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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
[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 […]
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