About the Journal

Journal History

The Penn State Libraries' Magazine (PSULM) ceased publication as of 2024 and published its first and final issue in April of 2024. The journal will continue to be hosted by the Penn State Libraries Open Access and the full content will remain searchable and open to all readers.

The PSUL Magazine's mission was to represent the PSU Libraries and feature student work across all Penn State campuses. This magazine was intended to be released semesterly as a digital publication and include student stories, essays, research, and news selected by the Libraries’ Editorial Board. Each publication would be a theme that every element of the magazine would follow. The object of the PSULM was to spotlight students’ creative work, promote Library news, and connect the Penn State student body with their Libraries and each other.

Copyright and Open Access Policy

The copyright for all content published in the PSUL Magazine are retained by the authors, and except for the Fiction section, all content is simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). This license allows others to copy and redistribute the work so long as they provide reasonable attribution and do not use the work for a commercial purpose. This license applies to the submitted version of the work (preprint), the accepted version of the work (postprint), and the final published version.  

Ideal attribution for a work published in this journal consists of the work’s title, the title of the journal, the name(s) of the author(s), the DOI (digital object identifier), and a link to the CC BY-NC 4.0 license deed. The journal encourages those relying on the CC BY-NC 4.0 license to consult the Best Practices for Attribution on the Creative Commons wiki.   

As they retain copyright, authors are entitled to distribute any version of the article and to grant other licenses to use the work, subject to the CC BY-NC 4.0 license. The journal encourages authors to include the ideal attribution described above when they distribute their works after acceptance by the journal.   

Authors are encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and after publication, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (see SPARC's "Open Access" article). 

Content published in the Fiction section of the journal is available free to read, but is subject to copyright. Copyright for these materials is held by their authors, and any permissions for use must be requested from the author directly.