Over the last year, the Libraries have added programs, collections and resources designed to support research, publication and student success. To stay in the know about what’s new at the Libraries, check out our New Resources webpage.
Supporting Research and Publication
The Libraries continue to invest in high-impact journal collections. During 2020-21, we went beyond simple subscriptions to signing transformative agreements with key publishers. These new agreements provide access to a wider range of titles and, in one case, provide financial support for campus authors who wish to publish their articles Open Access. The Open Access publishing model supports free access to information and unrestricted use of electronic resources for everyone, meaning your research is seen by more readers worldwide. Learn more about publishing Open Access in our research guide.
Cambridge Complete Journal Collection
This collection provides access to nearly 400 scholarly journals in the fields of humanities, social sciences, science, and mathematics. The Libraries have negotiated support for our researchers to publish open access in Cambridge journals.
ScienceDirect Freedom Collection
Expanded access to more than 2,000 titles from Elsevier in most cases back to 1995. This important new subscription is shared by University of Arkansas campuses across the state.
Data Planet
Provides access to statistical data produced by U.S. Federal agencies, states, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations. There are over 52 billion data points available in charts, maps, views, rankings, time series and tables in the Data Planet repository.
The developing Data Science program on our campus requires new resources that go beyond articles and books. Data Planet joins the resources and training offerings from our Library Data Services program.
Open Access Publishing Fund
With funding from seven colleges and campus units, the Libraries created the Open Access Publishing Fund. Authors who do not have another source of funding can apply for up to $2,000 to cover publishing costs for an open access journal article or monograph.
Supporting Student Success: Social Sciences
These new collections from Sage offer the online media and key, current texts students need in an age of hybrid class offerings.
Sage Video
Streaming videos covering key concepts, case studies, interviews, and in-practice sessions or demonstrations. In 11 topics areas including Business and Management, Counseling & Psychotherapy, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Media, Communication, & Cultural Studies, Nursing, Political Science & International Relations, Social Work, and Sociology.
Sage Books
An ebook collection covering the social sciences, including both academic and professional titles. The ebooks are “DREM free” meaning that there are no limits on simultaneous users, making them ideal for class readings. Selected titles include Inkblot Personality Test: Understanding the Unconscious Mind, Crisis Management: Resilience and Change, and The Movement and Technology Balance: Classroom Strategies for Student Success.
Sage Reference
A selection of authoritative and scholarly handbooks, dictionaries, and encyclopedias in the social sciences. Featuring titles such as Issues in Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, The SAGE Handbook of Contemporary Cross-Cultural Management, and The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies.
Supporting Student Success: Sciences
Every author has questions about proper formatting and citation styles; the Libraries continue to invest in online publication manuals that go beyond these straightforward queries to providing guidance for new authors throughout the publication life cycle. The new ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication joins existing library services such as the Chicago Manual of Style online.
ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication
This new tool from the American Chemical Society provides guidance on ethics and scientific research, the editorial process, peer review, and copyright, in addition to the mechanics of writing and citation format.
Supporting Student Success: Primary Sources in the Humanities
The Libraries have long subscribed to selected primary text collections from Accessible Archives, including the Pennsylvania Gazette and Civil War Newspapers. We’ve expanded those offerings to the entire suite of Accessible Archives collections, including selected resources offering page images in addition to full text searching. These collections offer opportunities for students interested in business and medical, struggles for emancipation and the voting franchise, social movements and protest, even fashion and design. Selected collections include:
African American Newspapers
Includes the full text of titles such as Freedom’s Journal, Frederick Douglass’ Paper, and the Freedman’s Record.
America and World War I Part I. American Military Camp Newspapers
Includes titles such as Afloat and Ashore and The Service Record, treating topics from mobilization to the occupation of Germany.
American County Histories
A genealogist’s treasure trove, with detailed coverage of local history, geology, geography, weather, transportation, lists of all local participants in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, government, the medical and legal professions, churches and ministers, industry and manufacturing, banking and insurance, schools and teachers, and more.
Anatomy of Protest in America
Offers books and newspaper articles with first-hand accounts of events such as Turner’s Rebellion to the Haymarket. Treats movements and issues such as populism, abolition, and race relations.
Civil War Collection
Offers newspaper articles, memoirs, pamphlets, and regimental histories. Includes some pre-war abolitionist materials.
Frank Leslie’s Weekly
The full text and page images of the American illustrated literary and news publication.
Quarantine and Infectious Disease Control
Offers newspaper and book-length works treating the history of disease in America, including topics such as smallpox, yellow fever, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, influenza, and the development of vaccines.
Godey’s Lady’s Book
Provides the full text and page images of the popular fashion weekly. In addition to extensive fashion descriptions and plates, topics covered included biographical sketches, articles about mineralogy, handcrafts, female costume, the dance, equestrienne procedures, health and hygiene, recipes and remedies, sheet music, and stories, poems, and essays.
The Liberator
Offers the full text of William Lloyd Garrison’s weekly abolitionist newspaper.
Reconstruction of Southern States: Pamphlets
Pamphlets collected by the Department of State Library and related to the restoration of the Union, transformation of Southern society, and enactment of progressive legislation favoring the rights of formerly enslaved people,
Virginia Gazette
The first colonial newspaper published in the South.
Women’s Suffrage Collection
Offers U.S. periodicals, newspapers, and books promoting women’s suffrage as well as some anti-suffrage publications.
Newspapers: from Today’s Front Page to Historical Archives
In addition to the papers featured in the Accessible Archives collection, the Libraries have added current and past titles to expands our already robust collection of online papers.
Page images for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Read the full paper cover-to-cover, complete with advertisements, color photos, syndicated features, and more.
African American Newspapers: Series 2, 1835-1956
This companion to Series 1, already held by the Libraries, offers full text newspapers from locations such as Helena, AR, Wichita, KS, Springfield, MO, Nashville and Seattle, many of them scarce and represented by one single issue.
World Newspaper Archive: Latin American Newspapers, Series 1
Provides a searchable collection with page images of historical papers from South and Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean.
Global Press Archive
Series covering Independent and Revolutionary Mexican, Imperial Russian, and Middle Eastern and North African papers preserve “the first draft of history” from around the world. These open access collections are free to all.
New Digital and Open Collections Created by your Libraries
ArchivesSpace at the University of Arkansas
This new search engine describes the University of Arkansas’ manuscript collections. Search by keyword, collection name, author/creator, or subject.
Mimeograph Series, Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station
“The Mimeograph Series digital collection is a project sponsored by Project CERES, with funding from the Center for Research Libraries (CRL). This is the fifth award earned from the CRL which has contributed to a series of five digital collections that recount the history of agriculture in Arkansas. Collections preceding the Mimeograph Series are the Arkansas Extension Circulars, the Bulletins, the Miscellaneous Publications, and the Annual Reports. The University Libraries project team was composed of Necia Parker-Gibson, Agriculture Librarian and Principal Investigator; Deborah E. Kulczak, Head of Technical Services and Database Maintenance Unit; Rachel Herbaugh, Cataloging Librarian; and Martha A. Anderson, Head of Digital Services Department.” This collection is composed of 6,012 single scans.
Agriculture Research Series
A digital project created in partnership with ScholarWorks. The main collaborators for this project are Cedar Middleton, Institutional Repository Coordinator, and Melody Herr, Head of the Office of Scholarly Communications. In 2020, the DSD staff processed 4,267 single scans.
University of Arkansas Yearbooks
“The University of Arkansas Yearbooks’ digital collection at includes all yearbooks from 1897 until the present time except for the 1899 volume. The collection will be updated annually as more issues are published after the 2018 issue.
The University Libraries project team is composed of Amy Allen, University Archivist; Lori Birrell, Associate Dean for Special Collections; Deborah E. Kulczak, Head of Technical Services and Database Maintenance Unit; and Martha A. Anderson, Head of Digital Services.”
In 2020, 16,869 single scans were added to the digital collection. The whole collection is composed of 42, 094 which includes all scans from 2018 through 2020.
University of Arkansas Picture Collection
An organic digital collection published in November of 2020. As of today the collection is composed of 1,167 images. At completion, the University of Arkansas Picture Collection will provide access to roughly 5,500 photographs. Additional content will be added on the monthly basis until completion is reached.
Due to provenance and original cataloging workflows, this project requires the digitization of the front and back of each photograph plus the index cards related to this work. In 2020, 474 single scans were contributed to this project. The total number of scans provided for this project is 17,192 single scans.
The University Libraries project team is composed of Amy Allen, University Archivist; Deborah E. Kulczak, Head of Technical Services, and Database Maintenance Unit; and Martha A. Anderson, Head of Digital Services. Additional historical research was conducted by Heath Robinson, University Archives Assistant.
Fulbright Program History
Cultural and educational exchange has served as a pillar of international diplomacy for decades, but this hasn’t always been the case. One of the most recognizable international exchange programs is the United States’ Fulbright Program, which works with universities, schools, binational Fulbright commissions, government agencies, and nongovernmental organizations and businesses to seek out and select nominees through a competitive merit-based process. Individuals who have participated in the Fulbright Program have gone on to be leaders in their home communities in education, government, business, and non-profit organizations.
Published: October 2021
Campus Life and the Life of the Campus: 150 Years on ‘The Hill’
On January 22, 1872, eight students began their college experience in Fayetteville at Arkansas Industrial University, attending classes in a former farmhouse on 160 recently purchased acres of the McIlroy family’s farm. The students in this inaugural, co-ed class became Arkansas’ first beneficiaries of the federal Morrill Act of 1862, which provided grants to western states to establish colleges with an emphasis on “agriculture and the mechanical arts.” Change was immediate and constant; by the start of the twentieth century, the student body numbered well over 100 strong, the building now known as Old Main had long been in use, and the name of the university had been changed to the University of Arkansas, better reflecting the school’s state flagship status.
Published: August 2021.