“We can’t wait for the world to come to us, we must go to the world.” – Dr. Otto Gonzalez, Director, CIP/NIFA/USDA, Sep. 2016 Celebrate Open Access Week with information on scholarly communication and publishing! Read below to learn about: How registering for an ORCID ID can save you time and distinguish your research. Best … Continued
October 24-30 is Open Access Week Non-profit organizations are an undeniable force for good in our society. They do amazing work, often with very limited funds. Best practices, evidence-based decision-making, good data — the needs of non-profit organizations are similar to many businesses, and access to the latest research can help them deliver the best … Continued
October 24-30 is Open Access Week College textbooks are incredibly expensive, costing US students an average of $1,298 a year!* In fact, textbook prices increased 82% between 2003 and 2013, approximately triple the rate of inflation in overall consumer prices (CPI) during the same time (27%).** What happens when textbooks cost this much? Students take … Continued
October 24-30 is Open Access Week If you’re a researcher, you may have run into this situation before: You need an article and it isn’t available through UT Libraries’ subscriptions, so you wait a couple of days to get a copy through interlibrary loan. But what happens if you aren’t affiliated with a large university? … Continued
SAGE Publishing creates many research tools tailored to the needs of university students and faculty. SAGE Research Methods databases include resources that can help graduate students design their research, including sample case studies that reveal how research methods are chosen and practice datasets to help investigators hone their data analysis skills. Research Methods databases are … Continued
2015 National Book Award finalist Angela Flournoy will read from her work on Monday, October 24, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, as part of the Writers in the Library series. The reading will be in the Hodges Library auditorium at 7 p.m. It is free and open to the public. A National Book Foundation … Continued
The UT Libraries Diversity Committee hosts a series of lunchtime discussions to facilitate comfortable dialogue about diversity and inclusion. Lunch and Learn invites students and other members of the campus community to talk openly but respectfully about complex issues that impact their lives and their campus experience. Intersectionality: From Scholarship to Action Noon – 1 … Continued
The University Libraries will host a “conversation” on the future of research libraries on Monday, October 10. The Libraries’ guests will be the directors of two graduate programs in library and information science, Sandy Yee and Diane Kelly. Dean of Libraries Steve Smith will moderate the event. The campus community is invited to join the … Continued
Log-in to a webinar on Friday, October 7, from 12:25 to 1:55 p.m., to learn about the Libraries’ new databases. Gale Researcher helps students identify and link to relevant, authoritative sources. Introductory essays, peer-reviewed articles, and streamed video are organized by subject areas typical to the undergraduate curriculum. Artemis Primary Sources gives researchers access to … Continued
Novelist Tawnysha Greene and poet Kristi Maxwell will read from their work at the University of Tennessee on Monday, October 3, 2016. The event is part of the university’s Writers in the Library reading series. The public is invited to this free reading at 7 p.m. in the Lindsay Young Auditorium of UT’s John C. … Continued