New way to download and read ebooks, try the Ebook Central Reader App

 We’re excited to let you know that our library now supports the new Ebook Central Reader App – a faster, simpler way to download and read full ebooks from Ebook Central on your personal device.

Built with students in mind, the app replaces Adobe Digital Editions and makes offline reading easier than ever.

What’s New:

·         Download full ebooks directly to your device

·         Read anywhere – even without internet access

·         Built for accessibility, security, and ease of use

How to Get Started:

1.       Follow the Installation guide

2.       Watch this short walkthrough or sign up for a training session.

3.       Log-in to Download the Ebook Central Reader App from the App Store (iOS), Google Play (Android), or install it on your Windows/macOS laptop.

4.       Sign in with your Ebook Central account – the same one you use to access ebooks through our library.

5.       Start downloading your ebooks for offline reading.

👉 Need help? Visit the Ebook Central LibGuide

New Resource: AccessAnesthesiology

We are pleased to announce the addition of a new and valuable resource to our digital collection: AccessAnesthesiology! This powerful online platform provides a wealth of content for anesthesiology education and clinical practice.

Key Features of AccessAnesthesiology:

• Comprehensive Texts: AccessAnesthesiology includes leading textbooks in the field, covering a wide range of topics, from basic principles to advanced techniques.
• Multimedia Resources: Explore a variety of multimedia resources, including procedural videos, animations, and self-assessment tools to enhance your learning experience.
• Quick Reference Tools: Access clinical guidelines, drug information, and quick reference tools to support decision-making in real-world scenarios.
• Exam Preparation: Utilize board review materials and self-assessment resources to prepare for exams and stay up-to-date with the latest developments in anesthesiology.

Access Information:
You can access AccessAnesthesiology by clicking on this link https://usd.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com

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.

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

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.

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

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

New resource - Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement

The University Libraries has subscribed to the Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement digital collection. This publishing effort of ITHAKA & REVEAL DIGITAL focuses on making archival resources related to grassroots civil rights activism openly available and integrated with the JSTOR platform. To learn more about the collection and its sources please see https://about.jstor.org/revealdigital/behind-the-scenes-civil-rights-movements/.
 
All of Reveal Digital’s publishing efforts https://about.jstor.org/revealdigital/ are integrated with the JSTOR platform. Thus, the Behind the Scenes collection, as it becomes open, is discoverable to students and faculty alongside related content in our JSTOR journal and book subscriptions.

Chronicle of Higher Education

 USD ensures that you have access to hundreds of journals and resources for your learning. Today, we’re highlighting one of those resources: The Chronicle of Higher Education! Whether you are on campus or on the go, you have access to The Chronicle’s news, opinions, advice, and data. Get started today at chronicle.com.

For best access, register for an account using your USD email address.

 

 

Database Trial - American Children’s Books 1654-1819

 The University Libraries are trialing the database - American Children’s Books 1654-1819 until Nov. 1.

https://usd.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/readex/welcome?p=AMCBX

The most comprehensive digital collection of books published for children’s entertainment, instruction, education, and play
Nearly 6,000 books offer extraordinary insight into early American life
Features text and data analysis tools, author biographies, and suggested search paths for easy browsing and discovery

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

 

 

Update your bookmarks - Bates Visual Guide

 Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Examination Streaming Videos has moved platforms.  Please update your bookmarks!  https://usd.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://clinicalcontext.lww.com/en/batesvisualguide

Artstor content moving to JSTOR

The Artstor website will be retired on August 1, 2024.

Join the transition of #ArtstorToJSTOR and unlock a treasure trove of over two million artworks for your #VisualLearning needs. With Artstor moving to JSTOR, the world of #DigitalArchives is richer than ever. Don’t miss out on this evolution; make your move before the Artstor site’s retirement on August 1, 2024. 

Visit  https://usd.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/artstor

 

New Database - Loeb Classical Library

Loeb Classical Library

 https://usd.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.loebclassics.com/

  Founded by James Loeb in 1911 to place the written treasures of the Greek and Roman past within the reach of all interested readers, the Loeb Classical Library has for more than a century produced its iconic green and red editions of ancient masterworks in a convenient, affordable, and accessible format. Epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; satire and the novel; history, philosophy, and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians; those Church Fathers who made particular use of pagan culture—in short, our entire classical heritage is represented with up-to-date texts and accurate English translations, both in print and online. The editors provide substantive introductions as well as essential critical and explanatory notes and selective bibliographies, and the series is continually revised and updated in light of modern scholarship.

New Database - Data Axle

Data Axle

https://usd.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://www.referenceusa.com/

 
Data Axle is a prominent provider of big data, analytics, and marketing services. This database is an excellent resource for researching current U.S. businesses, historical business data, and consumer lifestyles. It is handy for identifying competitors and suppliers, as well as for evaluating market potential.