Did you know that the e-journals you access through FSU Libraries are unavailable to most students and researchers in the developing world? What about people here in the US? Did you know that most members of the general public also don't have access? The internet has revolutionized the way that we share and access information,... Continue Reading →
Digital Scholarship Training!
Digital Scholarship is an area of growth in here in the Libraries. We’ve been flirting with the topic for a while now, and are finally getting around to launching our support infrastructure campus-wide. One decision we made early on was that we needed some hands-on training in a variety of areas. Our gracious dean, Julia... Continue Reading →
Funding agencies establish public access plans
Many faculty and grad students at FSU will soon be required to make journal articles and data sets derived from funding openly accessible as a condition of continued or future funding.
Open Access Week 2014
Open access is the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research. It has direct and widespread implications for academia and society as a whole. Open Access Week, October 20-26, is a global event now entering its eighth year, an opportunity for the academic and research community to learn about the benefits of... Continue Reading →
What is a Census Research Data Center and Why Should You Care?
This semester, FSU became the newest consortial member of Atlanta’s Census Research Data Center. Funded primarily by the College of Social Sciences and the Office of Research, the Florida State community can now use Census micro-data without paying lab fees, which can range upwards of $15,000 per project. There are currently 18 Census Research Data Centers in the... Continue Reading →
What is the Internet Slowdown?
Wednesday, September 10, 2014 is the Internet Slowdown, a protest in support of "net neutrality". Currently internet service providers (ISPs) are not required to provide the same internet delivery speeds to all traffic. In theory they can decide to speed up or slow down data from individual websites. The fear of the supporters of net neutrality... Continue Reading →
Building Data Sets with FSU’s Digital Library
Data science is all the rage lately. Harvard Business Review even named it the sexiest job of the 21st century. Even though the term is rapidly gaining mind share, many are still confused about what data science actually is. When you cut through the hype, the core of data science is actually pretty simple: it's... Continue Reading →
What is Digital Scholarship?
The number one question I get when talking about digital scholarship, is what exactly that means. How is digital scholarship any different than regular (analog?) scholarship? Does one have to be a technophile in order to consider what they do to qualify as digital work? These sentiments are being echoed around higher education, so its... Continue Reading →
Federal Funders Open Access Policies
The Department of Energy has become the first federal funding agency to release a public access policy under last year's Office of Science and Technology Policy Directive. Broadly speaking, the newly announced policy will make published research resulting from DOE funds available to the public on the Web. This policy follows a similar, and long-standing policy... Continue Reading →
