March 2021

Welcome a new issue! This month, we have news about the Paul Robeson Library Undergraduate Research Award, a new Open Access publishing agreement between the Big Ten Academic Alliance and the Public Library of Science, plenty of events including the 35th annual Bishop Lecture, and much more. Read on to learn What's Happening!

In this issue:

Robeson Library Launches Undergraduate Research Award
Open Access Publishing Pilot for PLOS Biology and PLOS Medicine
New and Improved Interlibrary Loan Forms
What's Trending on Social Media
This Month's Events

Robeson Library Launches Undergraduate Research Award

The Paul Robeson Library Undergraduate Research Award was designed to recognize outstanding undergraduate research projects that make use of library resources, collections, and services.

We invite current Rutgers University–Camden students working towards an undergraduate degree in any school to apply. Students may submit any paper or other project completed for a semester-long, credit-bearing course between spring 2020 and spring 2021. Individual or group entries will be accepted. One winner will receive a $500 award and two winners will receive $250 awards.

The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) and the Public Library of Science (PLOS) have entered into an agreement for BTAA members, including Rutgers University, to participate in PLOS' Community Action Publishing (CAP) program. CAP is PLOS' effort to sustain highly selective journal publishing without Article Processing Charges (APCs) for authors. The agreement ensures time to test and evaluate this new community-based model and allows BTAA researchers to publish in PLOS Biology and PLOS Medicine without incurring fees. The BTAA and PLOS will also collaborate on future data, metrics, and tools for institutions to evaluate Open Access publishing agreements.

The publishing pilot covers uncapped, no-fee publishing for authors for three years in two journals, PLOS Biology and PLOS Medicine. All published articles are immediately Open Access and are available globally to read at no charge. There is no change to workflow for authors or librarians and it automatically extends to all authors from participating campuses who submit to either PLOS Biology or PLOS Medicine.

Our new and improved interlibrary loan (ILL) and Article Delivery request forms make it easier than ever to request physical materials from our large network of partner libraries.

Despite their new look, your account information and request history will remain unchanged.

You can use our ILL services to request books, articles, book chapters, microforms, conference proceedings, or other materials that aren't available at Rutgers, or to request a digital scan of an article or book chapter from one of our collections.

What's Trending

The latest from the Libraries on social media.

On Rutgers Giving Day, March 24, join in a day that is all about #RCommunity. We need your help to show how the Libraries and our resources, services, and personnel make the world a better place. Please take a moment to share your thoughts with us!

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March's Events

Join us for online workshops, lectures, and activities throughout the month.

Reading from Home: Book History in Pandemic Times
March 25, 5:00 p.m.

Rutgers Distinguished Professor Leah Price will deliver the 35th annual Louis Faugères Bishop III Lecture "Reading from Home: Book History in Pandemic Times," on Thursday, March 25 at 5:00 p.m.

Leah Price is the Henry Rutgers Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University and the founding director of the Initiative for the Book. Her books include What We Talk About When We Talk About Books (2019; Christian Gauss Prize), How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain (2012; Patten Prize, Channing Prize), and The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel (2000). She edited Further Reading (with Matthew Rubery, 2020), Unpacking My Library, and (with Pam Thurschwell) Literary Secretaries/Secretarial Culture. She writes for the New York Times Book Review, London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Public Books, and New York Review of Books, and is a section editor for Public Books.