Reading Time: < 1 minute Fair Use week, from February 25 to March 1 in 2019, is a community celebration of fair use coordinated by the Association of Research Libraries. Each day teachers, students, researchers and consumers benefit from copyrighted information because of the fair use exception …Continue Reading
Category: Across the Academy
Columbus Day and/or Indigenous Peoples Day?
Reading Time: < 1 minute On October 8th, the Global Citizens Project Student Association screened the film Columbus Day Legacy at the Marshall Center. The film explores the tensions between the Native Americans and Italian Americans in Denver, Colorado, concerning the celebration of Columbus Day. This controversy …Continue Reading
The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls
Reading Time: 2 minutes A few decades ago, a chance discovery by a wandering Bedouin brought the Dead Sea Scrolls out of the caves near Khirbet Qumran on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea and eventually to the Shrine of the Book at the Israel …Continue Reading
Openly Accessible v. Open Access v. Free to Use
Reading Time: < 1 minute Many of the materials released to or shared on the internet today are openly accessible due to the very nature of the internet itself. This does not mean that they are free from copyright protection or released with any open use provisions. …Continue Reading
Hidden Florence
Reading Time: 2 minutes Ah, Firenze! Located in the Tuscan region of Italy, this ancient city was a center of trade, finance, and culture in medieval times. Home to the Medici family, whose power and control over the region began in the mid-15th century, Florence is …Continue Reading
Introduction to Copyright Tutorial Video
Reading Time: < 1 minute Are you starting on a research project where you know you are going to include some material created by someone else? Or including copyright content in your thesis or dissertation? The library has a new tutorial video that gives an introduction to …Continue Reading
What Jane Saw
Reading Time: 2 minutes As more collections are digitized or born-digital and as new tools are developed for collecting, processing, analyzing, and disseminating scholars’ work, we have a multitude of opportunities to experience scholarship in new ways. Each month, “Across the Academy” will, in the hopes …Continue Reading