Celebrate Open Access Week, October 18-22, by participating in daily programs at John C. Hodges Library: http://libguides.utk.edu/openaccessweek/ • Advancing Science Through Open Access: Nobel Prize-winning scientist and Director of the U.S. National Cancer Institute Dr. Harold Varmus and Dr. Cameron Neylon, Senior Scientist at the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council, biochemist, and author of … Continued
Poet, novelist and essayist Marge Piercy will read her poems and chat with the public next week in Knoxville. Piercy will read from her work The Art of Blessing the Day: Poems of Ritual and Remembrance, at Temple Beth El of Knoxville, 3037 Kingston Pike, at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 17. On Monday, Oct. … Continued
UPDATE (Oct. 7): The lecture featuring Jack Prelutsky which had been scheduled for Oct. 6 on the UT Knoxville campus, has been rescheduled for 5 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 11, in West High School Auditorium, 3300 Sutherland Ave. On Saturday, “Jack Prelutsky’s Family Performance” will be held at 2 p.m. at the East Tennessee History … Continued
Students: make a short video to show why open access to research matters to you and win an award! SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, has put out a call for entries to the annual Sparky Awards. Prizes in the national Sparky Awards contest include iPads, iPhones, and iPods. The deadline for entries … Continued
Claudia Emerson, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and the current Poet Laureate of Virginia, will read from her work at Writers in the Library, 7 p.m., Monday, September 27, in UT’s Hodges Library auditorium. The event is free and open to the public. A reception in the Mary E. Greer Room (258 Hodges Library) will follow the … Continued
SelectedWorks is a web-based service offered by Trace, UT’s digital archive of scholarly work, that enables faculty to establish clean, elegantly designed scholarly publication pages. With SelectedWorks, faculty can post and share articles, working papers, presentations, and more. Additionally, having a SelectedWorks page helps faculty to preserve their work while providing open access to their … Continued
Join the UT Libraries and the Baker Center for Public Policy for these events commemorating the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1787: • “Border Crossing: Immigration, States’ Rights and Civil Rights — An interactive Constitution Day Forum, 3:30 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 15, Culture Corner, 1st floor Hodges Library When do immigration laws infringe upon … Continued
A workshop open to all UT faculty, staff, and students: Measuring Research: Understanding Citation Counts and Impact Factors Wednesday, September 15 3:30-4:30 p.m. Hodges Library, Room 211 This workshop will provide an overview of ways to analyze scholarly output, including citation counts, the h-Index, the Eigenfactor, and impact factors. Web of Science and Journal Citation … Continued
UT’s digital archive of scholarly work — “Trace” — has grown to more than 5,300 items since its launch last September. The web-based digital archive contains the full text of creative and scholarly work produced by the UT community. Trace (for Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange) offers a platform for UT faculty and students to … Continued
Writers Andrew Farkas and M.O. Walsh will open the year’s series of authors reading from their works in UT’s John C. Hodges Library. Farkas and Walsh will read from their recently published collections of short stories at 7 p.m., Monday, September 13, in the Hodges Library auditorium. Books will be available for purchase and signing. … Continued
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