To access full-text articles from a SciFinder article record, make sure you are logged into Search It and click […]

When WSU Libraries open July 12, emergency temporary access to their print holdings contained within the HathiTrust Digital Library will end. HathiTrust is a nonprofit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving more than 17 million digitized items. WSU Libraries gained access to the HathiTrust collections in April 2020 following closures due to the COVID-19 […]