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Western Kentucky University Launches State’s First Institutional Repository

TopSCHOLAR™ is the first institutional repository in Kentucky. It offers indexing and searching using bepress (Berkeley Electronic Publishing) technology available through ProQuest/CSA’s Digital Commons platform and is made possible by support from WKU Libraries and Provost’s Initiatives for Excellence.

“We are very excited to offer TopSCHOLAR™ to our faculty, staff and students here at WKU. It presents a wonderful opportunity to showcase the talent of our University worldwide and serves as an outstanding example of ways in which WKU is striving to become a leading American university with International reach,” says Mike Binder, Dean of WKU Libraries.

For more information please contact Connie Foster, TopSCHOLARâ„¢ Project Director at 270-745-6151 or by email at connie.foster@wku.edu.

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Winners of the Kentucky Literary Awards

“The submissions for the 5th annual Kentucky Literary Awards were quite good, particularly in the non-fiction category,” said Jonathan Jeffrey, chairman of the selection committee. “I applaud our judges for work well done; the quality of all the honored works is outstanding.”

For more information about the Kentucky Literary Award guidelines, see www.sokybookfest.org.

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