Database Trial - LatAm-Studies Full-Text

The trial runs until November 30th.

LatAm-Studies Full Text online is a database service dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of research on Latin America and the Caribbean, including journals and other academic content. It brings together full-text reports on 46 countries. Coverage includes all countries in South America, Caribbean, Central America and Mexico. Subjects covered include business, government, economic, and social issues.
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Board Vitals

BoardVitals Question Banks offer 24-hour access from your phone, tablet and computer to a huge question bank with a database of expert reviewed board questions. Board Vitals uses the same technologically advanced test interface as USMLE as well as:

• The ability to create customized practice tests using many options including number or questions, subjects and more
• Provides advanced statistics so you can know where your strengths and weaknesses are
• Suggests questions based on your performance  
•  Detailed, up-to-date explanations for each answer, with references and links to applicable sources
• A question bank that is created by leading medical publishers, research institutions, and practicing physicians
• A 'Quick Hit' section highlights the must know questions for the boards

To access Board Vitals:
Visit usd.edu/library

Click on the databases tab

Find Board Vitals by clicking on B

Once in Board Vitals- as a first time user, you will need register:  select “If registering for the first time, click here”.  You may select your own user name and password.

Once you have registered, you may access board vitals directly at boardvitals.com. Log in using the user name and password that you created.

New books!

 

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New Database- JAMAevidence

JAMAevidence

Wegner Partner Access

JAMAevidence helps to identify the best available evidence through educational guides such as the Users’ Guide to Medical Literature, the Rational Clinical Examination: Evidence Based Clinical Diagnosis, and Care at the Close of Life: Evidence and Experience.

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JSTOR access has been restored

JSTOR access has been restored.

Thank you for your patience during this week’s site-wide access problems. We have identified the root cause and solved the issue. We strive to provide the very best service and availability of JSTOR that we can, and we will continue to do so in the coming weeks as we complete the migration to our new platform. We encourage you to check our platform updates page for information about this work, and to please let us know if any further issues arise. 
http://about.jstor.org/jstor-help-support/jstor-updates

A Discussion about Artist's Books: Books Created or Altered as Original Works of Art

When: Wednesday, November 18, 2015 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Where: I.D. Weeks Library, Room 205
See: http://libguides.usd.edu/BU3

To coincide with the University Libraries Bound & Unbound III exhibition, Amy Fill and Lateesha Caswell (Art Department graduate students) will present a general discussion about book making and altered books. Participants will then move to the Bound & Unbound III: Altered Book Exhibition where exhibit coordinator Sarah Hanson will lead an open discussion about the exhibit. Open to the public; class involvement and community participation is encouraged.

If you are a person with a disability and need a special accommodation to fully participate, please contact Disability Services at 605-677-6389 48 hours before the event.

Access to JSTOR temporarily down

Access to JSTOR articles is currently unavailable.   Searching is still available but you will not be able to download articles.   We are working resolving this issue but we cannot say when the issue will be fixed.

Library Hours - Native American Day

Sunday (10/11) 10 am - 11 pm
Monday (11/12) 10 am - 2 am

BOUND AND UNBOUND III: ALTERED BOOK EXHIBITION

Monday, August 24, 2015 - Mon , January 4, 2016

http://libguides.usd.edu/bookart

The Art and Exhibits Committee, University Libraries, at the University of South Dakota, present the 2015 Bound and Unbound III international juried altered book exhibition.

Artist Sandy Brooke, associate professor of art at the College of Liberal Arts, Oregon State University Cascades in Bend, Oregon juried the exhibition.

Artists from Canada, Romania, Spain and the United States are represented in this exhibition. Sixty-three artists qualified the call representing 115 pieces. The exhibition comprises 37 artists representing 46 works.

Bound and Unbound III: Altered Book Exhibition” is photographed and cataloged, and has been placed in the Digital Library of South Dakota. The exhibition is open to the public during library operating hours.

Wild sheep chase by Alexis Arnold

Wild sheep chase by Alexis Arnold

Exhibit - Silent Witness Initiative

The Department of Political Science is sponsoring Silent Witness Initiative from Oct 1 -11th on the 2nd Floor, University Libraries.  

In 1990, the Silent Witness Initiative began promoting and education to support an end to domestic violence through community based exhibits.  It started with a small group of volunteers in one state and grew into an international presence, with projects in all 50 states and 23 countries.

Silent Witness provides hope, help and healing for the victims and violators of domestic violence. Our goal is to eliminate domestic violence homicides by 2020.

Thousands of men and women die each year in acts of domestic violence in the United States.  Each one has a story.  Join our efforts to end this tragedy.
https://www.silentwitness.net/

 

Database Trial - Routledge Performance Archive

Trial Link:
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End Date: December 1, 2015
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The Routledge Performance Archive provides unlimited opportunities to explore themes, make linkages, and discover new approaches

• Watch exclusive videos from practitioners’  own archives
• Listen to unique audio material
• Read first-hand accounts, authoritative definitions and contextualising commentary
• Make connections across many decades of theatre-making
• Construct maps, timelines and genealogies
• Explore themes and ideas about performance practice
• Discover practitioners, methods, styles of work
• Identify influences and approaches
• Compare cultures and eras.

Be sure to TAKE A TOUR (the link is at the bottom center of the site) for further information on how the site works.