Post written by Jason Boczar During the last full week of October each year, members of the research community come together for Open Access Week. Open Access Week is a time to look at the future and, in order to maintain its …Continue Reading
Category: Open Education Resources
Launching EcoLiteracies for Climate Action in Florida–A Teaching and Learning Portal
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
Delivering Equitable Access to America’s Research
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
Announcing Unpaywall
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
Openly Accessible v. Open Access or “public spaces not public property”
This is a guest post from USF Copyright Librarian, LeEtta Schmidt. Imagine that you are walking down the sidewalk in a suburban neighborhood. All around you are houses with big picture windows, gardens, bird baths, dogs, cars, and picket fences. You wouldn’t …Continue Reading
Teacher Resources for Talking about Race, Racism and Black Lives Matter
Education Week has posted some very helpful teacher resources in their article, “15 Classroom Resources for Discussing Racism, Policing, and Protest.” Some of these include a PBS lesson plan about the death of George Floyd, the Anti-Defamation League short lesson on Floyd’s …Continue Reading
Digital Learning Objects & Tools to Enhance Online Instruction
USF Librarians have been curating a guide to high quality digital learning objects suitable for inclusion in online courses. This is very much a work in progress and content is being added daily. Along with podcasts, open educational video sites, open texts, …Continue Reading
