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Portland State University Library is pleased to announce the addition of more than 1,200 journals to the Library’s collections. The new journals, published by Elsevier, are available now to PSU students, faculty, and staff through ScienceDirect (Elsevier’s database platform) as well as through searching the Library catalog. The new package includes journals in science, technology, engineering, … Continue reading the article: Library Adds 1,200 New Journals →

Adult coloring books are all the rage right now, and libraries and museums are joining the fun! Inspired and organized by The New York Academy of Medicine Library and the Biodiversity Heritage Library, libraries around the country are sharing images from our collections this week for our users to color by hand. Each day this … Continue reading the article: Color Our Collections, February 1-5 →

PDXScholar, Portland State University’s online, digital repository, has achieved a remarkable milestone: 1 million downloads. This means that users throughout Oregon, the United States, and around the world have, collectively, downloaded a million articles, dissertations, masters theses, conference papers, books, data sets, oral histories, projects, and more from PDXScholar. This readership map provides an overview of … Continue reading the article: PDXScholar Reaches 1 Million Downloads →

Portland State University Library will be closed on Monday, January 18, 2016, in honor of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. Building hours are the same otherwise. See our complete schedule on the Library website. … Continue reading the article: Library Closed Monday, January 18 for MLK Day →

Portland State University Library will be closed from Saturday, December 19, 2015 through Saturday, January 2, 2016. We will re-open on Sunday, January 3 at Noon. During the closure, we will not process Summit and Interlibrary Loan borrowing requests. You may submit these requests during the closure, and we will begin processing accumulated requests on … Continue reading the article: Library Closed Dec 19 – Jan 2 →

The Library will be open 24 hours from Monday, November 30 at 7:30 a.m. until Thursday, December 10 at midnight. Late Night Entry Only PSU students, faculty, and staff may be in the Library overnight. After midnight, when the doors are locked, enter by scanning your white PSU ID Card (shown here) at the card … Continue reading the article: Extended Hours for Dead Week & Finals Week →