The Leatherby Libraries is pleased to now offer access to Digital Theatre+, a database that contains hundreds of video recordings of theatre, audio, and poetry productions. It also includes interviews, lectures, documentaries, teaching materials, and written resources on all aspects of theatre. Please contact the Chair of Resources & Scholarly Communications, Kristin Laughtin-Dunker, at laughtin@chapman.edu
The Leatherby Libraries is pleased to announce the continuation of its read-and-publish agreement with Wiley from 2024-2026. This agreement allows Chapman-affiliated authors to publish their articles Open Access (OA) in many Wiley journals by covering the Article Processing Charges (APCs) for Chapman authors’ research articles that Wiley journals have accepted for publication. New Procedures Chapman University authors
The Leatherby Libraries is pleased to announce that Chapman University has joined a three-year read-and-publish agreement with Elsevier. This agreement allows Chapman-affiliated authors to publish their articles Open Access in Elsevier’s journals. This read-and-publish agreement covers the Article Processing Charges (APCs) (i.e., Open Access publication fees) for Chapman authors with accepted research articles in applicable Elsevier journals
The Leatherby Libraries is delighted to offer two open-access repositories, Chapman Figshare and Chapman University Digital Commons, to support Chapman scholars and researchers in sharing and preserving their research outputs. Both platforms are essential tools for ensuring that research is freely and openly accessible. However, they cater to distinct aspects of the research lifecycle due to
The Leatherby Libraries is pleased to offer access to the Lived Places Publishing collection of short ebooks. Each title is around 150 pages long and explores the intersection of identity and place, focusing on topics such as gender, disability, LGBT+, queer, and ethnic studies, in addition to education and more. For more information, please contact Chair of
April is a busy month for Intellectual Property Rights awareness, with two global celebrations occurring annually – World Book and Copyright Day, which is celebrated on April 23rd, and World Intellectual Property Day, which is celebrated on April 26th. World Book and Copyright Day was founded in 1995 by UNESCO, and its date, April 23rd,
The Leatherby Libraries has added two new primary source collections from Gale to our collection of digital databases. Decolonization: Politics and Independence in Former Colonial and Commonwealth Territories includes primary source perspectives from over 70 previously colonized countries, including those colonized by the British, French, and Portuguese in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Australasia, and the Americas.
The Library Research & Data Services team was delighted to launch Chapman Figshare as part of the Love Data Week celebrations. Chapman Figshare is a new open-access data repository where members of the Chapman Community can publish and access data. We congratulate our Library Research and Data Services (LRDS) team for a successful Love Data Week that
The Leatherby Libraries is pleased to offer access to Exploring Race in Society Database from EBSCO. This database contains full-text articles about race-related issues from academic journals, primary source documents, government agency reports, speeches, and essays written and reviewed by writers in academia, journalism, medicine, and other disciplines. Topics include: Affirmative Action Black Lives Matter Movement
The Leatherby Libraries will be hosting an exclusive Virtual Reality Showcase for Rinker Faculty on Friday, February 23, 2024, for Rinker Campus Faculty at Building 9401, Room 180 at the Rinker Campus. Take a first look at the Meta Quest Pro VR Headsets during these hands-on workshops hosted by our Health Sciences Librarians. There will