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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 →

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 →