As you may be aware, one of the primary methods by which CSU acquires ebooks from university presses is with a demand-driven acquisition (DDA) program with JSTOR. This DDA program functions by allowing us to load into our our catalogue the records for the full frontlists of selected publishers, as […]
You may be aware of MIT Press’s Open Access initiative, Direct to Open (D2O). The University of Alberta Library has been supporting D2O through the Canadian Research Knowledge Network since 2022. D2O has already(!) met their 2024 funding goal and all 79 scholarly monographs will be made openly available. The […]
We’ve added a database asset for Black Life in America, a primary source collection covering the period 1704 to 1975. The database provides information of African American history, culture, and daily life, as well as how the media has portrayed people of African descent. Please note that this is not […]
We are cancelling our subscription for 4 Seasons of Reconciliation, and our last day of access will be March 31, 2024. Members of the COPPUL Indigenous Knowledge Standing Committee had expressed concerns regarding the appropriateness of this product in a prairie context. After consulting with these members as well as […]
Hello everyone, For two of our large subscription ebook packages, books are added throughout the year (and their accompanying records are added to the catalogue), but removals happen only twice each year. This is an update on removals that will occur in December 2023 and January 2024. Lists of removed […]