The Library Catalog Has a New Look
We let you know that the library catalog would be changing, and we’re happy to let you know those updates are now live. The catalog will now work better on mobile devices and get you to the top-used resources more quickly. Start typing in your search, and you’ll get some suggested searches or specific libraries […]
Open Access Week: Scaling the Paywall
We are lucky at Loyola University Chicago to have fantastic library collections and great options for interlibrary loan, but we don’t have access to everything, and these services are mostly for current faculty, staff, and students. What do you do if you can’t get an article through the library? Academic articles are costly to read […]
Open Access at Loyola
We do open access at Loyola in order to highlight the amazing work our faculty and students are doing, to give access to those who might not have it otherwise, and participate in a global scholarly conversation. Highlighting Our Faculty and Students We have more than 8,500 items in eCommons, our institutional repository. 1,153 are […]
Some Things You Might Not Know about eCommons
We all know Loyola does amazing work with social justice and justice sustainability, but you may not know how eCommons, Loyola’s institutional repository contributes to that mission. eCommons contains scholarly items produced by Loyola faculty and students, and almost everything in there is free to anyone in the world to read. Since this week is […]