News about library resources and services for DePaul University students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends
For the past five years, Sr. Helen Prejean has included DePaul University on her packed speaking engagement calendar, with activities ranging from small meals shared with students to in-class discussions to auditorium style lectures and panels. For those of you who have heard Sr. Helen speak or brought her into
This year, we celebrate International Open Access Week (October 24 – 30, 2016) and its 2016 theme, “Open in Action,” through a number of projects, programs, and investments “in the open.” Working with our faculty colleagues, the DePaul University Library will continue to highlight and support initiatives designed to promote the “free,
Research methods are a key element of the curriculum in many departments at DePaul. In response, the library has acquired SAGE Research Methods which provides a wide array of electronic materials to support faculty who are teaching research methods. Sage Reference Methods contains over one thousand eBooks, selected journal content,
Interested in identifying a journal to publish in? Curious about which articles are having a large impact in your field? The Library now has access to new tools to help you answer these questions. . Thomson’s improved Journal Citation Reports provides journal-level citation statistics and Essential Science Indicators provides key
In response to the DePaul faculty members and students who have expressed appreciation for the accessibility and functionality of e-books, the Library has been steadily building its collection of books available in this format. While e-books are creating new opportunities for accessing and engaging with content, the lack of uniformity
Media formats are always changing. As new technologies develop, older ones are used less often and eventually become obsolete. So it is that the VHS format is starting to go the way of the 8-track and cassette tape. DePaul’s service contracts no longer include support for VHS/DVD combination players so
Many researchers are familiar with the data sets available through the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research. An international consortium of over 700 academic institutions and research centers, the ICPSR provides curation, storage and access to over a half million data sets and associated files. The consortium also provides
The Library has completed major updates to our A-Z Databases and Resources list and our Library Research Guides. The changes provide more functionality and more flexibility in the way we provide access to library information. Specifically, our A-Z Databases and Resources List now allows for: Searching for a database by
Last month, the Pew Research Center released its most recent report on the place of the public library in American society. Libraries at the Crossroads documents a critical moment in the history of an enduring social institution, as public libraries continue to support traditional services such as literacy programs for
Over the last few years, the Library has been experimenting with licensing streaming videos. While we’ve received a lot of interest in streaming content, we’ve run into a number of obstacles in terms of unsustainable costs for this content and also restrictions around who could access the films we licensed.