100,000 Downloads for the CSU e-Press

It is time to celebrate!  The publications in the CSU ePress, CSU's institutional repository, have been downloaded more than 100,000 times since the CSU ePress first opened its doors in 2016.

The CSU ePress contains the intellectual and academic work of CSU's faculty and students.  Examples include theses and dissertations, journal articles, scholarly presentations, and conference proceedings.  There are also three open access journals highlighted in the CSU ePress:  Servant Leadership:  Theory and Practice, the Muscogiana, and Perspectives in Learning.  Student creative works are also located in the CSU ePress.  For example, the Arden (CSU's literary magazine) and Momentum are both stored in the CSU ePress.

The CSU ePress is also the home of the reports, maps, and digital humanity projects created by the Columbus Community Geography Center.  The Columbus Community Geography Center (CCGC) is a community-driven collaboration that uses geographical thinking to research, map, analyze, and provide fresh and insightful perspectives on issues in the city and region.

There are also episodes of the CSU TV on the CSU ePress, along with two open access textbooks written by CSU's Dr. Jennifer Brown.

In the future, the administrators of the CSU ePress plan to include media projects and data repositories, along with more theses, dissertations and student publications.

For more information about the CSU ePress, please contact Jackie Radebaugh at 706-507-8693.

Serving the Community with the CSU ePress

ePress to Increase Research and Scholarship at CSU

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.

Associate Professor, Dr. Patrick Jackson to Present Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes Lecture

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English Department Annual Lecture

Thursday, February 26, 2015

12:30-1:30 p.m.

1st Floor Forum Area

Schwob Memorial Library (Main Campus Library)

“Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences” ― Sylvia Plath

Today, February 26, 2015, the English Department will host their annual lecture series between 12:30-1:30 pm, on the first floor of the Simon Schwob Memorial Library. Associate Professor, of the English Department, Dr. Patrick Jackson will present "Public Myths, Private Griefs: Mourning Sylvia Plath in Ted Hughes's Crow Poems."

Jackson will discuss and review both poets, Sylvia Plath and Hughes, as well as a light dialogue after his lecture. All patrons of the library and CSU students are invited to attend.

This lecture is amongst a list of other professional activities from the Associate Professor. Jackson has many published essays such as “The Liberties of Blank Verse” and

“The Sublimity of Wilfred Owen’s Despair.” 

For more information, please contact the English Department located in Woodard Hall. 

Open Access Week: CSU ePress

Columbus State University ePress 

To celebrate Open Access Week, CSU Libraries will highlight our own Open Access resource, CSU ePress.

The CSU ePress is a digital archive of the academic output of CSU that highlights the writing and work of faculty members and students. Right now, the focus is collecting the published works of our faculty members and uploading them to the CSU ePress so that they are easily accessible by students and faculty alike. Some of the benefits to having the published work of CSU faculty members available through the CSU ePress include:

•        Students’ ability to access the works of their professors for research and reading

•        Faculty member awareness of and access to the work of their cohorts

•        The academic work of our faculty members being highlighted

See for yourself! Here is a link to the main page of the CSU ePress:

http://ldsp01.columbusstate.edu:8080/xmlui

 

For more information, feel free to contact Jackie Radebaugh through her campus email, radebaugh_jacqueline@columbusstate.edu.

You can also contact her graduate assistant at

clay_sarah@columbusstate.edu.

Open Access Week, October 20th - 26th

This week highlights the benefits of Open Access as the new standard of publication in scholarship and research.

Open Access is a publishing model that allows for literature to be accessed freely and without restrictions. Many journals and institutional repositories, like the CSU ePress, have adopted an Open Access policy in order to make research freely available to the public. 

Benefits to Open Access:

• Improves the visibility of scholarship

• Increases dissemination of research

• Increases rates of citations

What does this mean for you?

• You have free access to all of the works in Open Access sources.

• You can read, download, distribute, copy, print, and cite the research posted in Open Access journals and institutional repositories.

• By supporting Open access journals and institutional repositories you promote Open Access.

For more information, please see http://columbusstate.libguides.com/content.php?pid=311435&sid=2580327. 

CSU ePress

The CSU libraries would like to tell you about an exciting opportunity for faculty and students called the CSU ePress. The CSU ePress is a digital archive of the academic output of CSU that highlights the writing and work of faculty members and students. Right now, the focus is collecting the published works of our faculty members and uploading them to the CSU ePress so that they are easily accessible by students and faculty alike. Some of the benefits to having the published work of CSU faculty members available through the CSU ePress include:

•        Students’ ability to easily access the works of their professors for research and reading

•        Faculty member awareness of and access to the work of their cohorts

•        The academic work of our faculty members being highlighted

See for yourself! Here is a link to the main page of the CSU ePress:

http://ldsp01.columbusstate.edu:8080/xmlui

 

For more information, feel free to contact Jackie Radebaugh through her campus email, radebaugh_jacqueline@columbusstate.edu.

You can also contact her graduate assistant at

clay_sarah@columbusstate.edu.

Open Access Week 2013

It’s that time of year again in the Library, for next week is Open Access Week!  Open Access, as many of you may know, is the push scholarly work to be open and available to everyone, free of charge.  Columbus State University Libraries has taken the initiative to incorporate more elements of open access in our electronic resources for student and faculty research.  The focal point of open access at CSU is the CSU ePress, which is the CSU’s non-commercial, open access institutional repository that is a part of the GALILEO Knowledge Repository (GKR).   The CSU ePress contains several faculty publications, and an extensive bibliography of CSU faculty research, in addition to electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), creative works, and academic research pieces generated by CSU students.

For both students and faculty, access to quality research is essential to being successful in their academic and career endeavors.  Thus, ask a librarian today about how you can learn more about Open Access!

For more information, visit:

The CSU ePress:

http://ldsp01.columbusstate.edu:8080/xmlui

The Scholarly Communication Subject Guide:

http://columbusstate.libguides.com/epress

The GALILEO Knowledge Repository (GKR):

 http://www.gaknowledge.org.

Looking for a Different Kind of Research Tool?

Check out CSU ePress, CSU’s year-old digital repository that holds the academic output of the university.  You might be asking “What’s in it for me?” and we can honestly say that there’s much that the CSU ePress has to offer for CSU students and faculty.

Using the CSU ePress, one can access electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) generated by members of CSU over the years. The repository also holds an extensive list of faculty bibliographic references, and a number of faculty publications, in addition to some student publications. 

The CSU ePress is a valuable research tool for those who care to have access to academic materials generated by CSU students and faculty, as well as citation information about faculty publications. For those who care to contribute their work to the repository, it’s an easy way to not only archive one’s work, but also to have one’s work openly disseminated.

All material on CSU ePress is open access, meaning that the material is available for everyone’s use, free of charge.

Check out the repository:  http://tinyurl.com/Csu-epress

Guest Blogger:  Charlotte Davis

If you need additional assistance, please contact Information Services, 706.507.8671 or use our Connect with a Librarian services.

Introducing the CSU ePress

CSU ePress Staff, L-R: Jackie Radebaugh, Electronic Resources and Systems Librarian, Charlotte Davis, and Anna Hale

The CSU ePress is our university's institutional repository (IR). By institutional repository, we mean a database that holds scholarly information specific to CSU, both written by, and utilized by members of our own institution for the benefit of the university as a whole. The digital repository will contain the electronic dissertations and theses (ETDs) of CSU students and faculty to begin with, but will eventually contain more scholarly information for the use of all members of the university as time progresses.

The CSU ePress will serve as a means by which students and faculty may access scholarly research generated by members of CSU, and the database will furthermore create opportunities for scholarly material to be composed of and added to the repository for the benefit of the CSU community.

The CSU ePress Institutional Repositories: Copyright Information for Authors brochure is available for download.