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Extended Hours for Dead Week & Finals Week

November 24, 2015 News

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 →

Introducing the “Traveling Scriptorium”

November 19, 2015 News, Special Collections and University Archives

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 →

Meet Don Carlo, Vet and Editor of Original Vanport Student Newspaper

November 10, 2015 News, Special Collections and University Archives

Before Portland State was a university or college, it was the Vanport Extension Center (VEC), founded in 1946 to serve veterans returning from World War II and wanting to take advantage of the G.I. Bill. The first classes were offered in the city of Vanport, Oregon (now the site of Delta Park and the Portland … Continue reading →

Library Closed 11/11 for Veterans Day

November 9, 2015 News

Portland State University Library will be closed this Wednesday, November 11 for the Veterans Day holiday. Library Schedule … Continue reading →

Undergrads: Eat Pizza and Chat with Librarians!

October 27, 2015 Events, News

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 →

Open Access Publications by PSU Faculty

October 22, 2015 News

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 →

Share and Manage Your Research Data

October 21, 2015 News

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 →

Black United Front Oral History & Digital Exhibit

October 20, 2015 News, Special Collections and University Archives

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 →

What Is Creative Commons?

October 20, 2015 News

A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access

October 19, 2015 News

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 →

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