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Faculty: Apply for a Grant to Switch to Open Textbooks & Course Materials
Posted October 7, 2025
Are you concerned about the high cost of course materials for your students? Apply for a VIVA Open Grant of up to $50,000 to help eliminate textbook costs and reduce the financial burden of higher education for Virginia students. Offered […]
From 1992 to Today: The Spirit of Change in JMU Libraries
Posted October 7, 2025
As you reminisce during Homecoming, imagine opening a time capsule from 1992 and glimpsing how people at JMU envisioned the future of our campus libraries. You’d find predictions about technology in classrooms, distance learning, and preparing to teach things that […]
New Workshop for Instructors: Writing Effective AI Prompts for Teaching
Posted October 7, 2025
Discover the emerging practice of artificial intelligence (AI) prompt engineering—the skill of writing effective prompts or inputs to generate useful, accurate, and ethically responsible outputs from AI tools. Our new workshop will introduce the fundamentals of prompt structure, showcase examples tailored […]
Who Owns Our Knowledge? Open Access Week 2025 at JMU
Posted October 6, 2025
Scholarly work and research created at JMU advances the public good and the global academic community. However, getting new knowledge into the hands of scholars, policymakers, students, and the public is often harder than it should be. Too often, commercial […]
4 Free Tools to Make Your Research Easier
Posted October 3, 2025
1. Research Guides Looking for sources you can’t find on Google? Research Guides are pages on the Libraries website that point you to the very best databases and resources for research on a specific subject. They are created by JMU […]
Get Scanned Articles and Chapters Delivered to Your Inbox
Posted October 3, 2025
If you thought you needed to be on campus to access physical items in the JMU Libraries collection, we have good news! You can request scanned/digital copies of articles and book chapters to be sent to you via email! How […]
When to Visit the JMU Writing Center vs. JMU Libraries
Posted October 1, 2025
JMU students, whether you’re in the middle of a big research paper or figuring out where to start, JMU has your back. The JMU Writing Center and JMU Libraries can help you with your research assignments in slightly different ways. […]
Freely Available Photos and Music for Assignments
Posted October 1, 2025
If any of your assignments require images, music, or video files, check out these resources that are freely available or licensed by JMU Libraries: For more sources for images, audio, video, and fonts and icons, check out our Free Media […]
A Better Way to Manage Your Research: The Open Science Framework (It’s Not Just for Science!)
Posted September 29, 2025
Effective research includes organizing, managing, sharing, and preserving your research outputs. The Open Science Framework (OSF) is a platform that supports researchers in any discipline throughout the entire research lifecycle—from study design to data sharing. Through JMU Libraries, you have enhanced […]
Panel Presentation for Open Access Week: Publishing an Open Access Journal with JMU Libraries
Posted September 29, 2025
Learn about open access publishing efforts at JMU by attending this panel discussion. Hear from current and former editors of the International Journal on Responsibility, as well as faculty and staff from the Libraries’ Data and Scholarly Communications department, about the collaborative […]
