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PDXScholar Reaches 1 Million Downloads

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

February Workshops Cover Zotero and Mendeley, Research Data, and Information Organization

Librarian Michael Bowman is offering his popular workshops again this winter term. Here’s what’s coming up: Managing Resources with Zotero and Mendeley Zotero and Mendeley are web-based and desktop citation and PDF management tools that make it easy to collect, organize and cite research materials. Both are terrific tools for anyone working on a research … Continue reading the article: February Workshops Cover Zotero and Mendeley, Research Data, and Information Organization

Winter 2016 Exhibit Highlights 40th Anniversary of Women’s Studies at PSU

PSU Library Special Collections and University Archives is honored to present its Winter 2016 exhibit, Ever Forward: Forty Years of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Portland State University. The history of WGSS at PSU is a story of the energy and passion of generations of students and faculty dedicated to the foundation, survival, and growth … Continue reading the article: Winter 2016 Exhibit Highlights 40th Anniversary of Women’s Studies at PSU

Introducing the “Traveling Scriptorium”

What does an etched cuneiform tablet have in common with a sixteenth-century printed page? What natural materials were used to make inks and paints during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance? How is parchment made into a writing surface? How has the form of the book changed and stayed the same for almost two thousand years? PSU faculty and students in the … Continue reading the article: Introducing the “Traveling Scriptorium”