Bias and inequity in scholarly publishing is an often-neglected topic. Thanks to our UC and California Digital Library for this terrific primer!

Knowing the names of the custodial staff who clean your office does more to move the university toward equity than any DEI or anti racist bullet point on your CV ever could.

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We 💚 our colleagues with SCL and the Sonoma County Archives. (And, check out the Sonoma State Library's Gaye LeBaron Collection for research notes, primary source materials, and her other papers relating to North Bay history: library.sonoma.edu/specialcollect…

Library tools are always evolving and improving, and Sonoma State Library wanted to share some cool new functionality in our library search tool!

For this #tbt, Sonoma State Library is looking at materials published pre-2000 to see what experts and scholars were saying about a technology made available to the public in 1993: the World Wide Web. These items, and many more, are on display on the 2nd floor of the Library.

We've been delighted to see instructors bringing their classes in to view the exhibit and discuss how it reflects various aspects of SSU life over the decades.

If you missed yesterday's fabulous Sonoma State Library-led It Matters! session, mark your calendars for October 9 and the next lunchtime presentation in this civic engagement series!

We now have 25 profiles of #OpenAccess organizations working to make research open by default & equitable by design: openaccessweek.org/theme-profiles. Read how @juancommander at Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is embracing the #OAWeek focus on "Community over Commercialization" here: openaccessweek.org/theme-profiles…

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Curious about the library’s role in helping Seawolves become scholars and critical thinkers. Check this out!

We learn more from reading on paper than on screens. 54 studies, 171k people: we process print more deeply than digital content—as long as it's informational rather than purely narrative. The paper advantage holds across ages and has grown over time. Long live physical books.

U.S. federal agencies must provide free, immediate public access to peer-reviewed scholarly publications produced w/ support from federal grant $$$. Read about how the Federal Purpose License can enable #OpenAccess in this @Auths_Alliance paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…