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Read more… Drake University COVID-19 Response Hours Monday, Apr. 27th Library: closed COVID-19 Hiatus Café: closed COVID-19 Hiatus After-Hours: no COVID-19 Hiatus Tuesday, Apr. 28th Library: closed COVID-19 Hiatus Café: closed COVID-19 Hiatus After-Hours: no COVID-19 Hiatus more Classes, Events & Meetings Cowles News & Notes How to find newspapers on Nexis Uni (formerly Lexis-Nexis) Bruce Gilbert Newspapers from your hometown or specific regions can be hard to find. Cowles Library provides “Nexis Uni” which has thousands of newspapers from around the county and the world. It isn’t always easy to “drill down” to one particular title, so we’ve provided the following short video. Call for Volunteers: Archive Your Story Hope Grebner Bibens We are currently living through a historic moment. Historians of the future will want to know what our experiences were like. In the spirit of documenting this time, Drake University Archives & Special Collections is asking you to keep a journal of your experience during the COVID-19 epidemic. Feel free to type, write by hand, [...] Read More... Kanopy Access Changes Andrew Welch Effective February 1, 2020, Cowles Library will begin mediating requests for streaming films on the Kanopy platform, and priority will be given to films requested for course use. This is a change from the more direct click-and-play access model the library has used since adopting Kanopy in fall 2017. The model will continue to allow click-and-play [...] Read More... Drake Librarian Selected as SPARC Open Education Leadership Fellow Teri Koch Drake Librarian Selected as SPARC Open Education Leadership Fellow Teri Koch, Collection Development Coordinator & Professor of Librarianship at Cowles Library, has been selected as a fellow in the SPARC Open Education Leadership Program , a two-semester intensive professional development program to build a comprehensive understanding of the open education space coupled with practical know-how to lead successful open education [...] Read More... Wall Street Journal – Now Available at Drake Bruce Gilbert The Wall Street Journal is now available to all students, staff, and faculty at Drake University! Once you’ve signed up, you can access it directly from their web page, and once you’ve logged in, you can access it from anywhere. Signing up is easy! First, make sure you’re logged in to Drake web email or to my.drake.edu . Then use this link: [...] Read More... Library Liaison meeting – Apr 2019 Bruce Gilbert Below are some of the links (plus agenda and slides) from the April 11th, 2019 Library Liaison meeting. Main takeaways 1) Please contact bruce.gilbert@drake.edu or teri.koch@drake.edu if you’re interested in exploring “textbook alternatives” for one or more of your classes. See below for more details. 2) Journal Watchlist: The journals that are not highlighted will be canceled [...] Read More... Issues in Scholarly Communication: Is Elsevier’s “Big Deal” a good deal for Drake? Teri Koch By Rod Henshaw, Teri Koch and Laura Krossner. This is the first of several postings that will address the significant developments within scholarly publishing and communication. Our purpose with these blog posts is threefold: 1) identity the major recent developments; 2) examine how do these relate to our collections and services, and 3) identify emerging [...] Read More... Expanded Elsevier content available! Bruce Gilbert Drake University’s Cowles Library is pleased to announce that we now provide access to the majority of content on Elsesvier’s ScienceDirect platform. This includes journals, as well as books. Elsevier offers high-quality, peer-reviewed and highly-cited content in the life sciences, physical sciences, health sciences, and social sciences. Access here: https://library.drake.edu/find/article-databases/goto/sciencedirect/ To make sure you see content [...] Read More... APA Style Central Teri Koch Writing a term paper or even getting ready to submit for publication? APA Style Central assists all levels of researchers (undergraduates, graduates, faculty, and beyond) in the research and writing process. It offers many tools to help facilitate the writing and research process in compliance with the APA style. Tools include: quick e-guides substantive video tutorials self-quizzes sample research [...] Read More... New Resources for Foreign Language: Mango Languages / Transparent Language Online Carrie Dunham-LaGree Whether you want to learn a new foreign language or practice a familiar one, there are two new databases to help you: Mango Languages and Transparent Language Online. Mango Languages is an interactive database that provides lesson plans for 72 different languages. To track your progress, create an account. Mango conveniently tracks your learning yours, the courses [...] Read More... Literature Resource Center and LitFinder (Gale) Andrew Welch Literature Resource Center (LRC) is one of several new literature databases Cowles Library has added to help support all types of literary research. These databases expand our online access to literary criticism, critical reviews, author biographies, along with thousands of poems, plays, and works of short fiction. LRC includes biographical information about authors and literary criticism of authors’ [...] Read More... Library Faculty on University Committees Bruce Gilbert Library Faculty participation on Faculty Senate Committees for 2017-2018 Every member of the Cowles Library Faculty is on one (or more) standing Drake Faculty Senate Committee(s), or other standing University-wide committee. Faculty committee participation is as follows (in random order): Hope Bibens – Intercollegiate Athletics Bruce Gilbert – University Benefits Committee Teri Koch – University [...] Read More... Veterans Exhibit Katherine Lincoln The Drake University Archives honors veterans in a special display of photographs, memorabilia, and articles to commemorate Veteran’s Day, November 11th. From Drake’s President Martin, to former alumni and faculty, the exhibit shares how members of the Drake family have served our country. The display is located on the second floor of Cowles Library, just [...] Read More... Dunham-LaGree joins ACRL Committee Bruce Gilbert Carrie Dunham-LaGree, Asst. Professor of Librarianship, recently accepted a nationa...