Are you an undergraduate student at Portland State? The Library wants to hear from you. How do you use the Library’s spaces and services? What’s working great? What could be better? Over the next several months, we are inviting you to join us for a series of conversations to discuss these very topics. Our first … Continue reading the article: Undergrads: Eat Pizza and Chat with Librarians!→
Many Portland State faculty publish their research in open access publications. Here are some of those articles and other publications from the past year. Barrios, Y. V. , Gelaye, B., Zhong, Q., Nicolaidis, C., Rondon, M.B., et al. (2015). Association of childhood physical and sexual abuse with intimate partner violence, poor general health and depressive symptoms … Continue reading the article: Open Access Publications by PSU Faculty→
International Open Access Week is October 19-25. Portland State University Library joins this global event to celebrate, promote, and discuss open access, the movement to make scholarly content readily and freely available to the public. During the week, we’re taking the opportunity to highlight library services, resources, and promote webcasts and events on open access … Continue reading the article: Share and Manage Your Research Data→
Portland State University Library Special Collections & University Archives announces a new oral history project focusing on the Portland Black United Front. Portland State University public history students conducted the interviews in this oral history project in 2010. In winter 2015, with Professor Patricia Schechter, a second cohort of students reviewed the recordings and transcripts … Continue reading the article: Black United Front Oral History & Digital Exhibit→
International Open Access Week is October 19-25. Portland State University Library joins this global event to celebrate, promote, and discuss open access, the movement to make scholarly content readily and freely available to the public. During the week, we’re taking the opportunity to highlight library services, resources, and promote webcasts and events on open access … Continue reading the article: What Is Creative Commons?→
The following piece was written by Peter Suber, Director of the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication. It is re-printed in full here. This work is licensed under a Creations Commons Attribution license. Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. What makes it possible is the internet and … Continue reading the article: A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access→
International Open Access Week is October 19-25. Portland State University Library joins this global event to celebrate, promote, and discuss open access, the movement to make scholarly content readily and freely available to the public. During the week, we’re taking the opportunity to highlight library services, resources, and promote webcasts and events on open access … Continue reading the article: Open Access Week Events and Webcasts→
The Library lobby and checkout area opened onto Broadway, and a large study hall also filled the first floor. It was a popular place to study and the collection was heavily used; the 1,000,000th patron, student Phil Rothrock, was celebrated in 1962. The entire library catalog of books, periodicals, films, records, tapes, and fiche, was meticulously … Continue reading the article: University Archives Presents: The Portland State Library in 1963→
By Suzanne Pardington, University Communications October 14, 2015 Two books borrowed from the Portland State Library in 1963 were returned this month with an anonymous handwritten note saying it’s time for them to “go back home.” Librarian Joan Petit doesn’t know who had the books — records don’t go back that far — or why … Continue reading the article: Books Returned to PSU Library After 52 Years→