Library Hours - Memorial Day

 Closed May 24 - 26

 

The Archives reading room hours - June

The Archives reading room will be available by appointment only after 12pm from June 9 to June 13, 2025. Email the Archives at speccoll at usd.edu

 

 

Academic Search Complete tutorials

We have new Academic Search Complete tutorials on YouTube

Academic Search Complete Part One (How to find and access scholarly databases)
https://youtu.be/s4JWAUoah3c
Academic Search Complete Part Two (Basic search techniques)
https://youtu.be/Pmeni3yuRBo
Academic Search Complete Part Three (Using advanced search strategies)
https://youtu.be/E8XRJFsPpvY

Changes to IPA Source effective June 1, 2025

Effective June 1, IPA Source has upgraded the text viewer. All texts will be accessible via a convenient "View Full Text" button, which will open the text in a new window/tab. This change also offers an improved experience for those accessing IPA Source from a mobile device.

As of this update, the ability to download individual files as PDFs will be discontinued, but printing files is permitted to any printing option supported by the user’s device (including print to PDF file if enabled). All files are for the personal use of the authorized user.

Faculty may continue to refer to the same text links. Permalinks continue to be available for each text in our catalog.

RED Readership - May 2025

In May, USD RED had 20781 full-text downloads and 1025 new submissions were posted, bringing the total works in the repository to 6929. University of South Dakota scholarship was read by 1812 institutions across 158 countries.
The most popular papers were: 

A Criminological Analysis of Notorious Serial Killers in the United States (1604 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis/156
The Role of Dating Apps in the Formation of Long-Term Relationships in College (609 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis/317
The Parentification of Eldest Daughters (502 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/diss-thesis/244


The most popular publications were:
Honors Thesis (8941 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis
Dissertations and Theses (4385 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/diss-thesis
South Dakota Law Review (2942 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/sdlrev

Retirement Reception - Carol Leibiger

Please Join Us for a Retirement Reception Honoring Professor Carol Leibiger

May 19, 2025
3:00-4:30
I.D. Weeks Library
2nd Floor Tower

Light Refreshments Will Be Served
Remarks at 3:30

An RSVP is not Required
Cards and Notes to Carol are Welcome

 

 

New User Interface for EBSCOhost databases

EBSCOhost Databases are updating their user interface! Changes will take place for USD on Thursday, May 15.

Quick start guide can be found at https://connect.ebsco.com/s/article/New-EBSCOhost-Quick-Start-Guide?language=en_US

If you have questions please email us at library@usd.edu

Summer Reference Schedule

Summer Reference Schedule - May 12-Aug 22

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

libanswers.usd.edu

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