The Instruction and Outreach department brainstorms a series of research skills workshops for students. Continue reading The Building Blocks of Research Series: Demystifying the Process
This year’s theme for International Open Access Week (October 24th-30th) is “Open for Climate Justice.” Continue reading Why Open Access Matters for Students
Interested in making your research open access? Learn how to use Sherpa Romeo to determine the copyright status of your scholarly articles. Continue reading Make Your Research Open Access: Using Sherpa Romeo
Gleeson’s Scholarship Repository collects, preserves, and provides access to the scholarly output of the University of San Francisco. Here are the top ten downloaded articles of all time: The repository provides an excellent means for students, staff, and faculty to increase access to their research by the USF and global community. Don’t forget to submit … Continue reading Top 10 Downloaded Articles from the Scholarship Repository
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
This is a guest post by Reference and Research Services student assistant Ariana Varela. The definition of public history is fluid and debated between the various types of public historians. One form of public history is archival work where documents and other types of media are collected, preserved, and cataloged in order to facilitate research. … Continue reading Public Historian by way of Archives and Reference
Suppose you have to write a paper for school and you’re ready to start doing your research. The obvious place to start is Google, right? But here’s a question for you: When you use a search engine like Google, Yahoo, or Bing, are you searching the entire web? If not, then, are you at least searching … Continue reading The Hidden Web
Need help with Research and Writing? Attend the Research Paper Clinic for International Students Join us at this drop-in clinic on writing research papers, especially for international students. Librarians and faculty from the Rhetoric and Language Department will be on hand to help you. Research assistance includes: Determining and narrowing your research topic; finding books, journal articles, websites etc.; using library databases; and evaluating the credibility of your sources. Writing assistance includes: … Continue reading Research Paper Clinic for International Students
The ERIC database has temporarily disabled PDF downloads on ERIC documents for security reasons. They are hoping to enable the downloads again soon, but no specific timeline has been given. Access to journal articles is unaffected. In the meantime, the Library does have copies of all ERIC “ED” documents on microfiche. To locate an “ED” … Continue reading Accessing ERIC Documents
Need help finding topics for your paper? Looking for primary source information for your research? Want up-to-date government information? Just “follow” the new Twitter account dedicated to providing links to Federal documents and information (including an app or two). @usfgovinfo Continue reading New Library Twitter: usfgovinfo
