2022-23 - ER Roundup - What's new with RL's E-Resources - Rohrbach Library Home at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

New Resources

Ethnic Diversity Source This link opens in a new window
Full text database focused on covering the culture, traditions, social treatment and lived experiences of different ethnic groups in America. It contains a growing list of full text sources including peer-reviewed journals, magazines, e-books, biographies and primary source documents. Includes 479 journals, 5200 ebooks, 2200 biographies, 40,000+ primary sources, 1,100 videos. Learn more.
Social Explorer This link opens in a new window
Social Explorer is a web-based mapping and data visualization tool. Provides thousands of interactive data maps going back to 1790. Check out their useful libguide and short videos to get started.
Learn more about using Social Explorer here
TeachingBooks This link opens in a new window
TeachingBooks is a collection of 250,000+ digital materials about children's and young adult books. Find author interviews, video book trailers, read-alongs, discussion questions, vocabulary lists, and more. Video.

HeinOnline - LGBTQ+ Rights database
HeinOnline added a new free collection to our subscription titled LGBTQ+ Rights. HeinOnline database.

Benezit Dictionary of Artists This link opens in a new window
The most comprehensive resource for artists' biographies in the world, published since 1911. Learn more.

JSTOR eBooks This link opens in a new window
The library will be continuing with both the JSTOR EBA and DDA programs

JSTOR has also integrated ArtSTOR images and Community Collections into the JSTOR platform.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
We will be continuing the Elsevier EBA program for another year, we will have all ebook content from 2017-2022. At the end of this academic year, we will need to choose 10,250 worth of titles.
Washington Post This link opens in a new window
The Washington Post now supports user accounts. Patrons can now access the WP without having to go through library authentication after they create an account just like NYT and WSJ. I created a new library guide for The Post that highlights what is available: https://library.kutztown.edu/washingtonpost

I have also updated the newspaper libguide, it's a convenient page to share with patrons to help them access all our newspaper resources: https://library.kutztown.edu/newspapers

Oxford One Academic
Oxford is developing a unified platform for all its content called Oxford One Academic, books and journals are now searchable in a unified platform. The following databases have migrated so far Oxford Scholarship Online, University Press Scholarship Online, Oxford
Handbooks Online, Very Short Introductions, Oxford Medicine Online, and Oxford Clinical Psychology. Oxford says permanent redirects are in place so we will not need to redo catalog records.
WorldCat
OCLC has completed redesigned WorldCat. ILL functionality has been fixed. You will need to create an account and then choose KU as a favorite library to be able to limit to local content. Recommend using KU's WorldCat discovery database, it defaults to KU without creating an account. https://kutztown.on.worldcat.org/discovery

Sage Research Methods datasets - cancelled due to low usage (a total of 6 full-text requests and 7 investigations for 21-22).