Did you know that you can browse books online with a feature in our catalog? Let’s say you wanted to look for more books like Descartes and the Last Scholastics by Roger Ariew. If you pull up the full record of the …Continue Reading
Category: Tips and Tricks
10 Things to Do When Getting a Publishing Contract
Guest post by by LeEtta Schmidt, Copyright and Intellectual Property Librarian, and Jason Boczar, Digital Scholarship and Publishing Librarian Read it thoroughly. This includes any click through agreement that might be part of a journal manuscript submission system. Talk with your co-authors. …Continue Reading
Subject Guides and Course Guides to Help Students with Research
Many faculty know about USF Libraries’ Subject and Course Guides, but did you know you can play an active role in helping our liaison librarians develop new guides or enhance existing ones? Perhaps you are teaching a special topic where you feel …Continue Reading
Library Guide–Systematic Reviews for Social Sciences
This library guide to the systematic review process discusses key characteristics of systematic reviews, other types of reviews, librarian involvement in systematic reviews, the role of gray literature, and more. For those who want to learn more about systematic reviews, the library …Continue Reading
Plagiarism and ChatGPT
This article is all about how students are using AI ChatGPT to answer essay questions on tests as well as write essays for their courses. ChatGPT is very sophisticated technology that generates new answers on the fly to questions. Each time students …Continue Reading
Featured USF Resource–Academic Writer
Academic Writer is a web-based application providing interactive tools to help students and faculty learn and apply APA Style®. It features point-of-need quick guides and video tutorials. All of the content from the APA Publication Manual is included in Academic Writer . The …Continue Reading
Websites use URLs to Track You
This article by Brook Cagle, from Popular Science gives you some tips on how to stop being tracked when you visit Websites. The article describes how tracking URLs work and how to stop them in Firefox, which has a tracking URL blocker …Continue Reading
Course Guides that Curate Class Resources
Along with subject guides to help students get started with research in their academic disciplines, librarians also can assist faculty by creating course-specific guides that curate the most relevant library resources for that particular course. These guides can offer starting points for …Continue Reading
Understanding Our E-book Collections
E-books for academic libraries come in a variety of platforms and formats, and that variety can be very confusing. For some publishers, there are restrictions on downloading and printing. For many of those publishers, users can download the entire book, but after …Continue Reading