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For the fall 2024 semester the Cheng Library is pleased to announce the acquisition of some important new electronic resources as well as a new agreement with the publisher SpringerNature that will make open access publishing easier for faculty.
The JSTOR Life Sciences Collection is the 11th and newest collection we’ve added on the JSTOR platform. It includes 206 major journals in the life sciences, focusing on such subject areas as botany, conservation, ecology, general and health sciences, plant sciences, and zoology. Among the titles included are BMJ: British Medical Journal, Plant Systematics and Evolution, The American Naturalist, Science, The American Journal of Nursing, Journal of Ecology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, and many more. A complete title list is available for download. As with the other JSTOR collections, the Life Sciences Collection focuses on the complete backfile for each title up through the recent past. In most cases the journals employ a “moving wall” and add new content at intervals from one to five years following initial publication.
Faculty who use streaming video content in their classes will welcome the Cheng Library’s subscription to the Kanopy BASE collection. The collection includes over 9,500 videos on a wide variety of subjects, including art and artists, anthropology, K-12 lessons and education, Asian and African studies, history, health, applied science, business skills, film studies, biology and environmental sciences, literature, economics, gender studies, and many other subjects. While primarily consisting of documentaries, the collection also includes a large number of feature films and television programming. Among the distributors are Kino Lorber, PBS, First Run Features, Green Planet Films, IFC Films, New Day Films, Shout Studies, and many others. A complete title list is available for download. The films available in Kanopy BASE can be used for any type of course and can be screened in the classroom or made available to students through direct links.
Under a new agreement negotiated by the library consortial agent Lyrasis, over 2,000 scholarly journals published by SpringerNature, one of the world’s largest academic publishers, now support faculty publishing on an open access basis without requiring an article processing charge. WPUNJ faculty who publish an article in one of the eligible journals can now elect to make their article freely available to a worldwide readership without having to provide an article processing charge to enable open access. This agreement follows a similar one already in place for journals published by Cambridge University Press.
The Cheng Library invites users to take advantage of these resources. Please contact Richard Kearney, Electronic Resources Librarian (kearneyr@wpunj.edu, 973-720-2165) if you have any questions or need additional information.
