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Pollard Memorial Library Visits UMass Lowell

Pollard Memorial Library in Lowell, Massachusetts.

Did you make a resolution to read more books this year? We can help with that! The Pollard Memorial Library, Lowell’s public library, will be visiting Lydon and O’Leary library through the semester to bring you more books!

Stop by to get a library card so you can check out their books. They have access to Hoopla, Libb, and ComicsPlus! You can check out print books from their book carts. Ask them about CreativeBug, which can help you learn new crafts. Learn more about their newspaper collections that can show you historical papers as well as current ones.

Their next visits will be:

  • Lydon Library on January 28 from 1-3 p.m. at the first floor table
  • O’Leary Library on January 30 from 1-3p.m. at the first floor tables

There will be more dates later this semester.

University Library Offers New Open Access Publishing Options!

Orange "Open Access" Lock.

The University Library is working with publishers to make open access publishing easier for our faculty and researchers. In addition to Wiley and Institute of Physics (IOP), we recently added agreements with the American Chemical Society, the Company of Biologists, American Society for Microbiology, and Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). Starting in 2025 those publishing in journals from these publishers have the option to have their articles published open access. The library's contract with the publisher waives the open access article processing charges (APCs). For more details about each publisher partnership, visit the Library Support for Publishing page in our Faculty Guide.

Open access articles are freely accessible online to anyone who wishes to read them. They are often identified by an orange unlocked padlock icon. Articles published open access go through the same rigorous peer review process as other scholarly articles. The difference is how accessible these articles are to the public. They don’t get stored behind paywalls or require high fees to access. In 2022 the U.S. federal government expanded open access requirements. Almost all articles written about research funded with public funds will soon need to be published as open access. The University Library is taking the lead at UML to make this easier for our community.

If you have questions about this agreement or would like us to talk to a publisher you regularly work with, please contact Alice Pearman, Assistant Director for Library Collections by email: Alice_Pearman@uml.edu.