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Sarah Polkinghorne

HathiTrust Error and Feedback Reporting

January 5, 2021 Sarah Polkinghorneuncategorized

A reminder for the new year: HathiTrust is continually looking to improve the quality of its content and services. If errors in metadata or page images are observed, they should be reported using the “Feedback” link at the top of the HathiTrust site so that they can be followed up on […]

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New to the catalogue: Books in the Directory of Open Access Books

December 2, 2020December 2, 2020 Sarah Polkinghorneuncategorized

The monographs cataloguing team recently added thousands of catalogue records from the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) to our catalogue. As usual, the team will also undertake routine maintenance of the DOAB records, adding new ones as they are released and performing deletions if necessary. While we generally do […]

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September collection cancellations and changes newsletter

September 22, 2020September 22, 2020 Sarah Polkinghorneuncategorized

We distributed the fourth in our monthly series of collection newsletters on September 22. In case you haven’t had a chance yet, you can also read it here. Our thanks to all colleagues who helped with the cancellation decisions announced this month.

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New ebooks added to JSTOR: March/April 2020

April 27, 2020May 12, 2020 Sarah Polkinghorneuncategorized

Hi everyone, for your info/interest, please find attached to this post a list of the 1295 new books added to JSTOR in March/April 2020. For an ebook refresher, please join me (Sarah Polkinghorne) for a Spring Training session! I’m offering it twice: May 14 and May 19. As you know, JSTOR provides us newly-published ebooks from […]

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New (to us) Routledge 2017 ebooks

March 27, 2020May 12, 2020 Sarah Polkinghorneuncategorized

Hi all, we now own Routledge ebooks from 2017, nearly 5,000 titles, on the Taylor & Francis platform. Since we’re in a time of budget reductions, I’ll clarify where these books came from. The publisher gave them to us — gratis. They are compensation, negotiated by the CSU team, incorporating evidence […]

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