Wikipedia:Visiting Scholars/Participating institutions/San Francisco State University
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About San Francisco State University
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San Francisco State University (SFSU) is a public comprehensive university in the California State University system. It was founded in 1899 as a normal school and today has an enrollment of more than 30,000 students across six academic colleges.
About the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability
[edit]Historian and activist Paul K. Longmore founded the Institute on Disability in 1996. When he passed away in 2010, the university created an endowment for the Institute and renamed it in his honor. It undertakes projects that work to challenge prevailing notions and stereotypes of disability by showcasing disabled people's strength, ingenuity, and originality. Its public education and cultural events connect the Bay Area's vibrant disability communities and the general public with faculty and students at SF State to fight disability stigma with disability culture.
Overview of library resources
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The J. Paul Leonard Library provides access to:
- More than 50,000 electronic journals
- 196 databases, including Academic Search Complete, Anthropology Plus, Communication & Mass Media Complete, ERIC, Family & Society Studies Worldwide, Huamnities Full Text, JSTOR, LexisNexis Academic, Opposing Viewpoints in Context, PhilPapers, PsycARTICLES, PsycEXTRA, PsycINFO, SAGE Journals Online, ScienceDirect, SpringerLink, and Wiley Online Library.
- 168,000 ebooks
- Digitized special collections and other resources among other resources.
Current Visiting Scholars
[edit]Jackiekoerner
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Jackiekoerner (talk · contribs) was a Visiting Scholar at San Francisco State University for 2016-17, working with the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability to improve Wikipedia's coverage of disability-related topics.
- Highlights
- Created or substantially improved articles on the 504 sit-in, disability in the United States, and the Superfest International Disability Film Festival, which appeared as a Did You Know on the Main Page in February 2017.
- Media
- Longmore Institute Seeking Disability Studies Wikipedian - Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability blog (29 September 2016)
- SFSU opening access to library resources for Wikipedian interested in disability studies - Wiki Education blog (29 September 2016)
- Jackie Koerner: Wikipedia Visiting Scholar at SFSU - Wiki Education blog (2 December 2016)
- Drunk History covers disability rights subject after it’s added to Wikipedia by Visiting Scholar - Wiki Education blog. (21 February 2018)
- Why this Wikipedian believes in sharing knowledge freely - Wiki Education blog. (8 June 2018)
- Visiting Scholar improves Wikipedia’s coverage of disability-related topic - Wiki Education blog. (22 June 2018)
Position announcements
[edit]San Francisco State University is not currently accepting applications. Please see Wikipedia:Visiting Scholars/Apply for other options.