Reading Time: 2 minutes Authors, who take extra steps after publication by sharing and advertising their work, can help to increase the impact of their publications. One method of increasing a journal article’s audience is to make use of the publisher’s author …Continue Reading
LIB News
Florida Ornithological Society Partnership Takes Flight
Reading Time: 4 minutes Guest post from Andrew Huse, Librarian and Curator for Florida Studies at Special Collections, USF Libraries, Tampa campus. Special Collections personnel went birding at Landmark Cemetery in Ft. Lauderdale with some of Florida’s very best. They could tell …Continue Reading
USF Curiosities: A 40-foot Band-Aid?
Reading Time: 5 minutesJames Rosenquist, It Heals Up: For All Children’s Hospital (2002), USF Collection Mom! Mom, look! A giant Band-Aid! Walking into a hospital can be a scary experience for anyone. But, for a sick child, walking into a hospital seems …Continue Reading
Botanical Resources from USF
Reading Time: 2 minutes Extreme environmental and climate changes have caught the attention of politics and the news, pushing environmental sciences into the spotlight. Like the USF Libraries Florida Environment and Natural History collections, the Atlas of Florida Plants from the Institute …Continue Reading
Zarzuela in honor of World Theater Day
Reading Time: 4 minutesA show at the Cuban Club Theater. Robertson and Fresh Collection of Tampa Photographs. USF Libraries Digital Collections. USF Libraries’ Special Collections is home to many different types of physical items and ephemera. From books and journals to newspapers, …Continue Reading
Citation Management Tools
Reading Time: < 1 minute Guest Post from Maryellen Nash, Interim Director of Library Student Success and Research Platform Teams, Tampa Campus. “Student” by CollegeDegrees360 is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 Citation tools, which you might see referred to as “citation management …Continue Reading
Annual Vote for Public Domain Digitization: Tell us what to digitize for our 2023 celebration of the public domain
Reading Time: < 1 minute Every year in January, a new group of material will have their copyrights expire and become part of the public domain, where creative work is free to use by anyone for any purpose. You can find more …Continue Reading
Millions of Years in the Making: A New Platform for the Karst Information Portal
Reading Time: 3 minutes By: Amanda Boczar, Curator for Digital Collections and Jason Boczar, Digital Scholarship and Publishing Librarian June 6th is the National Day of Caves and Karst, and we’re celebrating with the official launch of the newly redesigned Karst …Continue Reading
#Creekshed – USF Creek Shed Digital Collection
Reading Time: 2 minutes USF Libraries is collaborating with Dr. Thomas Hallock (USF St. Petersburg campus) and Dr. Amanda Hagood (Eckerd College) to archive a series of columns called City Wilds for the newspaper Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. The articles are intended …Continue Reading
Introducing Digital Commons @ USF
Reading Time: 2 minutes We are happy to announce a new, consolidated, Institutional Repository at the USF Libraries! The new repository, Digital Commons at the University of South Florida, highlights the research of USF faculty, students, and staff across our three campuses …Continue Reading