PAGE 2 LIBRARY AND TECHNOLOGY SERVICES - - - - - - 1 Strengthening Support for Research & Scholarship Libraries New Resources ▶ Expanded Open Access Support: With support from the Office of the Provost, the Libraries con tinued pilots supporting the Open Access publi cation of research articles via Read-and-Publish agreements with Wiley, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the American Chemical Society (ACS), and began new 2024 agreements with publishers Cambridge University Press, the Institute of Physics (IOP), and Springer. During AY23-24, these agreements enabled the Open Access publication of 94 journal articles and con ference proceedings. The Libraries will continue to assess these pilots in support of the university’s strategic initiatives around open and equitable access to the University’s research output. ▶ Launched a new “single search” capability in the ASA Library Catalog, which lets users search the catalog for e-journals, e-books, and many research databases, starting from one unified single search box. The search results allow users to further their research across multiple types of library resources – to find books, articles, videos, journal titles, research databases, special col lections, and other relevant resources available from Lehigh Libraries. The new results page also exposes relevant items available for interlibrary loan by our partner libraries. ▶ Updated and expanded The Preserve: Lehigh Library Digital Collections, an institutional repository and digital special collections site, to provide access to materials through a user-friendly, unified interface. Based on the open source Islandora 2 platform, the new Preserve offers improved navigation and search for library special collections and research, making open access Lehigh scholarship easier to use. ▶ The Libraries acquired new digital archival resources in support of emerging research and curricular areas including NPR’s Latinx Thought & Culture, Spanishand English language audio recordings of radio programs from 1979-1990; Rolling Stone magazine, a renowned American magazine that covers music, politics, and popular culture; and Native American Tribal Histories, 19th-century primary source docu ments on dozens of Native tribes from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The Libraries also created a circulating Board Game library for recreational use and game studies, and a graphic novel collection of classic and contemporary titles. ▶ Lehigh Libraries continued to co-develop open source systems to enrich Lehigh’s lending capa bilities and expand collaborative collections. Our Interlibrary loan system supports more than 30
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