Summer Reference Schedule

Summer Reference Schedule - May 12-Aug 22

Monday - Friday
10am - 12:30 pm
2 pm - 4:30 pm

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Library Hours - Summer

Summer Hours - Starting May 12
Mon - Friday 7:30am - 5pm
Saturday Noon - 5pm
Sunday Closed

 

 

Holocaust Memorial Museum Launch New Landmark Initiative

 

Project MUSE and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Launch New Landmark Initiative   Now available as an Open Access Digital Resource

 

(Washington, DC & Baltimore, MD) – Project MUSE, a division of Johns Hopkins University Press, in collaboration with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, announces today a new landmark in the Museum’s longstanding Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945 (ECG) series: ECG volumes I-IV are now fully searchable, open access digital publications freely available to everyone around the world. The most comprehensive resource on Nazi persecutory sites, the ECG offers users the ability to dynamically engage with empirically grounded research that documents thousands of camps, ghettos, and other sites of persecution operated by the Nazis and their allies.  Work on the multi-volume encyclopedia stretches back over twenty-five years and involves the work of over 700 scholars in the fields of history, Holocaust Studies, and other related disciplines. To date, this global scholarly collaboration has documented evidence of thousands of camps and ghettos. Project MUSE and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum are committed to broadening access to and increasing engagement with this vital scholarship. This new digital format will be an invaluable resource for wide-ranging audiences, including scholars, researchers, Holocaust survivors and their descendants, digital humanists, educators, students, librarians, archivists, nonprofits, and the general public. Users will gain straightforward access to extensive bibliographic citations comprising research in more than a dozen languages and varied source bases, including material in hundreds of archival collections, survivor and eyewitness testimonies, memoirs, diaries, memory books, and up-to-date scholarship. Users can navigate to the text of the ECG through a new interactive map that demonstrates the vast scale of this network of Nazi-era persecution. “The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has been working on this foundational encyclopedia for decades. The move to open access will ensure that this resource reaches scholars, researchers, and wider audiences wherever they are, thereby bringing new people into the conversation about the topic,” said Dr. Lisa Leff, Director of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.   The first four volumes of this seven-volume collection will be available in the new fully searchable, digital format beginning May 8th. Content in the remaining three volumes will be published online as it is available. In addition to the remaining volumes, newly updated content that incorporates previously inaccessible and undiscovered sources will continuously be added to the ECG. The ability to filter and search within and across volumes is a key component of the resource that empowers scholars to see the big picture of this research and make connections between entries.     About Project MUSE Project MUSE has offered libraries affordable access to essential humanities and social science research for nearly 30 years, as an integral part of the scholarly communications ecosystem and platform of choice for respected not-for-profit publishers. Currently, Project MUSE is the trusted and reliable source for over 800 journals and over 100,000 books, from nearly 400 of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies. MUSE also hosts thousands of open access books and several open access journal titles, freely available to anyone worldwide.   About the US Holocaust Memorial Museum A nonpartisan federal educational institution, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is America’s national memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, dedicated to ensuring the permanence of Holocaust memory, understanding, and relevance. Through the power of Holocaust history, the Museum challenges leaders and individuals worldwide to think critically about their role in society and to confront antisemitism and other forms of hate, prevent genocide, and promote human dignity. For more information, visit ushmm.org.

FromThePage Newsletter

Our first issue of FromthePage Newsletter is now available.

See what we are doing with transcription projects.

https://libguides.usd.edu/fromthepage/newsletter

Library Hours - Finals

May 4,  10am - 2am
May 5 - 8,  730am - 2am
May 9,  730am - 8pm
May 10, Noon- 5pm
May 11, Closed

 

 

Library Hours - May

 

March 2025 RED Readership Snapshot

In March, USD RED had 14772 full-text downloads and 15 new submissions were posted, bringing the total works in the repository to 3092. University of South Dakota scholarship was read by 1405 institutions across 150 countries. 

The most popular papers were:
A Criminological Analysis of Notorious Serial Killers in the United States (1300 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis/156

The Parentification of Eldest Daughters (655 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/diss-thesis/244

The Impact of Religiosity on Students’ Experience at the University of South Dakota (311 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis/335


The most popular publications were:
Honors Thesis (6890 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis

Dissertations and Theses (3464 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/diss-thesis

South Dakota Law Review (1732 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/sdlrev

Library Hours - Easter

 Library Hours - Easter

April 18-20 Closed
April 21 Noon - 10pm

 

Reading Room is closed Friday, April 11 2025

 The Archives and Special Collections Reading Room is closed Friday, April 11 2025

Library Hours - April

 

INFORMS Journals Now Available in EBSCOhost Business Source Premier

INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research & the Management Sciences) is the leading international association for professionals specializing in operations research and analytics. It publishes 17 distinguished, scholarly peer-reviewed journals—many featured on the FT50 list—that cover areas such as operations research, decision analysis, analytics, and related fields.
Beginning January 1, 2026, Business Source will serve as the sole source for online full text for INFORMS journals.
Full text for content from 1998 forward for these journals will be available in the following versions of Business Source:

•     Business Source Premier  https://usd.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=buh

Full text for current and ongoing issues AND all full-text backfiles will be available via Business Source Ultimate (along with a comprehensive collection of business journals & magazines, trade periodicals, company information, country reports, etc.).

 List of INFORMS Journals Now Available

•     Decision Analysis
•     Information Systems Research
•     INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics
•     INFORMS Journal on Computing
•     INFORMS Journal on Data Science
•     INFORMS Journal on Optimization
•     INFORMS Transactions on Education
•     Management Science
•     Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
•     Marketing Science
•     Mathematics of Operations Research
•     Operations Research
•     Organization Science
•     Service Science
•     Stochastic Systems
•     Strategy Science
•     Transportation Science

February 2025 Readership Snapshot - RED

In February 2025, USD RED had 15562 full-text downloads and 78 new submissions were posted, bringing the total works in the repository to 3003. University of South Dakota scholarship was read by 1417 institutions across 151 countries. 

The most popular papers were:
A Criminological Analysis of Notorious Serial Killers in the United States (1108 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis/156
The Parentification of Eldest Daughters (653 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/diss-thesis/244
Application of Leininger’s Culture Care Theory in Family Medical History (306 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis/43


The most popular publications were:
Honors Thesis (6325 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis
Dissertations and Theses (3302 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/diss-thesis
South Dakota Law Review (1858 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/sdlrev

Trials - Counseling and Therapy V: The Symptom Media Collection via Alexander Street.

Counseling and Therapy V: The Symptom Media Collection via Alexander Street.

https://trials.proquest.com/access?token=kQhJHkCqWFMBkMXjBndIQbWyD

Trial runs March 19 to April 19, 2025

Ideal for counseling, psychology, social work, medical, nursing, psychiatry, and other behavioral health care courses, Volume V  helps students better recognize mental health disorders and provide accurate diagnoses via 900+ streaming mental health videos aligned to DSM-5®/ICD-10 content.

• For more information: https://alexanderstreet.com/products/counseling-and-therapy-video-volume-v-symptom-media-collection

• Fill out our feedback form and let us know what you think about this resource: http://libguides.usd.edu/trial

Library Hours - Spring Break

Friday (3/7) 7:30am - 5pm
Saturday - Sunday (3/8-9) Closed
Monday - Friday (3/10-14) 7:30am - 5pm
Saturday (3/15) Closed
Sunday (3/16) Noon - Midnight

Library Hours - March

 

RED Readership - January 2025

In January, USD RED had 14271 full-text downloads and 121 new submissions were posted, bringing the total works in the repository to 2975. University of South Dakota scholarship was read by 1068 institutions across 142 countries. 

The most popular papers were:
A Criminological Analysis of Notorious Serial Killers in the United States (894 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis/156
The Parentification of Eldest Daughters (571 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/diss-thesis/244
The Impact of Religiosity on Students’ Experience at the University of South Dakota (288 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis/335


The most popular publications were:
Honors Thesis (5836 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis
Dissertations and Theses (3089 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/diss-thesis
South Dakota Law Review (1503 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/sdlrev

SUPPORTING FACULTY PUBLISHING AT THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES AN INTRODUCTION TO TRANSFORMATIVE AGREEMENTS

 SUPPORTING FACULTY PUBLISHING
AT THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
AN INTRODUCTION TO TRANSFORMATIVE AGREEMENTS

When: March 6, 12:00-12:45 PM
Where: Center for Teaching & Learning Classroom
UCE 116 & Zoom

REGISTER
https://usd-dsrs.libcal.com/

 

2024 Annual Report

The 2024 Annual Report is now available: https://red.library.usd.edu/arn/19

Library Hours - Presidents Day

Feb 15-16, Noon - 5pm
Feb 17, Noon - 10 pm

 

Libby Trial

To access the Libby trial, follow this link: https://libbyapp.com/library/academicprodemo. Once there, enter my email on the side where it asks for your library card. (danielle.loftus@usd.edu)

You will have until 3/5/2025 to explore Libby.

Libby, the most-awarded reading app, provides access to content when your students need it, no matter where they are. Students will love how easy Libby is to use, and because Libby is available in 10 languages, your digital library will be accessible to everyone on your campus.

From pleasure reading to curriculum support, meet your campus' needs instantly with a diverse range of subject matter including:
• Literature
• Bestsellers
• Technology
• Professional development
• Psychology
• Engineering

Video overview: https://overdrive.wistia.com/medias/ofezj03pf2

 

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