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Sarah Polkinghorne

Overview of Textbook Initiative: Now Available

September 9, 2021September 9, 2021 Sarah Polkinghorneuncategorized

We’ve added a brief summary of the Textbook Initiative to the Course Materials & Reading List Service page. Please have a read, and refer others to this info as needed.

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Collection cancellations & changes (August 2021)

August 25, 2021August 25, 2021 Sarah Polkinghorneuncategorized

On August 25 we circulated our latest newsletter to UALIB-L. We encourage everyone to read it. It’s also available at this link.

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Commonwealth iLibrary ebook records temporarily unavailable

August 11, 2021August 11, 2021 Sarah Polkinghorneuncategorized

All of our URLs for Commonwealth iLibrary ebooks (660 titles) are currently (temporarily) dead, as they are undergoing maintenance. We expect them to be working again by the end of September. Commonwealth Secretariat staff are working with PKP/OMP to migrate the Commonwealth iLibrary to a new Open Access platform. For […]

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Collection expenditure reports, FY21

July 16, 2021July 16, 2021 Sarah Polkinghorneuncategorized

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: […]

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New Global Press Archive OA Collections

June 16, 2021 Sarah Polkinghorneuncategorized

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 […]

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