Periodical World

September 25, 2007

New APA citation style for electronic articles

Filed under: APA citation style, electronic articles, faculty authors — Deborah Malone, MLIS @ 1:12 am

As many of you are aware, APA made a couple of major changes this summer in how electronic articles are to be cited in reference lists. Instead of issuing a new edition of the style manual, they created a PDF download that covered just the changes.

APA style guide for e-resources

The library now has the rights to allow campus-wide access to this update through a password protected link to the document in the library’s catalog. It’s available to all USF students, faculty and staff.

The link to the catalog record is here: APA style guide to electronic references [electronic resource]

Once the record is pulled up, click on the “View or Print: APA style guide to electronic references pdf” and you will be prompted to login with your name and USF ID number. Once this is done, the pdf of the document will be retrieved.

Shortly there will also be a link on the library’s Documenting Sources web page to link people directly to the document.

July 11, 2007

Faculty Authors and retaining rights to publications

Filed under: faculty authors, publication agreement, retaining rights — Deborah Malone, MLIS @ 8:15 pm

For faculty authors who want to know how to create an addendum to your publication agreement in order to retain access and distribution rights.

Want to retain rights over your soon to be published journal article? You can use the SPARC Author Addendum to amend the journal’s publication agreement.

SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) is an international alliance of libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system.

To learn how to use the author addendum and obtain more information on author rights, see the SPARC author web page

These links are also now available on our library’s Faculty Services page: see the heading “Author’s Copyright Addendum”

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