Reading Time: 8 minutes Beginning in 2021 Dr. Ann Hodgson, scientist, ornithologist, and affiliated faculty at USF sat down with a number of Audubon employees, researchers, and volunteers to discuss their efforts within and beyond the organization to support environmental conservation and restoration in Florida. As …Continue Reading
Category: Latest Dialogs
Dr. John Ogden Caribbean and Coral Reef Collection
Reading Time: 4 minutes Guest post from John Clarke, Coordinator for Florida Environmental and Natural History collections at Special Collections, USF Libraries, Tampa campus highlights the Dr. John Ogden Caribbean and Coral Reef collection as an important collection of marine science research materials.
Open Refine: A Beginners Guide
Reading Time: 4 minutes Guest post from Jason Boczar, Digital Scholarship and Publishing Librarian, USF Libraries, Tampa campus. Well-formed data is a luxury. When working with large datasets, researchers must engage in clean-up that includes fixing spelling mistakes or creating consistent numbering patterns. Without these changes, …Continue Reading
Annual Vote to Digitize for the Public Domain
Reading Time: < 1 minute Help us choose the material that will be digitized for January 2024 as part of the Libraries’ annual celebration of the public domain! We have searched our physical collections to find the rarest titles whose copyright will expire in 2024, and now we need your help to figure out which 24 to digitize. Please vote for your favorites below (choose up to 24)!
Launching EcoLiteracies for Climate Action in Florida: A Teaching and Learning Portal
Reading Time: 2 minutes USF Libraries is excited to share that a new Open Educational Resource (OER) is launching in Spring 2023! The EcoLiteracies for Climate Action in Florida (ELCAF) portal is part of a larger collaborative effort between faculty in the USF Libraries, the College …Continue Reading
Celebrating the Public Domain through digitization
Reading Time: 3 minutes Join the USF Libraries in our annual celebration of the public domain through digitization! The USF Libraries have selected material from the Libraries’ collections published in 1927 that are newly in the public domain to digitize in celebration. This is the fifth year we have celebrated through digitization!
Crowd Sourced Archival Collections in Libraries
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Library of Congress has addressed the challenge of keyword searching manuscript texts by opening its archives to citizen historians and asking for help to make their online collections more accessible by transcribing materials and providing transcription reviews through their program, called By the People!
Green OA and self-archiving: Using your Author’s Approved Manuscript (AAM) to increase the impact of your research
Reading Time: 2 minutes Authors, who take extra steps after publication by sharing and advertising their work, can help to increase the impact of their publications. One method of increasing a journal article’s audience is to make use of the publisher’s author rights or author posting policies by contributing an Author’s Approved Manuscript (AAM) to an institutional repository.