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In this issue:
- Digital Object Identifiers minting service to be launched Spring 2025
- Open Scholarship Forum
- Salon Series: What Does it Mean to Respect Nonhuman Animals?
- Halloween at Fogler!
- Special Collections News: Homecoming; UMaine Sports Hall of Fame exhibit
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Featured resource: Zoological Record
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Digital Object Identifiers minting service to be launched Spring 2025
The Open Scholarship unit of Fogler Library will offer the service for minting Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for UMaine System publications, research, and shared objects starting in Spring 2025. A Digital Object Identifier is a unique and persistent identifier and URL for a publication/object. It serves as an enduring path to the object’s location online despite changes to hosting over time. DOIs offer many benefits to your work, providing permanent and stable access to your material. This greatly enhances discoverability, making it easy to accurately cite your work. That, in turns, improves tracking and metrics, allowing automated systems to easily track citations of your work. For more information about DOIs, consider attending the Open Scholarship Meet-Up this Wednesday at 3 p.m. in the Fogler Library Salon, or email Casey Koons, Open Scholarship Librarian.
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Open Scholarship Forum
Join us for a catered event in the Library Salon on Wednesday, Oct. 23 at 3 p.m. to meet UMaine Libraries’ Open Scholarship Librarian, Casey Koons, and engage in a conversation about the challenges of publishing open scholarship. This is an opportunity to share experiences, ask questions, and explore solutions for making research more openly accessible. Connect with fellow faculty in a relaxed setting and enjoy refreshments as we discuss these important issues.
Please click on this link for more information, to complete a poll and to RSVP for the event.
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Salon Series: What Does it Mean to Respect Nonhuman Animals?
The third event in Fogler Library’s exciting Salon Series, “What Does it Mean to Respect Nonhuman Animals,” takes place on Tuesday, Oct. 29 from 6—7:30 p.m. This event is available both in person at The Salon at Fogler Library, and via Zoom.
Whether they are treated as consumables, research subjects, companions, or family, human civilization relies heavily on the lives of other animals. Given these disparate — and not necessarily mutually exclusive — ways of interacting with nonhuman animals, what does it mean to respect them? Which ideas and practices serve this end? Which cultures and traditions provide relevant insights? How might we treat animals as nonhuman persons?
Please click here to view the event flyer.
Don’t forget …
There is still time to catch the second event in the Salon Series, “Gender and Women in Higher Education in Comparative Perspective,” which takes place today, Wednesday, Oct. 23 from 6–7:30 p.m. The flyer can be viewed here.
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Halloween at Fogler!
Fogler Library is hosting two events on Wednesday, October 30 to celebrate the spooky season.
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At 6 p.m. in the second floor Salon, we’ll host a Literary Costume Contest, with a prize awarded for the best literary-themed costume. There will also be refreshments!
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And at 7 p.m., also in the second floor Salon, we are hosting a Ghosts of Maine author talk led by Marcus Librizzi, the author of several volumes of Maine-based ghost stories and folklore as well as a writer of dark fiction and a professor in the University of Maine System. There will be a short reading from his work and a conversation about his insights on horror fiction, Maine ghost tales, and other spooky topics for Halloween. Some books will be available for purchase, and refreshments will be available.
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Special Collections News: Homecoming; UMaine Sports Hall of Fame exhibit | |
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Special Collections & Projects archivists welcomed alums back to campus on Friday and Saturday with tours of Special Collections. University Archivist Matthew Revitt also exhibited artifacts from the University Archive at the Annual Alumni Reception held at Buchanan Alumni House (see photo) and provided memorabilia and photographs for an exhibit at the Department of Music’s homecoming event.
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Revitt also helped the Athletics Department celebrate this year’s UMaine Sports Hall of Fame ceremony with memorabilia from the University Archive on display for each of the award recipients. | | |
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Featured resource: Zoological Record
Worldwide in coverage, Zoological Record indexes the complete range of zoological subjects including animal behavior, genetics, parasitology, ecology, habitat, reproduction, zoogeography, evolution, nutrition, and taxonomy. It is a comprehensive resource for taxonomy. Approximately 6,000 serial publications, a broad range of monograph titles, proceedings volumes, and reports are indexed with approximately 72,000 entries added per year. Searching is by author, title, publication source, subject, geographic location, taxonomic nomenclature. Although abstracts are not included, detailed indexing is present for each entry, with a focus on systematics. Zoological Record searchers should rely on the detailed subject and systematic thesauri for effective searching. Updated monthly.
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