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There is a lot of news coverage about COVID-19 out there, but what about the research?  Many academic publishers and platforms are compiling scholarship related to Novel Coronavirus Disease available and making it available to the public.  Check out the resources below to see what researchers are saying.

LitCovid from NCBI/NLM – LitCovid is a curated literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information about the 2019 novel Coronavirus. It is the most comprehensive resource on the subject, providing a central access peer-review articles. The articles are updated daily and are further categorized by different research topics and geographic locations for improved access.

Elsevier’s Novel Coronavirus Information Center – Elsevier’s Novel Coronavirus Information Center contains expert, curated information for the research and health community on Novel Coronavirus (also referred to as COVID-19 and its temporary title 2019-nCoV). All resources, including every article relevant article to Coronavirus, SARS, and MERS,  are free to access and include guidelines for clinicians and patients.

New England Journal of Medicine – New England Journal of Medicine’s collection of articles and other resources on the Coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak, including clinical reports, management guidelines, and commentary.

The BMJ – Research, News, Editorials, and other resources from The BMJ about the coronavirus outbreak. All articles and resources are freely available.

American Society for Microbiology  – Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resources – American Society for Microbiology is providing free access to nearly 50 research articles published over the last year in ASM’s 16 scholarly journals to support research efforts and communications about the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

Springer Nature – SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 – Springer Nature is providing direct access to related research articles from their journals, as well as additional commentary on this topic and relevant books. All content listed here is free to access.

Chongqing Weipu Information Co., Ltd – In order to facilitate the education, work and life of the general public, Chongqing Weipu Information Co., Ltd., (formerly known as the Database Research Center of the Chongqing Branch of the China Institute of Science and Technology Information)  is open to readers for free during the epidemic prevention and control period.

Oxford University Press – Oxford University Press has made content from online resources and leading journals freely accessible to assist researchers, medical professionals, policy makers, and others who are working to address this potential health crisis.

Taylor & Francis – Coronavirus Reading List – All coronavirus-related, peer-reviewed research published in Taylor & Francis journals is now free to access and available for anyone to read.

Wiley Online Library – Covid-19: Novel Coronavirus Outbreak – Wiley has made the relevant research articles, book chapters and entries in their major references freely available in support of the global efforts in diagnosis, treatment, prevention and further research in this disease and similar viral respiratory infections.

Elsevier Coronavirus Research Repository – Elsevier Coronavirus Research Repository, presenting scholarly articles on COVID-19, SARS, MERS and other coronaviruses research

The Lancet – COVID-19 Resource Centre – The Lancet has created a Coronavirus Resource Centre. This resource brings together new 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) content from across The Lancet journals as it is published. All content listed on this page is free to access.

SSRN – Coronavirus and Infectious Disease Research – SSRN’s Coronavirus and Infectious Disease Research page provides a curated view into the early-stage research to help researchers, public health authorities, clinicians and the public understand, contain and manage this disease. Research on SSRN is free to download. It is important to note that these papers have not benefited from the pivotal role of peer-review, which validates and improves the quality of final published journal articles.

Cell Press Coronavirus Resource Hub – Cell Press has compiled  a free-to-access and open archive research related to the biology and spread of coronaviruses. New research and commentaries will be added as papers appear online.

You can also keep up-to-date on the Coronavirus Disease situation with the Centers for Disease Control at https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/summary.html

Information about  Bowdoin’s response can be found at https://www.bowdoin.edu/covid-19/index.html

Please join us for the opening of The Ramp Gallery’s spring 2020 exhibit: Wanderlust.

Meet the artists and talk to them about their travels.

Thursday, February 27, 4:30 – 6:00 p.m.

The Ramp Gallery is located in Hawthorne-Longfellow Library, basement level, and features student art work.

If you are a faculty member, you may puzzle over the best way to explain citation and attribution to your students. It’s complicated–there are the formats and styles of said citations in MLA, APA, ACS, Chicago, and more, and each with its own idiosyncratic management of periods, commas, and italics. There are the purpose and function of attribution. And, then there are the ethical and legal dimensions of attribution, which range from giving credit where credit is due to copyright and fair use.

Students must wonder about the arcane and seemingly infinite conventions for documenting information and for making their contributions to scholarly knowledge. We know that many students worry about accusations of plagiarism, their anxiety fueled by their uncertainty about their professors’ expectations, how attribution and citation work in an academic context, and how to find their own voices in the process of synthesizing ‘authoritative’ ones through their writing.

This panel will explore the role of attribution in student writing from a variety of perspectives: is there pedagogical value in asking students to adhere to disciplinary conventions for documentation . . . or is it a technical afterthought? What is the nature of our institutional messaging to students about ‘citation,’ ‘academic honesty,’ and ‘plagiarism’? What definitions and structures of expertise and authority do we privilege in our approaches to the role of attribution in student work, and how do these definitions and structures contribute to student learning and to students seeing themselves as experts? How can we use a topic like bibliographic citation and attribution to show students the importance of membership in a community (or communities) of practice?

Panelists

• Kathryn Byrnes, Director of the Baldwin Center for Learning and Teaching
• Karen Jung, Music Librarian; Coordinator of Research and Instructional Services
• Meredith McCarroll, Director of Writing and Rhetoric and of the First Year Seminar Program
• Katherine O’Grady, Associate Dean of Student Affairs and Community Standards
• Jessica Perez, THRIVE Director

Moderator

Erin Valentino, Associate Librarian for Research, Instruction, and Outreach

The panel will take place on Friday, February 21, 8:45-10:00 a.m. in Nixon Lounge, H-L Library. COFFEE and a light continental breakfast will be served.

Questions? Please contact Erin Valentino, evalenti@bowdoin.edu.

The Library provides access to a fabulous selection of online primary and secondary resources for research on African American history– take a look!

• Accessible Archives (includes several historical African American newspapers)
• African American Artists on Kanopy Streaming Video (films)
• African American Music Reference
• African American Periodicals 1825-1995
• African American Newspapers 1827-1998
• African Newspapers 1800-1922
• Afro-Americana Imprints
• American Civil War Collection, 1860-1922
• American Music (includes African American genre)
• American Slavery Collection
• Black Freedom Struggle, including the NAACP papers and Plantation Records
• Black Studies Center
• Chicago Defender Archive 1910-1975
• Contemporary World Music
• New York Amsterdam News Archive 1922-1993
• Oxford African American Studies Center
• Slavery in America and the World

Please join us for the opening of The Ramp Gallery’s fall 2019 exhibit: Perceptions of Beauty.

Thursday, October 24, 4:30 – 6:00 p.m.

The Ramp Gallery is located in Hawthorne-Longfellow Library, basement level, and features student art work.

Sunday, April 7 | 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.

Wednesday, April 10 | 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.

Hatch 012 (downstairs seminar room in Hatch Science Library)

RSVP: Jeff Cosgrove-Cook (jcook3@bowdoin.edu) before April 5. Space is limited.

• Teaching the Collections: Using Objects From Bowdoin Museums and Special Collections
  March 29, 2019 | 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM

• Faculty Panel – Book Publishing Today: Voices of Experience
  April 3, 2019 | 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM

• Spark of Learning Teaching Hack: Does it Spark Joy? Exploring Self-regulation and Appraisal in Teaching and Learning
  April 10, 2019 | 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM

On Friday, February 8^th, the Library celebrated ten years of the Bowdoin Reads project, the feature on the Library homepage showcasing what the Bowdoin community is reading.  Begun a little over ten years ago (officially August, 2008), the site has featured over two hundred readers since its inception, rotating faculty, staff, and student readers monthly.  In 2017, we expanded Bowdoin Reads to include watching and listening.

To help us celebrate, we invited some recent past participants to talk about and read from a chosen book. Eduardo Pazos Palma, Director of Religious and Spiritual Life read from Flourishing : Why we need religion in a globalized world, by Miroslav Volf; Michael Friedland, ’21 read from Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore; and Osterweis Associate Professor of German, Jill Smith, read from What I Saw by Joseph Roth.  We all enjoyed a fabulous book-shaped cake from the Union Street Bakery.

What has Bowdoin been reading all these years?  We’ve provided a list of books (and a few audio/video titles) which you can also find on the Bowdoin Reads Goodreads site.

Contact Joan Campbell if you, too, would like to participate in Bowdoin Reads|Watches|Listens.

See also the story about the celebration written by Assistant Director of Communications for News Content, Rebecca Goldfine.