The Leatherby Libraries is participating in a pilot project to make open-access, peer-reviewed ebooks easier to find and use by adding nearly 20,000 ebooks from the OAPEN Library to the library catalog! Students, faculty, and staff may find these books by searching for “Open Access eBooks from OAPEN library” as a keyword in the library
The Leatherby Libraries is pleased to offer a new subscription to a text and data mining tool called Constellate. In addition to our recent subscription to TDM Studio, this is the second text and data mining tool acquired to support research, learning, and teaching at Chapman University. Constellate was created by the non-profit ITHAKA to support
The Leatherby Libraries is pleased to announce access to a new database called LGBTQ+ Rights from HeinOnline that is part of the Social Justice Suite. This database “charts the gay rights movement in America, showing the civil rights codified into law in the 20th and 21st centuries as well as the inequalities that still exist
The Leatherby Libraries is pleased to offer access to many new primary source collections through our subscription to the Digital National Security Archive. This database contains more than 140,000 important, declassified U.S. government documents, providing vital primary source material to advance research relating to 20th and 21st-century history, politics, and international relations. The digitized documents
The Leatherby Libraries is pleased to offer a new subscription to Bloomsbury Food Library. This database brings together many resources related to food science and includes: Encyclopedias and reference works; Over 100 e-books; Image collections from the Culinary Arts Museum at Johnson & Wales University, The National Archives of the UK, and the Metropolitan Museum
The Leatherby Libraries is pleased to offer access to Bloomsbury BFI Classics. This database contains 160 ebooks from the British Film Institute. This collection from the Film Classics series introduces, interprets, and celebrates landmarks of world cinema from the silent era to the 21st century. Each title includes an argument for the film’s ‘classic’ status,
The Leatherby Libraries is pleased to offer access to U.S. Declassified Documents Online. This database includes previously classified federal records from every presidential library and many executive agencies spanning the 20th and 21st centuries. It includes intelligence studies, policy papers, diplomatic correspondence, cabinet meeting minutes, briefing materials, and domestic surveillance and military reports. It covers
The Leatherby Libraries is now offering access to Drama Online: National Theatre Library Collections 1 and 2.* This database contains videos and images of contemporary plays from National Theatre Live Broadcasts. The first collection includes 30 filmed performances, including A Streetcar Named Desire with Gillian Anderson, Frankenstein with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller, multiple
The Leatherby Libraries is pleased to expand its AccessMedicine subscription to include access to Case Files Collection. This new collection includes over 1,150 real-life cases to assist students during coursework, clinical rotations, or preparation for the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE). The cases have three main categories: Basic Science Cases, Clinical Medicine Cases, and
The Leatherby Libraries is pleased to offer access to MIT Press Direct eBooks. MIT Press Direct is a new, collective action open access business model for scholarly books. According to MIT Press, ” Direct to Open harnesses collective action to support open access to excellent scholarship.” This new program gives the Chapman University community access