Author: Mandy Shannon

Panel discussion: Honoring Contributions, Recognizing Complexities

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The question of whether to separate an artist’s contributions from the artist’s personal action is nothing new. Caravaggio was an influential Baroque painter whose techniques have been said to change Western art, but he was violent and a murderer. Wagner was a composer who was known for expanding and bringing innovation to opera but was a noted anti-Semite and racist. Picasso, Hitchcock, Rowling…the list goes on. Can – and should – the artist be separated from the art? This panel discussion will provide a context for recognizing and honoring artists’ achievements while grappling with the complexities of their personal actions.

Join us on January 27th at noon in Room 441 Dunbar Library or on Webex as panelists Dr. Nicole Carter, Director of the Wright State Women’s Center, Affiliate Faculty in WGS &AFS, and Co-Coordinator of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Dr. Sharon Lynette Jones, Professor of English; and Dr. Donovan Miyasaki, Associate Professor of Philosophy address this question. Panelists will each address the question, followed by an opportunity for audience members to ask questions for discussion.

For additional information, please email Mandy Shannon at [email protected]. Registration is encouraged and available online.

New Research Toolkit workshops available!

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The University Libraries’ Research Toolkit is a series of workshops designed to address the most common challenges students face in doing college-level research.   We are pleased to share that we have updated two of our most popular workshops: 

e are pleased to share that we have updated two of our most popular workshops: Stop Searching and Start Finding, which introduces students the basic skills needed to effectively search databases for relevant materials, has been updated and now includes specific guidance on determining the scope of a project or assignment in order to understand information need. Media literacy has been our most-requested new topic. We are happy to introduce Evaluating Information: Media Sources, which replaces the previous evaluation workshop. This updated approach to evaluation addresses the fundamentals of media literacy and introduces students to a simple approach to evaluate new information. Both of these updated workshops are available as Qualtrics Learning Modules. Faculty interested in integrating a workshop into course material can follow these instructions for adding the Qualtrics module to Pilot. Faculty who assign one of these workshops for credit can email the Library Research Toolkit team for class results. We continue to offer several other Research Toolkit workshops as Pilot modules, including Simple Steps to Reading Scholarly articles Integrating Your Sources Citing Your Sources The .zip files for these and an instructions for uploading the modules to Pilot can be found on the Research Toolkit: For instructor use guide. All the Research Toolkit videos are also available to view anytime on the Libraries’ How-To page.

Stop Searching and Start Finding, which introduces students to the basic skills needed to effectively search databases for relevant materials, has been updated and now includes specific guidance on determining the scope of a project or assignment in order to understand information need.  
 

Evaluating Information: Media Sources, which replaces the previous evaluation workshop. This updated approach to evaluation addresses the fundamentals of media literacy and introduces students to a simple approach to evaluate new information.

Both of these updated workshops are available as Qualtrics Learning Modules. Faculty interested in integrating a workshop into course material can follow these instructions for adding the Qualtrics module to Pilot. Faculty who assign one of these workshops for credit can email the Library Research Toolkit team for class results. 

We continue to offer several other Research Toolkit workshops as Pilot modules, including 

The .zip files for these and an instructions for uploading the modules to Pilot can be found on the Research Toolkit: For instructor use guide. 

All the Research Toolkit videos are also available to view anytime on the Libraries’ How-To page. 

New Cambridge University Press “Read & Publish” OhioLINK Arrangement has begun for Wright State University authors

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OhioLINK has negotiated a new “Read & Publish” deal with Cambridge University Press. The deal, which went into effect on January 1, 2022 and which lasts through December 31, 2024, will provide important access for the Wright State community.  

What are the main effects of this deal? 

There are two main components of the agreement: 

Read As a result of this deal, Wright State University faculty, students, and staff now have access to current articles published in all 400+ Cambridge University Press journals. (If you are looking for access to a specific journal consider using our eJournal search to see the various access options and dates of coverage.) 
 

Publish All Wright State authors are now eligible to publish accepted manuscripts with open access at no cost in Cambridge journals. Open access makes the content available for anyone to access with no subscription or fee to read. In order to publish open access at no cost in a Cambridge journal, the corresponding author of the article must be affiliated with an OhioLINK institution, including Wright State University.  

Complete information about this deal, including the steps to take advantage of the open access publishing under this OhioLINK agreement is available on the OhioLINK information for authors page. 

Contact your subject librarian with any questions.