Every year the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law School highlights items that would have entered the public domain prior to the 1976 Copyright Act. Click here for a full listing, more information, and to see prior years.
Pendergrass Library’s staff wishes everyone a happy holiday season. We look forward to working with you in 2015!
Don’t get bored over the winter break–borrow some leisure reading books from the Pendergrass Library’s Leisure Reading collection. Several new books have arrived recently, so come check them out. And if you don’t see what you’re looking for, request it!
Some faculty, students, and staff received the following email during the last few days: Dear User, Your library account has expired, therefore you must reactivate it immediately or it will be closed automatically. If you intend to use this service in the future, you must take action at once! To reactivate your account, simply visit … Continued
Stop by the Pendergrass Library during finals to de-stress for success! Activities include coloring, cartoons, and free healthy snacks for the entire week of finals. Check out other activities going on across campus to help you de-stress. Text version of de-stress activities (Microsoft Word) Print the poster, below (PDF)
ImpactStory has created a list of 30 effective steps for researchers to ensure their hard work makes a difference in their field and with the public. They are sharing one step a day on the Impactstory blog during the month of November and encourage followers of the blog to give each one a try. Impactstory … Continued
The Office of Multicultural Student Life is joining the tutoring community available at Pendergrass Library. This free service offers tutoring to those students enrolled in any section of the following courses: Animal Sciences 220 Biology 150 Biology 160 Chemistry 120 Chemistry 130 The tutoring service is open to all students and no appointments are required. … Continued
PeerJ has announced that from now until November 30th 2014 they publish your article for free. If you are a Faculty member, you can already receive a PeerJ membership using our prepaid PeerJ fund, but this opportunity allows everyone else to have the opportunity to use PeerJ’s innovative publishing platform. (Two of PeerJ’s most notable innovations … Continued
Has Open Access (OA) Week made you excited to learn more about the power of open principles? The Mozilla foundation (the non-profit responsible for the open-source Firefox browser) has launched a news site The Open Standard. The Open Standard provides online news coverage of open, transparent, and collaborative systems at work in technology and our daily … Continued
Over his fifty-year career as an anthropologist, University of Tennessee Professor Emeritus William M. Bass excavated ancient skeletons and recovered the remains of murder victims. He also headed UT’s anthropology department for more than 20 years and trained many of the nation’s current leading forensic anthropologists. The University of Tennessee Libraries, which holds the research … Continued