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March 31, 2025
Case School of Engineering PhD candidate Olatunde Akanbi’s agricultural and geospatial research synthesis involves so much data that a regular computer would crash trying to process it. Monitoring crop health and soil nutrient flows requires aggregating massive datasets, including satellite imagery ...
March 27, 2025
Last March, CWRU faculty adopted the Faculty Open Access (OA) Policy to provide wider dissemination of faculty’s scholarly articles. The OA Policy allows faculty members to retain rights to openly share and reuse their scholarly articles, including publicly posting their article in CWRU’s open acces...

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March 25, 2025
Kelvin Smith Library will join worldwide events, festivals, exhibitions and performances in celebrating the 250th Birthday of Jane Austen, her enduring legacy and her continued impact on literature and culture. Allison McGreal, an MA candidate in English literature, instructs the Spring 2025 Academi...

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March 17, 2025
Kelvin Smith Library has been welcomed as the newest sustaining member of APTrust, a consortium that accepts digital materials in all formats from member institutions and provides high quality digital preservation storage, active monitoring, and has established a community involved in digital preser...

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March 17, 2025
New Library Services Platform will Go Live June 23!
What you need to know!
Updated: 6/18/2025
Beginning June 23, explore a modernized search platform designed to make discovering and accessing library resources more streamlined!
The OhioLINK academic library consortium, which includes CWRU, has...

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March 16, 2025
Don't miss out on the last library Game Night on Wednesday, March 26 from 7-9 PM in the Freedman Center. Whether you bring your favorite game or choose one offered by KSL, it's a perfect opportunity to take a break, enjoy some snacks, hang out with a friend, or make new ones!
Register on CampusGrou...
March 13, 2025
In 2024, CWRU authors were able to publish 298 articles open access without paying article processing charges (APCs) through OhioLINK’s Open Access Publishing Agreements. These agreements saved authors more than $1.1 million in publication fees without adding additional costs to CWRU Libraries.
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February 26, 2025
As part of Kelvin Smith Library’s software migration, faculty members are asked to request book purchases by Feb. 28, as the upgrade will temporarily pause some services this spring. Read more about the project timeline and how to submit your requests....

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February 26, 2025
Are you ready to dive deeper into the world of artificial intelligence (AI)? The newly launched CWRU AI Playground developed by [U]Tech in collaboration with the AI Task Force is available to help you explore a variety of AI applications that can increase your workflow productivity and efficiency.
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February 06, 2025
The Freedman Fellows Program is now accepting applications for the 2025-2026 academic year.
Freedman Fellowships are year-long fellowships for CWRU faculty to develop research projects over the course of an academic year with targeted funding and support from technical experts and subject-matter sp...