You are invited to attend the annual Books Save Lives Award Reception celebrating Janice Lynn Mather, author of Learning to Breathe. The event will be Thursday, February 4th at 2 PM. It will be hosted virtually through Microsoft Teams. RSVP Ginny Puckett …Continue Reading
The EdLib Report
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
Alerting Services for Databases and Journals
Alerting services, also known as current awareness services, are web delivery notifications you can use to keep up-to-date on the latest articles, journals, books, or even links to articles that are citing you. The USF Libraries has set up a guide to …Continue Reading
Teaching Students about Plagiarism
The USF Libraries has content for faculty and their students about avoiding plagiarism. If you wish to embed that content into your course, here are some of the resources available to you. First there is a content page on avoiding plagiarism here: …Continue Reading
Library Hours–Tampa Campus Spring 2021
Library hours during Spring 2021 will be slightly more than those in the Fall of 2020. They are 8 AM to 9 PM on week days Monday-Thursday, 8 AM-5PM on Fridays, closed on Saturdays, and open 1 PM-9PM on Sundays. Click here …Continue Reading
Author’s Approved Manuscript (AAM) and Increasing the Impact of Your Research
Guest Post from LeEtta Schmidt, Copyright Librarian and Intellectual Property Librarian at USF Tampa Library. Publishers have traditionally taken on the bulk of the work in promoting the books and journals that they manage. Even with this publisher support, an individual author …Continue Reading
USF Libraries Revisioning Collection Management
As part of the University’s strategic budget reduction process, the USF Libraries – Tampa campus is tasked with reducing recurring spending by $2,033,500, or 15.3 percent of the E&G base budget. To meet the requirements of the reduction, it was necessary to …Continue Reading
Library Numbers and USF ID Cards
The USF ID card is important for all new students to acquire whether they come to campus or not, because it has an important number on it which is a patron’s “library empowerment” number. It is a 14 digit number starting with …Continue Reading