02/04/2026
By Galadriel Chilton

Welcome to the spring semester!

We look forward to supporting your learning, research, and teaching endeavors; and I’m pleased to share updates from UML Library:

Library Staff

  • Rose Paton – Please stop by the 4th floor of O’Leary on Thursday, Feb. 12 between 1 and 4 p.m. as we celebrate Rose’s upcoming retirement and thank her for her 39 years of service to UML Library!
  • Chelsea Graham joined UMass Lowell on Monday, Jan. 26 as our new Access Services Manager Librarian in O’Leary Library.
  • Marissa Mozek will join UMass Lowell on Monday, March 16 as our new Access Services Manager Librarian in Lydon Library.


UML Research, Archives and Data Repository (RAD)

Launched last fall, the UMass Lowell Research, Archives, and Data (UML RAD) repository provides UML community members with a permanent place to share their academic work and research data. This is part of the library’s concentrated effort to preserve, share, and celebrate the important scholarship created by the UML community. UML RAD enables scholarly output (such as papers, research data, conference presentations, images, and more) to be publicly accessible, discoverable, citable, and backed by a preservation process that fulfills grant funding agencies’ data management and sharing requirements. Please email Nikki Tantum, Digital Initiatives Archivist, with any questions: nicole_tantum@uml.edu.


New Journal Subscriptions and Open Access Publication Support

  • Thanks to funding from Academic Affairs and UML Library, UMass Lowell will be joining the Open Journals Collective (OJC), diamond open access initiative whereby values-aligned organizations like libraries and consortia support university-based publishers making academic journals free to read and free to publish in. OJC Collections currently include 291 journals: 200 in arts, humanities, and social sciences as well as 91 STEM titles.
  • UML now subscribes to Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press journals, adding 819 titles to the library’s collection. As part of the new subscription agreement, UML researchers can publish open access in gold or hybrid open access journals published by Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press without paying Article Processing Charges (APCs). Use our Library Support for Publishing LibGuide for guidelines on publishing open access with these and other publishers.

What books should all UMass Lowell students read?

One of my priorities for UML Library is expanding the collection of online and print resources that reflects our community’s research, teaching, and learning needs, and I seek your help: what three books would UML faculty and staff recommend that every UMass Lowell student read? Not only will your responses help create a diverse book collection and cultivate community, but it will also enable an excellent and engaging book display. Prior to being available for check-out, library staff will add a book plate to the books honoring the recommender. Please share your three book titles via this form  by Feb. 27.

New Online Resources

In response to feedback from the Spring 2024 faculty survey, here are a few highlights of new online resources available from the library:

As the semester progresses, we welcome hearing how the UML Library can support you.

Please share your feedback, request a purchase for the library’s collection, or email me: galadriel_chilton@uml.edu.

Students are also invited to join UML Library’s Student Advisory Committee.

Best wishes for an excellent semester.