Colleagues,
Please consult this link to review the list of books offered to English faculty
http://library.shu.edu/duplicate-english-titles

You have until August 5th to claim them. After that they will be discarded. There are a total of 2,200 books in all (including English) so if you would like to see lists of other subject areas, please let me know.

Marta

Data for Research is a free service for researchers wishing to analyze content on JSTOR through a variety of lenses and perspectives. DfR enables researchers to find useful patterns, associations and unforeseen relationships in the body of research available in the journal and pamphlet archives on JSTOR. To this end we provide data sets of documents to researchers: OCR, metadata, Key Terms, N-grams and reference text. [for more information...]

How to get larger data sets:

If you require more than 1,000 documents or a type of data not available through the interactive portion of the site, please contact JSTOR at: support@ithaka.org.

Contact Marta Deyrup or Tony Lee about how you can make your work accessible on the Web. We can advise on copyright issues as well as provide technical help.

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Applicable for every discipline….

……Last week we covered various FAQs concerning the type of legal publication (responses to articles, book reviews, and online law reviews). This week the questions will focus on interacting within one’s field. The first question, which dovetails nicely with the questions from last week, is how to increase the chances that one’s scholarship, especially pretenure (though not limited to that), will actually be read in the field. I’m very interested in leveraging the PrawfsBlawg community on this. To get us started, here are a few best practices that come to mind … [read more at Prawfs Blawg….]

Bepress, which hosts the University Libraries’ institutional repository and SHU faculty personal webpages  [Selected Works],  has substantially upgraded its platform. The overall effect is much more professional and the platform now allows you to upload thumbnail images of your publications and provides information about copyright restrictions before you upload pre-prints or full text versions of your articles. See the example below.  If you have questions or would like help in setting up an account contact Marta Deyrup [marta.deyrup@shu.edu] or Anthony Lee [anthony.lee@shu.edu]

The Review’s Writers at Work interview series offers authors a rare opportunity to discuss their life and art at length; they have responded with some of the most revealing self-portraits in literature. Among the interviewees are William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov, Joan Didion, Seamus Heaney, Ian McEwan, and Lorrie Moore. In the words of one critic, it is “one of the single most persistent acts of cultural conservation in the history of the world.”

Read the interviews at the Paris Review online

This is  the only known surviving recording of Virginia Woolf, part of a BBC radio broadcast from 1937. The talk is titled “Craftsmanship.”  LISTEN….