This volume, the second of two in the series Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library that deals with the topic of open access in academic libraries, focuses on the implementation of open access in academic libraries.Chapters on the legalities and practicalities of open access in academic libraries address the issues associated with copyright, licensing, and intellectual property and include support for courses that require open access distribution of student work. The topic of l...

It is impossible to imagine the future of academic libraries without an extensive consideration of open access—the removal of price and permission barriers from scholarly research online. As textbook and journal subscription prices continue to rise, improvements in technology make online dissemination of scholarship less expensive, and faculty recognize the practical and philosophical appeal of making their work available to wider audiences. As a consequences, libraries have begun to consi...

Nebula Award Winning Authors brings together 22 classic science-fiction short stories from some of the most celebrated voices of the genre—including Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Silverberg, Clifford D. Simak, Nelson S. Bond, Jack Vance, Theodore Sturgeon, Fritz Leiber, and more.These stories represent science fiction at its most imaginative and enduring: tales of alien worlds, future societies, moral dilemmas, first contact, and cosmic...

Amidst the chaos of war, this spitfire girl will soar.As Europe edges closer to war, Bella’s world is focused on avoiding a future like her mother’s. She doesn’t want to go to secretarial school to become another proper young lady; standing by prettily waiting to be chosen as a wife by her employer or another suitable man.Bella wants more than that life can give. And like many women, her first opportunity for a different future comes when war is declared an...

Athol Dickson, Christy Award-winning author of The Cure, delivers riveting suspense. In this tantalizing gothic tale, a 15-year-old autistic savant vanishes from his Texas home without a trace. Thirteen years later, Siggy Gamble's body washes ashore on a remote island off the rocky coast of Maine. Arriving at Winter Haven to claim her brother, 24-year-old Vera is shocked to see Siggy hasn't aged at all. "Athol Dickson's prose is sterling, his story pure gold."-Kathryn Mackel, author