If you are interested in having your students contribute to Wikipedia as part of the activities for your class, you may want to consider working with Wiki Education. Instructors who sign up will have access to support materials to help guide their assignment. If you would like to try running… read more
Archives for January 2020
Space Limitations in UT’s Fluid-preserved Fish Collection
Today we have a guest post about cataloging and access to natural history collections from Adam Cohen, Dean Hendrickson, and Melissa Casarez of the University of Texas’ Biodiversity Center. Specimens are, in many ways, like books written in languages we are still learning. New technologies like DNA analyses, high-resolution CT… read more
Public Domain for 2020
From the U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 8: “The Congress shall have Power…to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.” [emphasis mine] January 1, 2020 marks the date that items published… read more
