New Zeutschel Book Scanner Comes to DSI
May 6, 2025
The Digital Scholarship and Initiatives (DSI) department at University Libraries is excited to announce the acquisition of a brand new professional pl...
Accessing Technology Protected Copyrighted Content Under the DMCA
Feb 25, 2025
Consider the following hypothetical:A faculty member in the Department of Art wants to screen a documentary video on the history of the Impressionist ...
Year in Review for App State’s Open Journal Program
Dec 20, 2024
2024 has been a busy and productive year for App State’s Open Journal Program.We’ve added a new journal with a long history, migrated a journal fr...
Digitizing the University Libraries Student Artwork Contest
Nov 26, 2024
Digitizing the University Libraries Student Artwork ContestLast year, University Libraries organized an artwork contest which highlighted the artistic...
Copyright and Artificial Intelligence: Is your academic research at risk?
Aug 14, 2024
AI companies are quietly courting tech companies and publishers to obtain access to treasure troves of copyrighted content—including faculty-publish...
SPARC Open Access Webinar Series
Jul 19, 2024
This summer, refresh your understanding of Open Access by attending Sparc's Open Access Webinar Series.We'll gather in Room 421 in the Belk Library on...
Getting Ready for Figshare, Appalachian’s Fabulous Forthcoming Institutional Repository
May 31, 2024
Beginning in June, as we gear up to modernize App’s institutional repository, there will a momentary pause on ingesting new content. For the time be...
Copyright and Free Expression
Feb 29, 2024
Parody is one example of how copyright law’s fair use doctrine protects free expression. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a parody ...
The CASE Act and the Copyright Claims Board (CCB): A Brief Review
Dec 1, 2023
In 2020, Congress passed a law called the “Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2020, known as the “CASE Act.” T...
Check out JIHHS, Volume 3: "Aging Well"
Oct 30, 2023
Digital Scholarship and Initiatives is thrilled to announce the PubPub debut of The Journal of the Blue Cross NC Institute for Health and Human S...