Kresge Library Holiday and Winter Break Hours

Kresge Library Services will be open on Monday, December 23 from 8am-4pm. We will be closed for the Holiday/Winter Break from Tuesday, December 24 - Wednesday, January 1, 2020.

The Library will reopen on Thursday, January 2. Reference Services will begin at 10am and Course Materials Services will open at 1pm. For more information on Library hours, see the Library Service Hours page.

Textbooks for Change Book Drive

Tashia Marie Munson on behalf of Library Operations Outreach

The library is once again participating in an end-of-semester book donation drive with the organization Textbooks for Change, in a collaboration with the organization's campus student ambassador Emma Smith. (Note: This campaign is unrelated to U-M Library's existing contract with Better World Books.) The goal of this drive will be for student donations to provide affordable and accessible educational material to local and global students in need. Students will be able to donate their used textbooks until the end of the semester at the following library locations:

• Shapiro Undergraduate Library, 919 University Ave S
• Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, 913 University Ave S
• Fine Arts Library, Tappan Building, 519 State St S, room 260
• Music Library, Earl V. Moore Building, School of Music, Theatre and Dance, 1100 Baits Dr
• Art, Architecture, and Engineering Library, Duderstadt Center

There are also drop boxes located at the School of Social Work and in Dow. Additional information about the Textbooks for Change can be found on their website, textbooksforchange.com.

If you have any questions or notice the drop boxes are filled past capacity, please contact the Library Operations Outreach Team at libraryoperationsoutreach@umich.edu.

Kresge Library Holiday Hours

Kresge Library Services will be closing for the Thanksgiving Holiday at 3pm on Wednesday, November 27. Chat Reference service will resume on Sunday at 4pm. Course Materials Pick Up/Exam & Assignment Review and in-person Reference will resume normal hours on Monday, December 2.

View the Library Hours Calendar

Copyright Events

Nov. 11th, 2 p.m., "Copyright and Coffee: Negotiating Publishing Contract"

Location: Shapiro 4004 (TAFR)

Description: At this workshop, you will learn useful negotiation concepts and skills that you can employ in your professional as well as personal life. You will also learn some basics of US copyright law and important terms you should look out for in a publishing contract. There will be two fun negotiation exercises for you to pair up and try out your skills.

Nov. 12th, 12 p.m., "New EU Copyright Directive: Stifling Expression by Shifting Infringement Liability to Content-Sharing Platforms"

Location: Law School Hutchins Hall 116

Description: The new highly debated EU Copyright Directive was adopted in May 2019, and EU Member states will have two years to implement its provisions in their national Law. One of the most debated elements of the new Copyright Directive is Article 17, which establishes a new liability regime for for-profit content-sharing platforms. Jancic will address the issues that EU Member States will need to consider to protect users' rights as much as possible in the process of implementing the new regime. Lunch will be served.

Nov. 13th, 2:30 p.m., "Can machine created works enjoy copyright protection in the EU?"

Location: Hatcher Clark Presentation Space

Description: Countries all over the world are trying hard to figure out how to handle works created by Artificial Intelligence. Join 

Slovenian copyright scholar Maja Bogataj Jancic to find out more about the EU approach.

There will also be a small group discussion led by Maja on Nov. 12, entitled "New EU Copyright Exception for Education." Space is limited; please contact xuyu@umich.edu if you are interested in this event. 

New MarketResearch.com Academic Platform and Features

MarketResearch.com Academic, a great resource for market research reports, has added some new functionality and updated their user interface. The next time you visit, you will see:

1. New full-text search engine – the Academic service now offers full text searching inside the body of the entire research document to find keywords that are perhaps not mentioned in the title or abstract of the reports. This vastly increases the relevance of the search engine and the capabilities to find useful content from deep within the report.
2. Improved accessibility and appearance – the new service has been designed to meet the standards of AA Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Accessibility is extremely important to the vendor and the new accessibility enhancements allows the site to be used by a wider audience.

MarketResearch.com Academic can be accessed via the Library's A-Z Database page.

Kresge Library Services Fall Instruction Sessions

Kresge Library Services offers instruction sessions to assist you in your research needs.  Current sessions include:

• Kresge Library Databases Overview
  Learn to find vital company, industry and financial information for class assignments (including Strategy) in Kresge Library databases.This session covers D&B Hoovers, IBISWorld, Marketline and Factiva (Wall Street Journal), and shows you when, where and how to get help.
  
• Kresge Library Resources for Your Off-Campus Job SearchThis session covers Vault Campus, Going Global, D&B Hoovers and CareerBeam. Find  company information for interviews and learn how to compile lists of companies to target.
  
  More info at the Kresge Library Services website
  

WRDS Downtime Scheduled for Aug 23rd 2019

The WRDS technical infrastructure will be undergoing a major upgrade from 8:00 - 11:00 AM EDT (GMT -4) on Friday, Aug 23rd 2019. During this time, most WRDS services will be unavailable. The website should only be inaccessible for 30 minutes near the beginning, but interactive services -- including the WRDS Cloud, SAS/Connect, SAS/Studio, Python, R, MATLAB, Stata, etc -- will be offline for the full duration of the window. Unique to this downtime only, all WRDS Cloud grid jobs -- both batch and interactive -- will be terminated. Please plan your research accordingly!

This is being done as part of a large-scale effort to upgrade WRDS infrastructure to the latest hardware and network configuration, to provide the best large-scale research platform we can. We hope you notice faster code execution, data access, and network response. Thank you very much for your patience while we work to improve our platform for you.

Fall Copyright Workshops 2

Copyright and Coffee: Public Domain

Oct 15th, 2-3p.m. Hatcher 806, Hatcher Graduate Library South

Please join us for coffee and to learn about copyright and the public domain. 
What is the public domain and how can you determine whether a work has entered the
public domain? You will learn how works enter the public domain and where you can 
find public domain works. This 60-minute workshop from Justin Bonfiglio of the 
U-M Library Copyright Office will focus primarily on the public domain but will
 also cover additional copyright-related topics, including Creative Commons licenses 
and fair use. All are welcome. Please register via TeachTech or by contacting 
Yuanxiao at xuyu@umich.edu. See the MLibrary website for more information.

Copyright and Your Dissertation: Don’t Get Spooked! 

Oct 31st, 2-3p.m. Clark Library Presentation Space

Have you ever wondered what is the difference between copyright infringement and 
plagiarism? Do you know when it’s okay to use copyrighted works without permission 
or how to get permission when you need it? Explore these and other questions about
copyright and dissertations in a workshop facilitated by Melissa Levine, Director of the 
U-M Library Copyright Office. This workshop is primarily designed for students in the 
Rackham Graduate School -- all are welcome. Please register via TeachTech or by 
contacting Yuanxiao at xuyu@umich.edu. See the MLibrary website for more information.

Copyright and Coffee: Publishing Contract

Nov. 11th, 2-3:30p.m. TAFR (Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Room 4004)

Please join us for coffee and to learn about how to negotiate common terms in scholarly

 publishing agreements in a workshop facilitated by Yuanxiao Xu of the U-M Library

 Copyright Office. This workshop will focus on publishing contracts for journal articles.

 After a brief discussion of negotiation techniques, some fun negotiation exercises, and 

an overview of the law in this area, participants will have the option to negotiate a mock

 publishing contract. All are welcome. Please register via TeachTech or by contacting 

Yuanxiao at xuyu@umich.edu. See the MLibrary website for more information.

Fall Copyright Workshops

Copyright and Coffee: Copyright Essentials

Sept 17th, 10-11a.m. TAFR (Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Room 4004)

Have you ever wondered whether you are allowed to use someone else’s work? Or whether you have a copyright in a work that you have created? If you are not entirely sure how copyright works, this is the workshop for you. Sip some coffee as we discuss the basics of copyright law in the US. This 90-minute workshop from Yuanxiao Xu of the U-M Library Copyright Office will cover copyright concepts from the public domain to fair use. All are welcome. Please register via TeachTech or by contacting Yuanxiao at xuyu@umich.edu. See the MLibrary website for more information.

Copyright and Coffee: the Open Access Publishing Trap Game

Oct. 3rd, 2-3:30p.m. TAFR (Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Room 4004)

Play a game over coffee and learn about Open Access! The Publishing Trap is a game about research dissemination and scholarly communication in higher education. The game follows the academic career of four characters who, at each stage in their career, from dissertation to tenure, are presented with a series of decisions. The game will be led by Raven Lanier. All are welcome. Please register via TeachTech or by contacting Yuanxiao at xuyu@umich.edu. See the MLibrary website for more information.

Simmons OneView is now Simmons Insights

Simmons OneView has undergone a name change and interface update. Simmons Insights still provides access to the same demographic, psychographic and media use characteristics of users of products, brands and services, but with an updated look.

This database is limited to Ross Users and Kresge Library Guests. Users will be required to provide their name and umich.edu email prior to each session.

Advertising Redbooks is now REDBOOKS

Advertising Redbooks, a directory of advertising agencies and other commercial firms, has recently been purchased by a new vendor. The database is now available on the Winmo platform through the REDBOOKS link on the Library's A-Z Database page. 

The new platform provides access to the same content, but with a new interface. Use the options under Advanced Search to find advertising agency information. The Creative section provides access to print and video advertisements.

REDBOOKS can be accessed via the Library's A-Z Database page. Access is available to all UM Ann Arbor Campus users.

Note: There are several parts of the Winmo platform that are not a part of the Library's subscription. Content access is limited to Advanced Search (Companies, Brands, Agencies, All Contacts) and Creative options only. All other content is not available.

D&B Hoovers Downloading is Not Working

D&B Hoovers is not currently allowing for downloads of records from company lists.  We are working with the vendor to try to resolve this issue.  You may currently retrieve OneStop reports for any company with D&B Hoovers.

In the interim, please use Mergent Intellect, Orbis or RefUSA as an alternative for downloading company information. 

4th of July Holiday Hours

Kresge Library Services will be closed Thursday, July 4th 2019 for the holiday.  Hours will be shortened the following day, July 5th to 10:00am to 3:00pm with full closure for the weekend.  Regular hours will resume Monday, July 8th. 

8th Annual Kresge Food Drive - Update

The 8th Kresge Annual Food Drive has come to a close and was a success. Together we collected over 33 boxes of food for Washtenaw County charities! We wish to thank everyone for your generous donations.

Fair Use Week @ U-M Library

From March 19 to 21, the U-M Library Copyright Office invites you to join us in celebrating Fair Use Week with a line-up of events that are free and open to the public. 

• Fair Use Week: Copyright Bingo - March 19, 2019, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
• Fair Use and Universities:  25 years of publishers fighting over the use of excerpts - March 20, 2019, 3:00 to 4:00 pm
• Fair Use Week: ‘Fair Use, What’s the Big Idea?’- Thursday, March 21, 12pm-1pm

Brought to you by the U-M Library Copyright Office and Fair Use Week!  If you have any questions about the event, please contact copyright@umich.edu. 

Trademark Workshops

The Art, Architecture & Engineering Library presents a series of three workshops from the US Patent & Trademark Office, led by Managing Attorney Craig Morris from the Office of the Commissioner for Trademarks.

Trademark Basics Program - Session 1
Tuesday March 26th
6:00pm - 7:30 pm
This workshop will cover how trademarks, copyrights, patents, domain names, and business name registrations all differ.
Also covered:
-what to do if another trademark owner sends a "cease-and-desist" letter
-how to apply to seek federal registration and the role of the USPTO
-how to avoid "scams" perpetrated by companies that request fees for services not required by the USPTO
-the importance of doing a complete search and whether or not to use an attorney

Where: RM 1180 Duderstadt Center
University of Michigan North Campus
2281 Bonisteel Blvd
Ann Arbor MI 48109-2094

Please register here

Trademark Basics Program - Session 2
Wednesday March 27th
9:30am-11:00 am
This workshop will cover how trademarks, copyrights, patents, domain names, and business name registrations all differ.
Also covered:
-what to do if another trademark owner sends a "cease-and-desist" letter
-how to apply to seek federal registration and the role of the USPTO
-how to avoid "scams" perpetrated by companies that request fees for services not required by the USPTO
-the importance of doing a complete search and whether or not to use an attorney

Where: Ann Arbor SPARK
SPARK Central Innovation Center
330 E. Liberty St, Lower Level
Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Please register here

USPTO’s Outreach Program for Graphic Designers
Wednesday March 27th
2:00pm-3:00 pm
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is looking to partner with colleges and universities that offer programs in graphic design, in order to present informational lectures on trademarks and copyrights. Graphic designers will learn the fundamentals of both trademarks and copyrights and the potential pitfalls of infringement. This program highlights how success as a graphic designer has as much to do with legal and ethical considerations as it does about being creative.

Where: Stamps Common Room 2440
Stamps Schools of Art & Design
University of Michigan
2000 Bonisteel Blvd.
Ann Arbor MI 48109-2069

Please register here

Market Data Added to Ad$pender

Data on advertising spending for over 100 US markets has been added to the Ad$pender database. Search for spending by market for brands, products and companiesn by media type. Market Data is available through December 31, 2019 thanks to research funding from the Economics Department.

Ad$pender is available on the Library's A-Z Database page

8th Annual Kresge Food Drive

From Tuesday March 5th through Friday May 24th, 2019 Kresge Library Services will be hosting our 8th annual food drive for Washtenaw County food banks.  Each year during our food drives,  we have collected over 50 boxes of food thanks to the generosity of the Ross Community.  Donations include: 

• Non-perishable food products 
•  Contained in factory-sealed containers
• Currently not expired products
• Not in glass containers (most food banks avoid these as they can break in transit)
• Sealed, non used personal products (razors, tooth paste, diapers, shampoo, soap etc)

Please drop off donations on the Kresge Library Services suite (K4521) on the 4th floor of Kresge Hall, or at the front desk in the Winter Garden. 

Kresge Library Reduction in Services Wednesday & Thursday

Due to the University's emergency reduction in operations, the Kresge Library will be closed Wednesday, January, 30, 2019 and Thursday January 31, 2019. 

During this time there will be no course materials pick up or assignment/exam review.  

Reference services will be available via chat and email from 9am-9pm on both Wednesday and Thursday.

More information on the University's emergency reduction in operations  is available from the UM DPSS site.

Kresge Website Services Outage - February 8

Due to a vendor scheduled data center migration, the following services on Kresge Library website will be unavailable from 8pm Friday, February 8 through 8pm, Saturday, February 9:

• Kresge Library Articles, eBooks Search
• Journal Locator 
• Citation Linker
• Kresge Database Search

The Library's A-Z databases will be unaffected.

Change in Access to PitchBook

Due to a recent authentication change, PitchBook must be accessed from the Library's A-Z Database list at https://kresgeguides.bus.umich.edu/az.php?a=p. Users who attempt to access PitchBook directly will see an Access Denied error message.

Kresge Library Remodeling Schedule*Update

 

Questions? Contact us at kresge_library@umich.edu

WRDS Downtime Scheduled for Jan 9th 2019

The WRDS Cloud and associated services will be inaccessible to all users during our regular maintenance window from 8:00 - 11:00 AM EST (GMT -5) on Wednesday, Jan 9th 2019.  Please plan your research accordingly.