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History Preserved
| USF News
Tucked away on the fourth floor of the USF Tampa Library sits a rich repository of historical treasures — a 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablet, the oral testimonies of the Allied service men and women who helped liberate World War II concentration camps, photographic prints of Eadweard Muybridge, a pioneer photographer and the father of the moving image.
Scholar Commons
| USF News
A virtual showcase for USF's research and creative energies is now available online. Launched this past summer, Scholar Commons provides free access to the scholarly output of USF faculty and students.
The program is aimed at disseminating knowledge and growing the legacy of research and scholarship at USF.
To date, only a handful of universities, including MIT, Stanford and Harvard, provide open access publishing. Typically, an institution's research and scholarship are controlled by exclusive for-profit publishing agreements that strictly limit access and use. The new program makes available a wide variety of publication types and formats including peer-reviewed scholarly publications, journals, unique historical collections, teaching tools and ebooks. The material is available to interested readers anywhere in the world free of charge.