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As part of Digital Scholarly Communications (DSC) Week, NUS Libraries would like to highlight Digital Gems, a digital collection of selected rare and unique materials on Southeast Asia covering the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and medicine.

Containing rare books, manuscripts, private collections, journals, newspapers, drawings, pamphlets, photographs, maps, and audio-visual materials from the 17th century to the present, it reflects the diverse and inclusive nature of the collection.

More than 500 titles are made freely available online and many more will be added to the collection over time. Noteworthy content include Edwin Thumboo Private Papers, Chinese Newspapers of Southeast Asia, Chinese in Southeast Asia collection, and books on Singapore’s history, culture, and heritage.

In digitising our rare and unique collections, we endeavour to meet demand for data sources on Southeast Asia, open up new avenues for teaching and research in the humanities, and facilitate the growth in digital humanities research projects.

Dig into these gems to discover the significant and valuable open resources you can access readily anytime, anywhere.

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Open Access (OA) is a publishing model that makes research information available to readers at no cost, as opposed to the traditional subscription model in which scholarly information is accessible by paying a subscription. One of the most important advantages of open access is that it increases the visibility and reuse of academic research results.

Publishing as Gold OA requires authors to pay Article Processing Charges (APC). We are delighted to announce two initiatives to support NUS researchers in publishing OA.

Institutionally Paid OA for NUS Authors

NUS Libraries, School of Computing, and the Office of the Deputy President (Research & Technology) have worked together to enter into a 5-year open access agreement with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). For all submissions to ACM made between Jan 1, 2021 and Dec 31, 2025, NUS corresponding authors can publish OA at no cost to the author.

Library-Supported Free-to-Publish Model

NUS Libraries is now a supporting institution of the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) from Sep 2020 to Sep 2021. The OLH is an academic publishing platform that supports 22 fully OA academic journals from across the humanities disciplines. Unlike many OA publishers, the OLH does not charge any author fees. Instead, an international library consortium covers its operational costs.

Check out more waivers and discounts from other publishers such as Cambridge University Press and American Chemical Society.

Contact Scholarly Communication to find out more about open access publishing!

*Based on NUS Libraries’ internal analysis of compiled Web of Science data.