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
The 2021 academic year was filled with exciting and stressful events. We remained nimble in delivering library services to the campus community amidst the fluctuating pandemic environment, while also pursuing scholarly activities. Let’s take a moment to recognize and congratulate our Gleeson Library faculty and staff colleagues on their impressive scholarly work from 2021. To … Continue reading The 2021 Gleeson Library Scholarship Roundup
While pivoting our services to a remote-first model in response to COVID-19, and continuing to support students and faculty in creative ways, Gleeson Library faculty and staff also published articles, presented papers and posters, and delivered keynote addresses. Let’s take a moment to recognize and congratulate our colleagues on their inspiring scholarly work from 2020. … Continue reading The 2020 Gleeson Library Scholarship Roundup
You’ve worked in some great libraries, and have accomplished some really great things at these different places. Tell us a little bit about your background — library-related or not — and projects you are proud of or were excited to be a part of. I am Ngāti Paoa Māori and grew up in Tāmaki Makaurau, … Continue reading Welcome Nicky Andrews – Instruction and First-Year Experience Librarian
As we welcome in the new year and reflect on all that was accomplished in 2019, we would like to highlight the amazing scholarly activities from Gleeson Library faculty and staff and share them with the USF community. The 2019 Gleeson Library Scholarship Roundup includes conference presentations, articles, posters, and other creative endeavors produced by … Continue reading The 2019 Gleeson Library Scholarship Roundup
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
This past fall, University of San Francisco celebrated the Black Student Union’s 50th anniversary! At Gleeson Library, we have a multitude of resources highlighting events/ documents that took place during the early years of BSU. Our online scholarship repository provides digitized archival materials that provide access to these unique events. We are able to look … Continue reading Black Student Union’s 50th Anniversary
If you’ve ever felt that this citation-centric view of the scholarly world does not fully capture the value of your work—trust that feeling Continue reading Altmetrics and PlumX: More Ways to Measure Your Scholarly Work
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
“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
