The USF Libraries celebrates its seventh year digitizing material from our collections in order to celebrate the public domain and Public Domain Day! U.S. Copyright Law protects works of original authorship for a limited period of time. At the end of this protection, those works fall …Continue Reading
Category: Digital Collections
Introduction to Archives Research in Special Collections
The Special Collections department at USF’s Tampa campus contains books, maps, and artifacts, but much of its holdings are comprised of archival material. This brief informational digital exhibit provides viewers with an introduction to archives and some helpful information about utilizing the …Continue Reading
Fair Use Week 2024
Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week is February 26th-March 1st. This post by our amazing Copyright and Intellectual Property Librarian, LeEtta Schmidt, talks about collections like Google Books or HathiTrust in relation to fair use. Fair Use Infographic. Designed by YIPPA and commissioned by …Continue Reading
The African American Experience in Florida
An initiative of USF Libraries’ Special Collections, The African American Experience in Florida (AAE), is an online portal containing materials and archives from Black communities, individuals, and businesses. The portal aims to help students, educators, researchers, and the public learn about Black …Continue Reading
Picasso at USF
This post from the Digital Dialogs, blog a blog hosted by Special Collections, outlines plans for a Picasso sculpture that never came to be. The sculpture was originally planned to be erected in the 1970’s by sculptor Carl Nesjar. The Digital Dialogs …Continue Reading
Sage Skills Student Success Database
The USF Libraries has recently acquired access to the Sage Student Success database. This resources helps provide students with practical and personal skills they need to do well in higher education and in their future careers. Topics covered through multimedia and interactive …Continue Reading
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning Resources
June is LGBTQ Pride month and in honor of the celebration of pride, we feature here The USF Libraries research guide that helps scholars focus on LGBTQ resources. It also has a link to the Tampa Library Special Collections materials related to …Continue Reading
Library of Congress Launches a New Web Archive Collection
A new web archive collection from the Library of Congress documents the civil unrest sparked by the police murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020. The Protests Against Racism Web Archive contains a selection of websites documenting protests against racism and …Continue Reading
Celebrating the Public Domain through Digitization
Join the USF Libraries in our annual celebration of the public domain through digitization! The public domain consists of material for which copyright protection has expired, was forfeit, or does not apply. The vast majority of materials in the public domain are …Continue Reading
Featured Resource–Psychiatry Online
Psychiatry Online is an amazing digital collection of materials that includes books, journals news, and more from the American Psychiatric Association. Particularly helpful to those interested in educational psychology is the DSM Library, featuring the 5th edition of the DSM-5-TR, the DSM-5 …Continue Reading