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Enhancing the Graduate Students’ Experience Learn about the Libraries' Resources, Services, and Spaces Available for Graduate Students

February 16, 2023 by Caylin Schmenk | Resources

The Leatherby Libraries is committed to serving Chapman University students enrolled in the 66 graduate degrees and programs that the University offers. We provide a full range of services and resources carefully curated for graduate-level education and research. The Leatherby Libraries offer customized resources, subject specialist librarians, one-on-one consultations, and extended borrowing and space reservation

Connect to Knowledge: Health Poll Database Reap the Rewards with these Resources

January 24, 2023 by Kristin Laughtin-Dunker | Resources

The Leatherby Libraries is pleased to offer access to the Health Poll Database from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University. This comprehensive database for health-related U.S. survey questions covers over eighty years of national polling from 1935 to the present day. Searchable questions and results, demographic crosstabs, and trends are available

The Leatherby Libraries now has access to the Wall Street Journal Website

January 12, 2023 by Kristin Laughtin-Dunker | Resources

The Leatherby Libraries is pleased to now offer access to the Wall Street Journal website for students, faculty, and staff at Chapman University. This new subscription offers access to the past four years of Wall Street Journal web content and allows users to access the site from anywhere after registration. To gain access, Chapman users

Faculty and Staff now have access to the New York Times

January 11, 2023 by Kristin Laughtin-Dunker | Resources

The Leatherby Libraries is pleased to offer faculty and staff access to the New York Times website. The Student Government Association has provided access to the New York Times for students for several years, so with this new addition, we are finally able to offer access to all users at Chapman University. To gain access,

Connect to Knowledge: Water Rights and Resources Reap the Rewards with these Resources

November 4, 2022 by Caylin Schmenk | Resources

The Leatherby Libraries has gained perpetual access to a new collection from HeinOnline: Water Rights & Resources. It can be accessed either through the hyperlink or via our default link to HeinOnline (provided by the Law Library). This database contains “Congressional documents, books, Supreme Court briefs, and legislative histories on major legislation at the state

Connect to Knowledge: OAPEN Library Reap the Rewards with these Resources

October 20, 2022 by Kristin Laughtin-Dunker | Resources

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

Connect to Knowledge: Constellate Text and Data Mining Tool Reap the Rewards with these Resources

October 17, 2022 by Kristin Laughtin-Dunker | Resources

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

Connect to Knowledge: LGBTQ+ Rights Reap the Rewards with these Resources

September 23, 2022 by Caylin Schmenk | Resources

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

Connect to Knowledge: Digital National Security Archive Reap the Rewards with these Resources

September 2, 2022 by Library Reference Desk | Resources

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

Connect to Knowledge: Bloomsbury Food Library Reap the Rewards with these Resources

August 2, 2022 by Kristin Laughtin-Dunker | Resources

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