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Thursday, March 3 & Friday, March 4 The Library is conducting usability testing on our website. We are looking for PSU students to help us with testing. In exchange for 30 minutes of your time, we will give you a $10 gift card to Starbucks. What is usability testing? Usability refers to how well our … Continue reading the article: Students: Help the Library for a Starbucks Gift Card! →

Analyze Your Research Strategy, a tutorial available on the Portland State University Library website, has been reviewed by and accepted into the American Library Association (ALA) Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Instruction Section’s Peer-Reviewed Instructional Materials Online (PRIMO) project and added to the PRIMO database. According to the PRIMO Committee, “PRIMO … promotes … Continue reading the article: Library Tutorial Added to Peer-Reviewed Database →

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 →