Open Access is online access to scholarly research free of charge and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. In other words Open Access is scholarly research without borders With Open Access more people can interact with the scholarship of others, more people can build upon that scholarship, more people can benefit from the research … Continue reading Gleeson Library Celebrates Open Access Week 2016
Friday September 30th is the feast day of St. Jerome. Why, you wonder, should you care? Who was he? Jerome, who was born around 347 and died in 420, was a priest, scholar, historian, and translator. And he is the patron saint of librarians and libraries. We’ve blogged about him in the past on his … Continue reading Who was St. Jerome?
Looking for some reading recs? The Reference & Research Services student assistants have a few for you! We Should All Be Feminists, reviewed by Malia Okoh Ngozi Adichie’s We Should All Be Feminists is a slim volume containing an essay based on her 2013 TED Talk. The essay exposes Adichie’s experiences with racism growing up in Nigeria and … Continue reading Student Book Reviews
Just a plea, to resist the branding ™ of nature, including the mysterious Fog of San Francisco. @KarlTheFog (Twitter account) is fun, in a trivial way, but a wholly inept (and in-apt) branding of our city’s fog. But if you insist, or can’t resist, may I suggest, as more apt (or ept): “Carl” the Fog. The fog comes … Continue reading “Carl” the Fog
Update: The California State Legislature has amended AB2880, removing all copyright-related provisions from its text. We will keep you updated if anything changes. Thank you all for your efforts in making this happen! Every summer, my parents would pack up the car and we would take the long drive from Orange County to Yosemite. We spent a full … Continue reading Public records should be public.
William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes died 400 years ago on 23 April. Earth Day is 22 April. In the spirit of conservation and commemoration, Gleeson Library celebrated the days with one glorious mashup. We joined the Earth Day Celebration on Thursday 21 April in Gleeson Plaza. And we’re asking people to put their own spin … Continue reading Bill and Miguel’s Excellent Earth Day
We are very excited to announce that USF Scholarship Repository, USF’s institutional repository that digitally collects, preserves and provides electronic access to scholarly works and research output by the University of San Francisco community, has passed 500,000 total downloads! This means since its launch in fall 2011, users around the world have collectively downloaded half … Continue reading USF Scholarship Repository Achieves Half-million Downloads Milestone
Department libraries complement the Gleeson Library collection by offering specially curated resources for shorter circulation periods or in multiple copies. Recent visits to the in-house libraries at the Department of English and the Center for Teaching Excellence highlighted how Gleeson librarians can work with departments to share knowledge in both directions. Program assistants who maintain … Continue reading Strengthening Connections with Department Libraries at USF
This week (November 13-21st) is International Education Week at USF, and across the United States. IEW is a national celebration of education exchange. International Education Week encourages American students to consider studying abroad and welcomes international students who are studying abroad here. The week reminds us that we are a global community that learns from the meaningful connections … Continue reading International Education Week 2015
“Posting on Academia.edu is not ethically and politically equivalent to making research available using an institutional open access repository…” Gary Hall — Professor of Media and Performing Arts in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, and Director of the Centre for Disruptive Media, at Coventry University, UK. — makes this provocative comment in his fascinating blog post “Does Academia.edu Mean … Continue reading Academia.edu and the Ethics of Open Access
