Do you care about Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data? Do you want to learn from colleagues and collaborators, be inspired, and help make the fundamental right to research a reality? For these and many more reasons, you should follow updates from OpenCon 2015! OpenCon 2015 is the student and early career academic … Continued
One Saturday each spring the UT Libraries holds a forum for students who are considering careers in science, technology, engineering, or math. Our Big Orange STEM Symposium gives middle school, high school, and freshmen university students a chance to meet current students and researchers in STEM fields, and to learn about unique resources available to … Continued
Special Collections continually seeks new areas on which to focus acquisitions. We look for topics with regional significance that have potential for broad impact. One such area is the ancient art of moonshining. Bootlegging has long been the subject of storytelling in the hills of the Appalachian Mountains. The illegal distillation of spirits was a … Continued
The University of Tennessee’s two-year subscription for iThenticate plagiarism detection software expired on March 29, 2015, and your account associated with this trial subscription was deactivated. If you or your department wishes to use plagiarism detection software to assist with your publishing, you have several options to choose from. If you are interested in continuing … Continued
The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) has long focused on the best ways to get food from the farm to our tables. The National Agricultural Library (NAL) documents USDA’s interest in local foods in its newest online exhibit, “Mailboxes, Mom and Pop Stands, and Markets: Local Foods Then and Now.” The exhibit has three main … Continued
Anytime you create something – a song, a piece of art, a research paper – you hold the copyright to that work. This means creators have control over the permissions granted to others to access, edit, and share a work. If authors want to give people the right to share, use, and build upon a … Continued
Good news for summer readers! You can check out some of the newest books from our Leisure Reading collection at Pendergrass Library’s temporary summer location in Brehm Animal Science Room 243. Popular fiction, fantasy, suspense, romance, and nonfiction books are available. Visit our Relocation Frequently Asked Questions to download a complete list of the books … Continued
There’s nothing like the serendipity of browsing the stacks and discovering that one book that is the perfect reference on your topic. But now that the Pendergrass collection is inaccessible for summer, how can you browse the stacks? This is where “virtual browsing” in the Libraries’ online catalog comes in! If the search box on … Continued
Pendergrass Library is closing May 8 due to construction. Pendergrass services will be available in Brehm Animal Science Room 243 (Computer Lab), as well as virtually through chat and email from May 11 to the end of construction. View our maps of how to get to Brehm and where to find the computer lab. What … Continued
We live in an age when knowledge is power. New technologies give us unprecedented access to information. They also facilitate surveillance, with the power to collect and mine personal information. People enjoy the convenience of having information at their fingertips. But most people don’t realize the trade off. For example, citizens turn a blind eye … Continued