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This newsletter covers updates, reminders, and support from LSU Libraries.

E-Textbooks

 

 
LSU Libraries’ e-textbook initiative provides students free access to required textbooks. You can explore e-textbooks available to adopt in your class here: lib.lsu.edu/ebooks. All titles allow for unlimited simultaneous users, meaning they never have to be checked out and won’t be unavailable when being used by others. They are also free of DRM—digital rights management—and therefore do not have technical roadblocks that could limit use or restrict printing and saving functions. Since launching in fall 2014, the initiative has had the potential to save students $1.44 million, helping to offset the cost of higher education while ensuring access to materials critical for student success. 

Institutional Repository

LSU Digital Commons is the university’s institutional repository. The online repository is a central display for university intellectual and scholarly output. It offers the LSU community a means to archive and make accessible to a global audience journal articles, conference proceedings, presentations, pre-prints, working papers, creative works, etc.

Faculty are encouraged to contribute their materials to LSU Digital Commons to increase visibility of their work and link it with other LSU research output. Studies have shown that open-access archive materials are cited more frequently and are more visible to search engines like Google Scholar. LSU Digital Commons provides a means to preserve scholarly output and to receive regular feedback about usage and downloads.

Digital Commons platform also supports

  • Electronic theses and dissertation access plus workflow and submission system with permission controls and embargo
  • An e-publishing platform for journals and books (the look of journals is customizable and includes full referee activities)
  • A Conference platform with submission, peer review, acceptance, permissions, and publication
  • Faculty research pages with readership reports
  • An e-portfolio platform for students and faculty

Visit http://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/ for more information

Contact:
Gina Costello
Associate Dean for Technology Initiatives
gcoste1@lsu.edu  / 578-3686

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