Category: Tips and Tricks

Impact and Visibility Services at USF Libraries

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At USF Libraries, we offer impact and visibility services for USF Faculty. Liaison librarians are available for consultations to assist you with increasing your scholarly impact. From creating author profiles to selecting journals, we offer services to help analyze metrics that can …Continue Reading

Alerting Services for Databases and Journals

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The library has a guide to alerting services that allows you as a researcher to receive alerts from your favorite journals when they have a new table of contents or for searches  you have conducted in your preferred databases by saving your …Continue Reading

10 Things to Do When Getting a Publishing Contract

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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

Library Guide–Systematic Reviews for Social Sciences

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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

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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

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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

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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