This exhibit presents some of the results of a collaborative research project funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG. For its Minnesota run it is augmented by objects from the large collection of artifacts from the University of Minnesota Libraries. Visitors of the exhibit wil travel through several centuries and to a series of cities. Topics include the development of early modern cities, Jewish communities and Jewish-Christian relations, the education of girls, money lending in the Middle Ages, papermaking and the new media, and markets in the early industrial age.

This exhibit runs through Thursday, April 30, 2009 and is located in Wilson Library and 1st and 4th floors and Elmer L. Andersen Library.

Read about the Libraries' efforts to help keep faculty informed about ways to retain your rights in the recent Daily article. and also note this article in the Chronicle:

The Chronicle of Higher Education
February 12, 2008
Harvard Faculty Adopts Open-Access Requirement

Authors Rights and Scholarly Publishing

The cost of acquiring scholarly publications have risen dramatically in the last decade and the the Libraries' are actively working to educate scholars on how authors may retain the rights to their writings after they are published. At its May 3 meeting, the University Senate unanimously endorsed a new CIC Author's Addendum and its accompanying statement on publishing agreements. By signing the addendum and submitting it with the publisher's standard agreement, U of MN authors can retain their rights: * to use their own articles in their teaching and other professional activities * to post their articles on their own web sites or on sites maintained by the U of MN / scholarly societies / funding agencies (6 months after the date of publication) * to grant the U of MN the right to distribute their articles for teaching and research purposes For more information on what you can do to secure your rights as an author, check the Author’s Rights page at http://www.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/au-rights.phtml.

For more information on alternative publishing models, what others in the academic community are doing, publisher’s policies, and copyright issues see the new Transforming Scholarly Communication website at http://www.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/index.phtml .

We would like to hear what you think about these issues! Please contact your librarian or post your thoughts to our blog at http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/079191.html .

E-journals for German and Dutch language and literature can be seen here. (Scroll down a few inches for the first title.)

This exhibit runs through December 31, 2007.

To learn more about the move, check out the move http://www.lib.umn.edu/books/dewey07/dewFAQ.phtml.

To search the database of titles proposed for transfer, go here: http://www.lib.umn.edu/books/dewey07/dewReview.phtml .

Any questions or suggestions? Please contact Laura Dale Bischof bisch004@umn.edu or Gordon Anderson ganderso@umn.edu

Affliated users and users in the U Libraries can access this database at http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/fiaf.cgi.

For more information about the content of and access to the Visual History Archives, please see the UMN News article and the Visual History Archives site at http://www.lib.umn.edu/vha/.

The Academic Blend Café offers fresh coffee, espresso drinks, and pastries. Open hours are M-Th, 7am - 8pm and Friday 7am - 4pm.

You will find a list of journals that are candidates for transfer on the Wilson Periodicals Transfer to MLAC, Spring 2007 page. In you are concerned, please review the lists and let us know which titles you would like to keep in Wilson.

Thank you! Deadline is early April.