CSU and FSA release four major reports on collection expenditures: Collections Expenditures by Vendor, Subscription Expenditures, Large One Time Collections Expenditures, and One-time Payments for Books, by Vendor. These reports now include data for the most recent fiscal year (April 1, 2020-March 31, 2021). They can be accessed on Dataverse: […]
Phase 1 of the Global Press Archive Alliance initiative, funded by libraries like ours, is going strong. Here’s an update on current and future Open Access newspaper collections that will be released through the GPA: Imperial Russian Newspapers: The Alliance’s fourth open-access collection spans the eighteenth through early twentieth centuries […]
I hope you’ve had a chance to learn about the new agreements opening up research articles by University of Alberta authors in most SAGE journals, PLOS Biology, and PLOS Medicine. If not, please read about them here. There’s also been more good news emerging from the work of the Canadian […]
Those who follow developments in citation styles with keen interest will already know that the Modern Languages Association (MLA) has just released the 9th edition of its Handbook. In CSU we’re working on acquiring multiple print copies. These copies will be distributed the same way copies of the 8th are […]
The CSU team will offer a Spring Training session in June 2021. (The same session will be offered on two different dates.) We’ll be providing updates and responding to your questions. You are warmly invited to send us your questions, or to suggest topics on which you’d like an update. […]