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Questions?

Contact query@grinnell.edu or your liaison librarian for additional help on using this resource.

Or schedule a Library Lab which is a research consultation and an opportunity for a student or a small group of students to meet with a librarian and discuss an academic research project.

To find more library databases for your research, check out the Grinnell College Libraries’ Databases A-Z list.

Grinnell students, faculty, and staff have access to the extensive primary source collections of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), an international consortium of university, college, and independent research libraries.

CRL Resources

• 6,500 international newspapers, many dating to the 1700s — the largest collection of circulating newspapers in North America.
• 4,500 U.S. newspapers, many dating to the colonial era, including 2,000 ethnic titles.
• foreign journals that are rarely held in U.S. libraries
• more than 800,000 foreign dissertations
• a rapidly growing collection of over 1 million digital resources. View highlights of the digital collections
• area studies — major microform and paper collections from Africa, Latin America, Middle East, Europe, Asia, Southeast Asia, and other world regions.
• CRL digital collections, to support teaching and research at member libraries, scanned by request

Center materials can be obtained for extended loan periods and at no cost by users affiliated with member libraries. Loans can be made for extended periods and without limitation on the format or amount of material borrowed. Arrangements to borrow CRL materials (particularly microforms) are made through interlibrary loan or one can have materials digitized on demand. In most cases, print or microform items requested from CRL should arrive within one week and items that can be delivered electronically should arrive within one week as well. In some cases, material will be digitally scanned and offered that way.

Contact query@grinnell.edu or your liaison librarian for additional help on using this resource.

The Grinnell College Libraries is pleased to support open access through its read-and-publish agreements with several publishers that produce scholarly journals. These agreements waive article processing charges (APCs) often attached to open-access publishing for Grinnell College authors. Note that Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press represent more than 800 journals from all disciplines.

Questions?

Please contact Gina Schlesselman-Tarango

To support alumni’s lifelong learning endeavors, the Grinnell College Libraries and the Office of Development and Alumni Relations are pleased to provide alumni with access to a range of academic databases including:

• JSTOR* is a digital library of academic journals.
• Project Muse is a digital library of humanities and social sciences academic journals.
• Transparent Language helps millions learn over 100 foreign languages.
• Adam Matthew publishes unique primary source collections from archives around the world.
• Credo Reference is an easy-to-use online reference tool for starting research. Gather background information on your topic from hundreds of full-text general and subject-specific reference titles, as well as numerous images, audio files, and video clips.

For more information and to access these resources, please see the Library for Alumni web page.

The Libraries Open Resources Guide has ways to help you with research.

Curious about what open educational resources exists for your subject area? Want some strategies for open pedagogy? Take advantage of the Open Curriculum Consultation form and a librarian will do research for you and bring back the resources found!  This form will allow you to decide if you are interested in open educational resources, open pedagogy, or both!  Not sure what those are? Check out the SPARC’s guide for better definitions.

The Libraries will not only give you existing resources but direct you to supporting resources for technology, funding, and more!

Questions?

Contact Kayla Reed, discovery, systems, and digital strategy librarian.