From Myrin Library’s Collections: New Resources are in Bloom this Spring!

Myrin Library’s new resources are in bloom this spring! Check them out!

American Chemical Society – Open Access Read and Publish Agreement

Access to the American Chemical Society’s 75 e-journals and 39 archival e-journals is not new, but the Read and Publish Agreement is! This means that Ursinus College faculty can now publish open access articles as corresponding authors in American Chemical Society journals and have their article processing fees waived. This new 2-year deal, beginning in 2023, is made possible through one of Myrin Library’s consortia: PALCI.

Cambridge University Press Journals - Database plus Open Access Read and Publish Agreement

Myrin Library used to have access to only 11 Cambridge University Press journals. Beginning in 2023, with this new 3-year read and publish agreement, Myrin Library now has access to 408 journals. In addition, Ursinus College faculty can now publish open access articles as corresponding authors in Cambridge University Press journals and have their author processing fees waived. This transformative agreement, otherwise known as “Read and Publish” is made possible through another one of Myrin Library’s consortia: LYRASIS. This is Myrin Library’s first Read and Publish agreement with a journal publisher who publishes journals in the humanities and social science disciplines.

Gale Archives Unbound Collections

Myrin Library has acquired the following primary source Gale Archives Unbound collections:

• European Colonialism in the Early 20th Century: Italian Colonies in North Africa and Aggression in East Africa, 1930-1939. The papers, correspondence, studies, reports, maps and cables in this collection relate to U.S. consular activities. The source of this collection is the U.S. National Archives.
• Final Accountability Rosters of Japanese-American Relocation Centers, 1944-1946. The rosters are from the War Relocation Authority. The source of this collection in the U.S. National Archives.
• Japanese American Internment: Records of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
• The Observer: News for the American Soldier in Vietnam, 1962-1973. “The Observer” was published weekly by the Command Information Division of the U.S. Military Office of Command. The source of this collection is the Library of Congress.
• Transcripts of the Malcolm X Assassination Trial. The source of this collection is the New York State Supreme Court.

Gale Primary Source Database: Indigenous Peoples of North America. Part I.

This primary source database collection provides resources from the sixteenth through twentieth centuries covering historical events, political issues, and cultural traditions of indigenous peoples in the United States of America and Canada. Included in this collection are newspapers from indigenous tribes and organizations as well as monographs, manuscripts, artwork, newspapers, and images from various well-known institutional collections in the United States and Canada.

These Gale databases were acquired via Myrin Library’s consortium PALCI.

New York Times (Digital Access)

Ursinus faculty, staff, and current students now have direct digital access to the New York Times at nytimes.com. Access includes articles from the paper’s founding in 1851 through the present, as well as video footage and live events. Users must first create a personal account with their Ursinus e-mail address to be able to access nytimes.com. An e-mail message to the Ursinus community with more details about this brand-new resource is coming very soon. New York Times (Digital Access) was acquired via Myrin Library’s consortium LYRASIS. 

Except for Cambridge University Press Journals, which can be found in Myrin Library’s OneSearch, or directly on the Cambridge University Press Journals website, the new acquisitions mentioned above are found on Myrin Library’s Databases A-Z page. Note that these acquisitions are only licensed to Ursinus College faculty, students, and staff.

Enjoy these new acquisitions! If you have questions about using any of them, or are curious about Myrin Library’s collections in general, please contact Kerry Gibson, Collection Management Librarian.

For information in general about Open Access, please check out Myrin Library’s Open Access in Depth LibGuide.