Cancelling SSRN Subscription

The Social Sciences Research Network is an open access preprint repository, but the institutional subscriptions offered through Elsevier allow for registered users to ‘subscribe’ to individual open access or fee-based journals with content hosted on the platform. The UofA Library has been supporting an institutional subscription to SSRN since 2017. The latest usage […]

CRL Purchase Proposal Program Results

From CRL: The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is pleased to announce the results of the 2021 Purchase Proposal Program ballot. This year, CRL members voted to acquire four new collections representing a broad range of research interests across the membership.  Through the Purchase Proposal Program, CRL member libraries nominate significant collections […]

New ProQuest Databases

Access has been enabled for several new collections from ProQuest and Alexander Street. Please note that these are not new purchases, but rather additions related to a multi-year agreement with ProQuest that provides access to all primary source and archive collections on these platforms. New to the Digital National Security Archive: Donald […]