Digital Scholarship Demo

USC Faculty members are invited to Doheny Library to a demonstration of a suite of services (AIMS) offered by the USC Libraries to facilitate digital scholarship.

Where: Doheny Library, Intellectual Commons, 2nd floor
When: Wednesday, November 29th, 2-3 p.m.

USC Digital Library Seeks Faculty Contributors

USC Libraries has joined other top universities in offering to faculty secure server space for storing work in progress, important documents and teaching materials (including multimedia projects). See http://ir.usc.edu

This secure digital library with plenty of space is called USC Institutional Repository (and is also known as DSpace). Its great advantage is that USC Libraries will assure that contributed documents will be stored on stable servers. In other words, such documents will be securely preserved for decades. Commercially available digital spaces are ephemeral.

Access to personalized DSpaces can be limited to owner (professor contributor), to a select group of people, or open to the world (world wide web accessible). Among other purposes, DSpace can be used for launching new scholarly journals, archiving papers produced by graduate students, and as a tool for facilitating online scholarly collaborations.

Demonstration of various uses of DSpace will take place in Doheny Library Intellectual Commons on Wednesday, November 29 at 2 p.m. If you would like to acquire your DSpace account, please let me know and I'll make all necessary arrangments and will be happy to answer all your questions.

Articles and Book Chapters delivered via Email

New service is available for USC faculty. At a faculty member request, USC Libraries will scan and email articles and book chapters available in USC Libraries.

This new service is called Desktop Document Delivery. Please request electronic copies of article journals and book chapters available in USC Libraires via Inter Library Loan request site http://usc.illiad.oclc.org/illiad/logon.html

New Easy Remote Acces to USC Electronic Resources

USC LIbraries is implementing a new way of accessing electronic resources from off campus locations. No VPN necessary.

If you wish to test this new mode of remote access, please log in with your USC login and password on the following page: https://libproxy.usc.edu/login
Once you log in, you can search USC resources from any computer with internet connection.

If you would like to find out more about the EASY PROXY implementation, please link to http://www.usc.edu/libraries/news/proxy/