This midterm season I thought I could highlight the benefits of sleep, as well as offer some tips to help you get a better night’s sleep. The National Sleep Foundation announced their annual Sleep Awareness Week which will take place from April 23 – 29, 2017, but there is no time like the present to improve … Continue reading Midterms and Sleep Awareness Week
The 2017 Oscars aired on Sunday, February 26th, and this year’s nominations set records for Oscar history, and this year’s winners likewise set records for Oscar history. After listening to the Code Switch podcast Oscars So Black… At Least, In Documentaries, I was interested in researching the changes sparked by the #OscarsSoWhite backlash during last … Continue reading Record Setting 2017 Oscars
The following book reviews were written by student assistants in the Reference & Research Services Department here in the library. We hope they inspire you to pick up a good book! NW, reviewed by Brianna Cockett-Mamiya Zadie Smith’s 2012 novel NW follows the lives of four different characters — Natalie, Leah, Felix, and Nathan — … Continue reading Book Reviews from Students
What is fair use? Fair use is a part of copyright law, and describes how ownership over copyright is limited in order to benefit our society. It’s what allows teachers to use materials in the classroom, artists to remix to create new works, and comedians to parody the news. What is Fair Use Week? Fair … Continue reading Celebrate Fair Use Week!
The Wikipedia #1lib1ref campaign encourages librarians and others to add one citation to Wikipedia, and they have made it really easy. Here is more information on the #1lib1ref campaign https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref A few Gleeson Library folks are going to have a casual gathering Wednesday, 2/1/17 from 12:00-1:00. We will be on the second floor of the Gleeson Library … Continue reading Wikipedia #1lib1ref citation party!
Why does open access matter for students? Don’t our students here at USF have access to everything they need through the amazing Gleeson Library? It’s true! Our USF Libraries does a fantastic job of providing all the resources that students need to do their research here and now. But our mission here at USF is to … Continue reading Open Access and Students
Articles published open access are cited more often than articles that are not. End of Story. Continue reading Why You Need to Publish Open Access
Happy Open Access Week! As part of the University of San Francisco’s open access efforts, we are very excited to announce the summer 2017 launch of the International Journal of Human Rights Education (IJHRE). This journal is an independent double-blind peer-reviewed open-sourced online journal housed at the University of San Francisco in partnership with the … Continue reading International Journal of Human Rights Education (IJHRE)
You’ve heard the hype about Big Data. But how much of that data is available to the public? Private corporations control the access and distribution of data that they collect, and may be unwilling to share it or may charge high prices. The United States Government, however, has made a broad sweeping commitment to providing … Continue reading Open Access to Government Data
Access to high quality information is critical in any field, but in the health sciences it can, quite literally, be a matter of life or death. Early in my career I worked as a library assistant in a hospital library and one of my primary roles was filling interlibrary loan requests. On a regular basis … Continue reading Open Access and the Health Sciences
