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Fair Use: Can I Upload this PDF?

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Posted on Feb. 22, 2025, 2 p.m.

Fair use is determined by a number of things, and there is no singular right answer to the question.

Collection Spotlight: Diverse Data on Diversity

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Posted on Feb. 18, 2025, 9 a.m.

There are many sources for data on Diversity.

National Entrepreneurship Week 2025

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Posted on Feb. 17, 2025, 3 p.m.

February 17 – 21, 2025 marks National Entrepreneurship Week to celebrate innovation and entrepreneurship.

SCRC’s 2025 Media Preservation Shipment

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Posted on Feb. 14, 2025, 9 a.m.

The SCRC team consists of multiple functional specialists who collaborate to choose and carefully package selected media assets for our ongoing preservation and digitization efforts.

Collection Spotlight: College Student Voices in Access World News

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Posted on Feb. 11, 2025, 2 p.m.

Discover the student conversations at colleges and universities around the country and the world with Access World News.

Collection Spotlight: Finding Diverse Voices in NoveList Plus

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Posted on Feb. 4, 2025, 10 a.m.

NoveList Plus is an EBSCO-provided database designed for discovering book titles and authors recommended by librarians and other experts on staff.

SU Press, A Global Ambassador

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Posted on Feb. 3, 2025, noon

Syracuse University Press is a global ambassador for the university.

Research at SCRC by the Numbers, 2024 Edition

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Posted on Jan. 31, 2025, 9 a.m.

Get an up-close view of the research work that went on in SCRC in 2024.

Black History Month 2025

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Posted on Jan. 30, 2025, noon

Resources and display provided by the Libraries in honor of Black History Month.

American Landscape into Art Display

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Posted on Jan. 30, 2025, 10 a.m.

Access & Resource Sharing of Bird Library presents a new display titled American Landscape into Art.

Collection Spotlight: Diversifying the Social Work Syllabus

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Posted on Jan. 28, 2025, 9 a.m.

Amplifying BIPOC Voices: A Resource for Integrating BIPOC Scholars in Social Work Research.

Winter 2024 Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Posted on Jan. 27, 2025, 11 a.m.

The records for the Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) submitted by the Graduate School for Winter 2024 have been processed and loaded into SURFACE.

Supporting Student Media Literacy

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Posted on Jan. 23, 2025, 4 p.m.

Where are students turning for news and important information, and how can the Libraries help evaluate sources for accuracy?

SCRC Fall 2024 Events Galore!

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Posted on Jan. 22, 2025, 11 a.m.

SCRC had a fall full of programs and events that centered smart speakers in conversation with archives and special collections as material sites of discovery and creative-critical inquiry.

Collection Spotlight: Indigenous Voices through GIS

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Posted on Jan. 21, 2025, 9 a.m.

Finding Indigenous voices using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Maps.

Collection Spotlight: Finding Companies Owned by Underrepresented Business Owners

Mergent Intellect’s Advanced Search Company Criteria.

Posted on Jan. 14, 2025, 1 p.m.

Use company databases to create lists of firms owned by underrepresented business owners.

New e-Resources July - December 2024

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Posted on Jan. 6, 2025, 9 a.m.

New e-resources in the Libraries' collection from Fall 2024.

URP 100: Information Literacy and Research Strategies

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Posted on Jan. 2, 2025, 2 p.m.

A new 1 credit course for Spring 2025.

Innovation Committee

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Posted on Jan. 2, 2025, 9 a.m.

In 2022, Advisory Board member Larry Bousquet generously gifted the library the ability to support staff projects, thus the Staff Innovation Fund was established.

Collection Spotlight: Creating VOSviewer Visualizations in Dimensions

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Posted on Dec. 18, 2024, 9 a.m.

VOSviewer, a software-based tool for converting bibliometric data into visualizations, is available within the Dimensions database to create visualizations from publication, funder and organization data.

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