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Database Discovery: LGBTQ+ Source enhances inclusive research for LGBTQ+ studies
Looking for information about LGBTQ+ topics, including history, sociology, psychology, and gender studies? Do you need to learn about the history of LGBTQ+ movements, events and people? LGBTQ+ Progress Pride Flag by Daniel Quasar courtesy Wikimedia C...
Share, Use, Remix: Sites to Find Open Creative Commons Licensed Content
The seven CC licenses and their terms. CC0 1.0 This week, we’re celebrating Open Education Week and the continued exploration of open resources, practices, and tools! If you’re looking for media to spice up your work a...
Open Education Week 2024 and OERizona
March 4th to March 8th is Open Education Week, a global celebration of the open education (OE) movement and open educational resources (OER). What is OER? Simply put, instructors design open educational resources to be used free of charge for teaching and learning. OER content is growing quickly, ...
Fair Use Week 2024: Understanding the Classroom Use exemption and the TEACH Act
The Technology, Education, and Copyright Harmonization Act (TEACH Act) was signed into law in November 2002 and expanded instructors' ability to use works that are protected by copyright without first obtaining permission from the copyright owner. The TEACH Act updated copyright law so that instruct...
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 it, every time anyone wanted to use even a portion of copyrighted material...
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 many more topics, PolicyMap is the library database for you. Here are five things to know about P...
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 you ever felt your data doesn't get the love it deserves? Have you found data you thought was worth b...
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 incorporates feedback to their article, and sends it to the next journal until someone says yes– an...
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 of schooling and lab hours. But what if I told you that you can be a scientist, regardless of educat...