Heard Libraries Communications

Many publishers and databases continue to offer enhanced, free access to content during the pandemic. The Vanderbilt Libraries continue to update the COVID-19 Guide that provides information on enhanced access to databases, collections, and textbooks. Enhanced access has ended from some sources, so please check the guide for updates. Read More

The library has recently acquired a one-year subscription to Digitalia Hispánica http://www.digitaliapublishing.com.proxy.library.vanderbilt.edu/ This database includes access to over 30,000 Spanish language e-books (mainly Iberian) and about 5,000 e-journals. You can search this as a separate database but all the titles are also listed in our catalog. The e-books include… Read More

The University Libraries will open a new exhibition, “Tending to Popular Thought: What People Read and Why,” this fall in the second-floor gallery of Central Library. The physical exhibition, curated by four undergraduate Buchanan Library Fellows during spring semester 2020, delayed by the COVID pandemic will be… Read More

This is a fourth in a series of articles written by the Science and Engineering library’s student assistants about their life during the COVID-19  quarantine. Hello! My name is Lannawill Caruth and I’m a student assistant at the Stevenson Library. I am a first-year student studying Biomedical Engineering. Since leaving… Read More

Additional Open Access (OA) content is now discoverable via new Unpaywall links in the Library Catalog. Unpaywall harvests OA content from legal sources including repositories run by universities, governments, and scholarly societies, as well as open content hosted by publishers themselves. The Unpaywall functionality has recently been added to Alma… Read More

Three grad students teamed up to use storytelling and cartoons to teach tough science topics. Real-life scientists inspire these comic book superheroes… Read More

This is a third in a series of articles written by the Science and Engineering library’s student assistants about their life during the COVID-19  quarantine. My name is Kolade Balogun and I am an international student from London, England studying Chemical Engineering.  Honestly I haven’t really been doing too much… Read More

The Walker Management Library continues to offer access to PitchBook, a database for analyzing private equity, venture capital, and mergers & acquisitions across the private investment lifecycle.  Any Vanderbilt student, faculty, or staff member can create a PitchBook account with their Vanderbilt email address. Accounts will automatically reset each… Read More

This is a second in a series of articles written by the Science and Engineering library’s student assistants about their life during the COVID-19  quarantine. I am Latif an international student from Ghana, majoring in mechanical engineering and minoring in computer science. I am interested in renewable energy and electric… Read More

Vanderbilt Libraries acknowledge our responsibility to work as allies in an effort to create a community that is open-minded and anti-racist. Modern librarianship adheres to an essential set of core values that include freedom of speech, promotion of diversity, and recognition of our social responsibility to inform and educate for… Read More