Category: Open Access

Delivering Equitable Access to America’s Research

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 Recently the White House announced that all federally funded research will be made openly available, by 2026. Importantly, it eliminates the 12-month embargo. This is the result of decades of work by the library community’s push for equity through open access. For …Continue Reading

Celebrating the Public Domain in 2022

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This post by Copyright Librarian LeEtta Schmidt reports on newly-created public domain digitized material in the USF Libraries’ collections.  Check out the story if you’d like to see which 22 titles were selected by votes from the USF user community that were …Continue Reading

Announcing Unpaywall

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The USF Libraries are pleased to announce the deployment of the Unpaywall (https://unpaywall.org/) application. Unpaywall is an open database of over 28 million scholarly articles available to you by selecting the “Full Text Open Access” link that will appear in qualifying records in the …Continue Reading

Open is Not Forever: A Study of Vanished Open Access Journals

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Many reputable journals are costly and behind paywalls because, unlike some poor quality open access journals, one is paying for copy editing, indexing, and preservation. When you publish with a quality journal, you have a reasonable expectation that your article will be …Continue Reading

Celebrating the Public Domain: 19 in 2019

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In June of 2018 the library posted a list of items just coming into the public domain that can be digitized by the USF Tampa Library. We asked our community to vote for what they most would like to see digitized. The list of newly digitized items from the project is available through this post in Digital Directions. We would like to continue this on an annual basis. Here is a list of possible titles for our 2020 digitization and we would like your help narrowing it down. Vote for your favorites here:

https://usf.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0pLGWRNAG86Vpdz.

 

Cabell’s Blacklist is Here

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There currently exists a black market economy of publishing scams, typically referred to as “predatory journals.” These are journals designed to look like genuine scholarly sources, but they publish whatever an author submits in return for payment of an article processing charge (APC). The purpose of a predatory journal blacklist is to identify and call attention to such scam operations so that unsuspecting authors are not fooled into publishing in these journals. Cabell’s has been a well regarded journal directory and now offers a blacklist which the USF Libraries has purchased. It is a welcome development for scholars. Criteria for inclusion on this list are clearly set out and publicly available. Blacklist ratings are given at the journal level with indicators about violations of Cabell’s criteria. This resource should help USF Scholars in avoiding predatory, questionable, or low-quality journals.