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Penn State University Libraries

We’re continually looking for innovative or practical service ideas. Below are some services that are being provided by libraries to scholars at other research institutions – Would you use any these?  Have other ideas to suggest of scholarly services that could be offered to assist you?  Please let us know! Contact Linda Friend (814-865-0673), or Patricia Hswe (814-865-3702), to set up a time to meet and discuss your ideas.

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Publishing

Would you use:

  • Software to publish a journal or similar content
  • Place to post and share images useful in the curriculum
  • A platform for managing electronic publication and distribution of journals, monographs, and other scholarly content
  • Software to run a conference and publish the papers
  • Support for personally developing and providing access to scholarly multimedia
  • Digitization service for printed text or images
  • Text assistance. e.g. Scanning books, papers, maps, and images; slides and •OCR and text capture; PDF creation

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Support for Research

Would you be interested in:

  • An online meeting place where you could locate other researchers at Penn State who could be working on a similar focus to yours
  • A database where you could share your articles (items where you hold the copyright or where your publishing contract allows you to make them available electronically)
  • The ability to identify other Penn State researchers working on complementary projects
  • Talking to the librarian liaison for your discipline

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Working Session / Consultation

Would you come to a working session or consultation about:

  • Reading a publisher contract and keeping as many of your content and distribution rights as possible
  • Managing the research data you collect and learning about data management basics
  • Using bibliography software       
  •  Poster session development & production
  • Scanning to create image files, PDFs, etc.
  • Media in the classroom
  • The impact of open access publishing on others’ ability to find and cite your work       
  • Using library databases and other resources more efficiently
  • A digital project you’d like to propose for the Libraries to consider
  • Advanced features in Google (Scholar, translator, bookmarks, Googledocs, more)
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