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Library Pandemic Resources includes additional ebook resources available during the COVID-19 disruption.
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INTERSESSION HOURS
December 10 – January 2
Sunday 4pm – 10pm
Monday-Thursday 7:30am – 10pm
Friday 7:30am - 5pm
Saturday noon - 5pm
CLOSED: Dec 24-25, 27, 31, Jan 1
David Stern, the Library Director since 2014, will retire on December 31, 2021. After that date, please direct all administrative communications to Caitlin Archer-Helke, the Interim Library Director. archerhelke@sxu.edu or 773-298-3357 (December, 2021)
The library now subscribes to Arte Publico: Hispanic Historical Collection: Series 1/2 which contains primary materials from a wide range of journals, newspapers, and unique historical documents. (March, 2021)
The library now subscribes to African American Historical Serials which contains primary materials from a wide range of journals, newspapers, and unique historical documents such as diaries and church sermons. (March, 2021)
Ethnic NewsWatch. Articles from ethnic and alternative journals, magazines, and newspapers.
Newspaper Source. Articles from regional United States newspapers, international newspapers, and newswires.
Nexis Uni Legal and business emphasis from journal articles, newspapers (including the New York Times since 2002), wire services, broadcast transcripts, United States federal and state case law.
Academic Video Online. Online streaming video on many academic topics, including: American history, area studies, counseling and therapy, criminal justice, ethnic studies, ethnography, nursing, philosophy and religious studies, science, world history, and world languages and literature.
SimplyAnalytics. is a web-based mapping, analytics and data visualization program providing 65,000+ data variables. Users have access to demographics (census data), marketing data, consumer behavior (purchasing and product usage data including Consumer Expenditures), market segments, health, and businesses (points-of-interest, establishments, employees, retail sales) for States, Congressional Districts, Counties, Cities/Places, ZIP Codes, Census Tracts and Block Groups. Users can rank locations based on variables, create demographic analyses, map variables and also export data, maps, reports and GIS shapefiles for use outside of SimplyAnalytics. If you sign in as a guest, you won’t need to create an account. Accounts are needed only to save search parameters and data results. analyses, and map variables to the county or sometimes the census Block. If you sign in as a guest, you won’t need to create an account. Accounts are needed only to save search parameters and data results. (Information and help video page.)
Our new resolver links our index records to thousands of interdisciplinary journals. This means there is a new way to connect to journal articles from within our EBSCOhost databases (Academic Search Complete, CINAHL, Business Source Complete, and Education Resources Complete) to our subscriptions. (July, 2020)
The new Central Index database will replace many subject journal indexes: PsychINFO, Philosophers Index, ATLA Religion Index, MLA, America: History and Life, SciFinder Scholar, Communications and Mass Media, and the Multidatabase Search tool. The tool covers thousands of interdisciplinary journals and many additional ebook and web materials. It is not comprehensive, but it does cover many disciplines. (July, 2020)