Project Muse E-Journal Trial Available Until December 11

The library has trial access for Project Muse Humanities e-journals until December 11. Project Muse provides full text access to journals from many scholarly societies and university presses.

Project Muse E-Books Available for Preview

Over 300 digital books, from 27 publishers, are available for free sample access on the ProjectMuse beta site until the end of 2011. Project Muse provides a platform for scholarly journal content from university press publishers, and will now include books from some of these publishers as well.

BibleWorks Workshops at LSTC on November 10

If you have BibleWorks and would like to get more out of the program to assist you with your Biblical studies, there are two workshops being offered at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago on Thursday, November 10th. You may register online for the workshops; the cost of each workshop is $30.

Brown Bag Zotero Workshop Friday, October 14th

Would you like to learn more about using Zotero to manage your citations and make bibliographies? This workshop will cover the basics of installing Zotero, how to save citations to Zotero, and how to create citations in appropriate citation styles. The workshop is from 12pm to 1pm in room 504. You may bring your lunch, and bring your laptop if you wish; additional help will be available after the workshop if you need assistance in installing Zotero.

More JSTOR Journals from Early Journal Content

JSTOR has announced that all JSTOR journals published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870 elsewhere will be freely available to the public. CTU library patrons should continue to use CTU's JSTOR login, and CTU alums should continue to use MyJSTOR. The additional journal content will be incorporated into CTU's journal collection. CTU alums who have not registered for MyJSTOR can contact us for login instructions.

New Students - Please Validate Your ID in the Library

New CTU students will need to bring their student ID to the library in order check out books. Once you have registered your ID at the circulation desk, you can create an account in the library catalog.This account will allow you to place interlibrary loan requests, view your checked out items and renew them, email catalog records, and keep a list of favorites in your account. You can create this account at the login page by filling in the requested information, choosing an easy to remember user name and password, and filling in your library barcode information on the account creation page.

If you would like to use one of the ACTS libraries or the University of Chicago library, please sign up for an ACTS card at the circulation desk when you register your student ID.

New Documents Added to Oxford Islamic Studies Online

A number of new primary source documents have been added to Oxford Islamic Studies Online. For a complete list of these documents, visit Oxford's What's New feature for Oxford Islamic Studies Online.