There are many amenities and services within the Columbus
State Libraries that help not only CSU students and faculty members but
scholars everywhere. The CSU ePress, an Open
Access digital archive, is an online service that preserves and collects
various materials such as dissertations and theses, conference presentations, journal
articles, student publications and poems.
Many scholars and students are presumed to use the CSU ePress
because all works uploaded in the digital archive are accessible through Google Scholar
and Google. Yet, one of the most significant and snubbed feature of the ePress
is that all information provided is largely free.
This feature, and benefit, allows students to better conduct
their research without the worry and burden of coming out of pocket. With the Open Access feature, scholars and
students do not have to worry about certain copyright and licensing restrictions, as
many scholars may have dealt with in the past.
The CSU ePress also offers search filter options and
citations to better position patrons and scholars routing and conducting their
research online. Many patrons of the Schwob Memorial Library are more than
likely to conduct their research physically in a library; however, with the CSU
ePress, finding a professor’s graduate dissertation or last winter’s issues of The Arden can be conducted from a home
kitchen or in a dorm room.
The arrangement of resources available and benefit of the
CSU ePress is far too accommodating for scholars and CSU students to not use. With
the expansion of the CSU ePress, more and more works from faculty and staff members
and students are becoming accessible; the CSU ePress helps students and scholars to
conduct their research with ease, consistently.
The growing archive includes many student creative works and
professional works from CSU faculty and staff that have and are presumed to
improve visibility of scholarship and the rate of citations. Be sure to visit
the CSU ePress and the
CSU Libraries.