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Sarah Polkinghorne

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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ICOLC maintaining spreadsheet of vendor offers

March 27, 2020May 12, 2020 Sarah Polkinghorneuncategorized

Earlier in March, the International Coalition of Library Consortia, known as ICOLC, created a spreadsheet where libraries and consortia are collaboratively tracking COVID-19-inspired offers from vendors. You might be interested to take a look — it’s massive: https://bit.ly/ICOLCeas Because we are receiving so many offers, CSU has developed a position to […]

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Update from CSU, March 25, 2020

March 25, 2020April 17, 2020 Sarah Polkinghorneuncategorized

[This is the same message as was distributed on UALIB-L on March 25] Hello everyone, On behalf of CSU, I hope everyone is keeping as well as possible under the circumstances. There have been lots of collection-related questions and changes in the past couple of weeks. We want to thank […]

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APA Manual 6th and 7th editions now free to borrow on VitalSource

March 17, 2020April 17, 2020 Sarah Polkinghorneuncategorized

The American Psychological Association has made the current (7th) and previous (6th) editions of its Publication Manual freely available online on VitalSource.After creating a VitalSource account, students and staff can “borrow” the Manual until the end of April. VitalSource is best accessed starting here: https://bookshelf.vitalsource.com

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New books added to JSTOR: February 2020

February 28, 2020May 12, 2020 Sarah Polkinghorneuncategorized

Hi everyone, attached to this post, for your info, please find a list of the approximately 520 new books added to JSTOR in February 2020.  As you know, JSTOR provides us newly-published ebooks from many university presses from around the world. Nearly every week, JSTOR adds new books to their platform, with […]

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