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Equitable Access to Scholarly Articles Authored by UMD Faculty: A Proposed Campus Approach from the UMD PACT Working Group

Researchers and scholars at the University of Maryland are on the front lines, creating knowledge and developing innovative solutions to enhance the lives, well-being, and health… Continue

Draft licensing principles have been produced and endorsed by members of UMD PACT.

These principles are open for comment from October 5, 2021 - March 27, 2021. We welcome your feedback. Please review the Licensing Principles and share your comments through this online form.

University of Maryland Libraries have taken advantage of the HathiTrust Emergency Temporary Access Service (ETAS) since April of this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. ETAS has made it possible for Maryland students, faculty, and researchers to obtain lawful access to specific digital materials in HathiTrust that correspond to over 923,000 titles held in print at UMD.

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Libraries has added its first four courses to the UMD Open Learning, a non-credit course catalog for the University of Maryland community and beyond hosted by the Office of Extended Studies. Registration for Introduction to R Language Programming,… Continue

The Annual Undergraduate Research Day (URD), hosted by the Maryland Center for Undergraduate Research, was hosted online this year through the Libraries DRUM (Digital Repository at the University of Maryland) platform. URD is Maryland’s largest, most visible, and most diversified showcase for undergraduate research accomplishments. Explore undergraduates’ remarkable research accomplishments at go.umd.edu/urd2020.

MD-SOAR (mdsoar.org) is a shared digital repository platform for eleven colleges and universities in Maryland. It is currently funded by the University System of Maryland and Affiliated Institutions (USMAI) Library Consortium (usmai.org) and other participating partner institutions. MD-SOAR is jointly governed by all participating libraries, who have agreed to share policies… Continue

University of Maryland Libraries is now among ten Big Ten Academic Alliance libraries to join the Collaborative Archive & Data Research Environment (CADRE). CADRE provides researchers access to secure, high-quality data documenting academic research, publication trends, and patents in all knowledge domains. Maryland-affiliated researchers will now have access to CADRE’s highest level of data and text… Continue