New from Kanopy
January 2024
• The Sicilian Girl
• Caro diario
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New from Swank Digital Campus
January 2024
• The Son's Room
Drama Online - Stratford Festival Shakespeare Collection
See all available titles in the Stratford Shakespeare Collection
The following titles have been added to Bloom's Twentieth Century American Literature series, edited by Harold Bloom:
The following titles are now available in the Bloom's Literature Twentieth Century American Literature Series, edited by Harold Bloom:
The following titles have been added in the Twentieth Century American Literature series, edited by Harold Bloom:
We have established a new digital collection in Alma for Open Educational Resources (OERs) used in courses at OCC. So far two titles have been included and more are on the way. In addition to being housed in this collection, these items are discoverable in a Search Everything general search and may also be linked to course reserves.
This collection will be a great way to help students find resources being used in their courses and will help promote the OCC Libraries as a supporter of and source for OERs.
Films on Demand has a feature that allows instructors to create and share quizzes with their students. Four different types of questions are available: Short Answer, Multiple Choice, True/False, and Check All That Apply. Once a quiz is created and saved it can be shared with students by email, permalink, or through D2L. Find out more from the Films on Demand support site.
On March 4 EBSCO will be moving some of our low use database profiles (those that have had fewer than 100 searches over the last year) to the new user interface. We will look at moving all of our EBSCO databases to the new user interface after the Winter semester. Watch the Introduction to the New EBSCOhost video for a preview of the changes.
EBSCOhost has started transitioning its Reference Center databases to the new Explora interface. This interface is designed specifically for schools and public libraries, and aims to offer library users a "more modern and efficient search experience across all devices."
The Explora interface is now available for the following databases at OCC:
EBSCOhost plans to transition the remaining databases to the new interface by July. At OCC, this includes Biography Reference Center, Consumer Health Complete, Literary Reference Center, Poetry & Short Story Reference Center, and Points of View Reference Center.
Name changes, tutorial video coming soon
During this transition, Reference Center databases will also drop the “Center” and be referred to as “Reference Source” databases, For example, the “History Reference Center” database will become “History Reference Source.” As these names change, we'll update them accordingly on OCC's Find Articles/Databases page. A new tutorial video will also be created soon, and it will be added to any databases on the Find Articles/Databases page that have made the transition to Explora.
More from EBSCOhost: New Reference Center User Experience – Overview and Frequently Asked Questions
Artstor is moving to the JSTOR interface and the current Artstor website will be retired on August 1, 2024. In preparation for this, Artstor is copying all registered users' image groups to the JSTOR Workspace in February 2024. Users who have image groups currently saved in Artstor have been notified of the move and the image groups will be available in Artstor until the old site closes on August 1. There will also be an import tool available for moving any saved image groups to the new site in the future in case anything is missed after the February move.
We plan in keeping the old Artstor site linked on out databases page until the end of the Winter semester. The new Artstor is now available on the JSTOR site if you’d like a preview at https://www-jstor-org.portal.oaklandcc.edu/images. And thanks to Jen for this preview video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyFBayRQy0E.
We have enabled a new open access linking service in Primo called Unpaywall. Unpaywall provides direct links to PDF versions of open access articles and should improve access to these sources by bypassing tables of contents pages and avoiding having to login for off-campus users. The Unpaywall links will appear along with the other database links on full record screen. Here's an example.