Open Access Award Recipients at Murray State University Libraries
And the winners are…
We are pleased to announce the following Murray State faculty members are the 2021 Lana Porter Open Access Initiatives Awardees! University Libraries’ Scholarly Communication Committee will grant each faculty member a stipend to be used for research materials, conferences, travel, or other projects during the current academic year. The award is given in the spirit of encouraging recipients to continue producing scholarship in an open access format.
Congratulations to this year’s awardees, and thank you to all our nominees for your time and effort in applying and for supporting open access research.
Dr. William Mulligan
Professor Emeritus, History
MA & PhD, Clark University
Dr. Mulligan’s research interests include the Irish diaspora, early America, and United States social and industrial history.
Dr. James Humphreys
Professor, History
MA, North Carolina State University
PhD, Mississippi State University
Dr. Humphreys’ research interests include African-American history, early American history, government, modern European history, and southern United States history.
Nomination Summary
Drs. Mulligan and Humphreys collaborated on a project in partnership with University Libraries to digitize the back issues of the Journal of the Jackson Purchase Historical Society. Issues through 2016 are available on Murray State’s institutional repository Digital Commons at https://digitalcommons.murraystate.edu/jphs/, with the most recent years forthcoming.
“Commitment to open public access is consistent with our mission to present to the public information on the history of the Jackson Purchase region in ways that are convenient and inexpensive for them. Since the Society started in 1956, all of our meetings have been free and open to the public. While there is a membership charge, and the journal is sold slightly above cost, we also share information through our website and a Facebook page. On the Facebook page especially, we share information about the activities of other historical and genealogical organizations and current occasional writings about Kentucky history that people in the region might not otherwise find. On the website we have links to digital versions of all histories of the region that are available in digital format. Access to our website and our Facebook page are free and are not limited to members. So open access is really a continuation of what we have been doing since 1956 with the adoption of another new technological vehicle to fulfill our mission.”
– Dr. William Mulligan and Dr. James Humphreys