US Department of Energy Public Access Plan was released on July 24, 2014. [Plan] The Department of Energy (DOE) has implemented their own Public Access Gateway for Energy and Science (DOE PAGES – Beta) as a repository for federally funded research. In US Department of Energy Announces Public Access Plan (David Crotty, Aug. 4, 2014), Read More

The University Libraries are very excited to announce the new Architecture & Planning Library will begin regular operations tomorrow, September 11th. The Architecture & Planning (ARPL) Library is located in the lower level of the Crough Center and holds the core collection of materials which support the learning and research done by the students and Read More

Business Source Complete  is available through September 31.  It is a comprehensive business periodical database–some argue that it is the most comprehensive business periodical database— that includes scholarly journals and business periodicals covering such topics as management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and much more. The database contains full text from international top ranking journals including Harvard Read More

From this Summer, we changed the system behind the “FindIt” button , and have a new page to access our online databases and e-journals. Please see below for the summary: Before Now FindIt button The page after clicking “FindIt” button     Articles Databases and More CU’s e-Journal We also have a new ticket system Read More

  For over 35 years, the Washington Research Library Consortium has taken decisive action to empower students and faculty in our member institutions. Through our collaborative partnership, WRLC consistently achieves substantive outcomes by: Hosting a preservation-quality space for print materials Actively promoting college affordability through open access books, journals, and textbooks Ensuring a secure environment Read More

The University Libraries and the Department of Library and Information Science are offering a series of workshops this semester. The theme of the workshops is text data mining. Text data mining is the process of extracting valuable insights and patterns from unstructured textual data using various computational and statistical techniques to analyze and interpret this Read More

Trying to locate a dissertation or thesis? Start with our new research guide: Dissertations and Theses. This guide will assist graduate students in locating dissertations, and writing their own dissertation. The guide has information on: specific instructions for locating dissertations at Catholic University of America locating dissertations at other American institutions locating foreign and open Read More

Love Data Week (Feb. 8-12) is an international celebration of data hosted by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). Love Data Week is a project to raise awareness of the importance of data in our daily lives and to build a community to engage on topics in data analysis, preservation, curation, dissemination, Read More

Every two years, the ACRL Research Planning and Review Committee publishes in College & Research Libraries News an article on the top trends and issues affecting academic libraries and the change our institutions are experiencing. We will be highlighting some of these trends through a number of blog posts over the next few weeks. Research Read More

Less than three months into the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans are already adjusting to some big changes in their day-to-day lives. Perhaps the biggest? Finding a way to work, play, and gather when the traditional methods are forbidden by social distancing rules.  Happy hours, family gatherings, classes, and meetings are all still happening in quarantined America Read More