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Fair Use Week 2024: Fair use for educators
Understanding fair use is a very daunting task for most of us– and for good reason. When it comes to fair use, there are no clear answers. The doctrine is intentionally open and flexible, and without ...
Database Discovery: Mapping demographic data with PolicyMap
Do you need to find demographic or statistical data for a research paper or thesis project? If you are searching for data about population, ethnicity, income, housing, education, marital status, and...
Celebrate Love Data Week 2024
Join the ASU Library Research Support Team and the Knowledge Enterprise Research Data Management Office as we celebrate all types of data during Love Data Week 2024 from Feb. 12 to the 16th. Have y...
Perks of open access publishing
The standard process of academic publishing is pretty predictable: the researcher develops their idea and conducts a study, submits their article to their dream journal, gets rejected, makes edits and...
Uncle Sam wants you! How you can help the federal government with science
When you hear the word 'scientist,' a particular image comes to mind: an individual donning a white lab coat surrounded by tubes, beakers, and Petri dishes. Perhaps someone with a background of years ...
Open science and research ethics
Recently, a collection of reproduced documents from the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment became available as a digital collection through the National Library of Medicine. The USPHS Untreated Syphilis Stu...
Open Access Week 2023 next steps
For our Open Access Week 2023 series, we have covered a lot of ground on the benefits and challenges, context and opportunities around open research and scholarship. In the first post, we shared the d...
How can researchers engage in open access and open science?
Mary Lou Fulton Teacher's College journals logo As we near the end of this year’s Open Access Week, we are delighted to feature a guest post from our partners at the Mary Lou...
A ‘diamond’ in the rough: no cost open access
Publishing is a challenge. Especially when you get to the point of determining where to publish. First, you have to review little things like the journal’s name, website, and publishing schedule. Simp...