News about library resources and services for DePaul University students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends
DePaul University Library’s trial of NewspaperArchive.com is now live and open to all students, faculty and staff. Through this trial, DePaul University Library patrons have access to over 400 years of newspaper records until May 15, 2020. What is it? NewspaperArchive.com is the first commercial newspaper archive online, and its
Greetings and welcome to spring quarter. Although the John T. Richardson Library and the Loop Library buildings will be closed throughout the quarter to ensure the health and safety of the DePaul Community during the COVID-19 pandemic, we will continue to support teaching, learning and scholarship at DePaul University. Library
When DePaul University Library books are in search of a new home, they often find one at Better World Books. Started among college friends and ultimate frisbee teammates at Notre Dame, Better World Books went from an idea formed during “post-graduation blues” to a company that has donated over 26 million books, recycled
New and updated resources have been added and are now available on the A-Z Databases & Resources list. Let us layout some of the highlights: For those of you with a competitive spirit, check out the Sports Market Analytics (SMA) database featuring searchable news and research on everything from sporting
February is Black History Month, and the DePaul University Library is excited to introduce new databases for researching African American history. These three new resources contain a wealth of primary source material that documents African American lives and experience. HistoryMakers Digital Archive These oral histories cover a broad scope of
A re-designed and improved version of the biomedical research resource, PubMed, has just been released by the National Library of Medicine. The “new PubMed” can be accessed at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?otool=ildullib. All the Library’s PubMed access points—including A-Z Databases and Library Research Guides—have been updated with this new link, which is customized
The holiday season is upon us and A Christmas Carol is hard to miss whether it be on TV, put on as a play, or read. Charles Dickens began writing A Christmas Carol, originally titled A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, as a way to
Reading Richard Powers’s The Overstory, I was reminded of George Herbert, the 17th-century metaphysical poet and priest, a “devotional lyricist” known for writing “pattern poems,” in which the lines are so arranged that they become visual, “concrete” representations of the subject of the poem. Powers’s novel offers a grand reworking
DePaul University Library are hosting trials of three resources: Academic Video Online, AM Explorer, and Digital National Security Archive (DNSA). Members of the DePaul community are welcome to trial the resources to evaluate whether these resources will or will not be good additions to the library’s collection. Please fill out
International Open Access Week begins October 21, 2019. What is it? During the last week of October, institutions and individuals use this opportunity to raise awareness of the issues surrounding the difficulties in accessing scholarly literature and resources, and to highlight various open access resources. Does DePaul University have any