News from February 2023

See all upcoming Libraries events — including our featured events, workshops, and exhibits — on the UMN Twin Cities Events Calendar.

Protect your work: so you can do what you want and share how you want

The University Libraries “encourage UMN authors to retain rights to their published works,” because it is one of the simplest ways an author can ensure wide public access to their work.

New Wiley agreement for open access publishing

Open access publishing is now free for University of Minnesota authors when they publish in Wiley journals.

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Falling in love sitting near maps

I recently read Feed, by M.T. Anderson, a novel in the future dystopia genre, aimed at a young adult audience, published in 2002. Like all the best dystopian fiction, this novel was visionary, and reading it today is at least a little painful. 2002 was a year before the launch of LinkedIn, two years before the start of Facebook, four years before Twitter, eight years before Instagram, nine years before Snapchat, 14 years before Tiktok – indeed, before any of the social media apps that now crowd our lives.