Announcements

Drake University Joins HathiTrust

Drake University has become the newest member of HathiTrust, a global collaborative of academic and research libraries working towards its mission to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future. HathiTrust offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law, computational access to the entire corpus for scholarly research, and other emerging services based on the combined collection. HathiTrust members steward this collection under the aims of scholarly, not corporate, interests. HathiTrust holds the largest set of digitized books managed by the academic, research, and library community.

Launched in 2008, HathiTrust has a growing membership currently comprising more than two hundred libraries.

Over the last twelve years, members have contributed more than 17.5 million volumes to the digital library, digitized from their library collections through a number of means including Google and Internet Archive digitization and in-house initiatives. More than 6.9 million of the contributed volumes are in the U.S. public domain and freely viewable online. Drake’s member affiliate status allows Drake students, faculty, and staff to download full versions of these public domain volumes.

HathiTrust serves a dual role. First, as a trusted repository it guarantees the long-term preservation of the materials it holds, providing the expert curation and consistent access long associated with research libraries. Second, as a service for members and the public good, HathiTrust offers persistent access to the digital collections. This includes viewing, downloading, and searching public domain volumes, and searching access to copyrighted works. Other specialized features facilitate access by persons with print disabilities and allow users to gather subsets of the digital library into “collections” that can be searched and browsed.

“I am proud that Drake has joined HathiTrust and grateful for the partnership between Cowles Library and the Law Library that makes our membership possible,” said Jill Gremmels, Dean of Cowles Library. “HathiTrust’s commitment to an increasingly comprehensive digital archive of library materials converted from print that is co-owned and managed by academic institutions is fully consonant with our goals of free access to scholarly information for the benefit of researchers and students, not for-profit corporations. The HathiTrust corpus has great potential for teaching and learning at Drake, and we look forward to helping our students and faculty discover its riches.”

More information on HathiTrust is available at: https://www.hathitrust.org/.

Interlibrary Loan / Reserves Telephone Outage

Update – 2/4/2020: The ILL telephone number is working again.

The Interlibrary Loan telephone (271-4819) is not working due to a possible wiring problem. Drake ITS is currently working to resolve this. If you have questions about ILL, Reserves, or holds on Circulation accounts, please call 271-2111 and ask for Kris Mogle, email Kristine.mogle@drake.edu, or visit Kris’s office (104 Cowles Library).[/note]

Kanopy Access Changes

Kanopy logo Effective February 1, 2020, Cowles Library will begin mediating requests for streaming films on the Kanopy platform, and priority will be given to films requested for course use. This is a change from the more direct click-and-play access model the library has used since adopting Kanopy in fall 2017.

The model will continue to allow click-and-play access to already-licensed films until their license expiration date, and will allow new licensing requests only for course-related films.

A Difficult Decision

Increasing costs of the service led to our decision to adopt this new model. Knowing how popular this service is with our faculty and students, we struggled with this decision. We understand that click-and-play access is more convenient than mediated requests, and we do not enjoy placing restrictions on popular resources. The service’s growing popularity, however, has nearly doubled our annual expenditure for Kanopy films in the last year.

Kanopy’s Pricing Model

Unlike familiar streaming video platforms like Netflix and Hulu, which use a flat-rate subscription fee, Kanopy’s business model is based on the number of views per title, and four views of any film results in a charge to Cowles Library of $150 for a one-year license. This model is, unfortunately, unsustainable for the library as Kanopy becomes more popular and annual costs become unpredictable.

Many other libraries that use Kanopy are struggling with this same issue, as this Film Quarterly article illustrates.

Requesting Films

If you have used a Kanopy film for a course and are concerned about the license expiration, contact the library at acquisitions@drake.edu.
If you find an unlicensed Kanopy film you would like to use for a course, complete the request form on the Kanopy website as early as possible. In the message area, please let us know when you intend to use the film. The request form looks like this:

If you intend to use a film for a course, but it does not need to be streamed (e.g., you’ll show it in class vs. having students watch it on their own), contact the library at acquisitions@drake.edu to see if we can find a DVD or Blu-ray version that may be less expensive.

Kanopy License Expirations

Here is a current list of Kanopy and Swank films the library has licensed. If you do not see a film listed here, it means that we do not own a license or our license has expired.

Film Title	Expires
8 1/2	5/1/2020
1910’s	3/1/2020
A Ghost Story	11/1/2020
A Man Called Ove – En Man Som Heter Ove	1/1/2020
À nos amours	6/1/2020
A Star Is Born	10/31/2020
A Thousand Midnights – The Great Migration	11/1/2020
Abortion: Stories Women Tell – A Thought-Provoking Look at the Issue of Abortion Today	11/1/2020
Abrazos – Children of Undocumented Parents	4/1/2020
abUSed: The Postville Raid	3/1/2020
Adlerian Play Therapy – With Terry Kottman	6/30/2020
Adlerian Therapy – With Jon Carlson	10/1/2020
Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse	7/31/2020
Aimee’s Crossing – Young Women in the Juvenile Justice System	4/1/2020
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch – How Humans Have Impacted the Planet	12/31/2020
ARTS: Possibilities, Disabilities & The Arts	10/31/2020
As You Like It	5/1/2020
Ash is Purest White – Jiang hu er nü	12/31/2020
Autism in America	10/31/2020
Awakening	3/1/2020
Babakiueria	4/1/2020
Becoming a Therapist	11/30/2020
Beyond The Lights	6/1/2020
Birth Of A Movement – The Fight to Ban a Controversial Film	10/1/2020
Boy	11/1/2020
Captain Fantastic	11/1/2020
Chico & Rita	3/1/2020
Chinese Take-Away – Un Cuento Chino	6/30/2020
City Lights	11/1/2020
Cleo From 5 to 7	7/31/2020
Color Adjustment – A History of African American Portrayal on Television	4/1/2020
Concerning Violence – Nine Scenes from the Anti-Imperialistic Self-Defense	3/1/2020
Connected by Coffee – Latin American Coffee Farmers	5/1/2020
Connecting Rooms	6/30/2020
Consuming Kids – The Commercialization of Childhood	3/1/2020
Delicate Balance – Three Stories Exploring Globalization	9/1/2020
Design is One – The Story of Lella and Massimo Vignelli	5/1/2020
Detainment	11/30/2020
Dial M for Murder	12/31/2020
Digital Disconnect – Fake News, Privacy and Democracy (playlist)	4/1/2020
Divided States of America: Part 1	6/1/2020
Dogtooth – Kynodontas	3/1/2020
Don’t Get Sick After June: American Indian Healthcare	4/1/2020
Donnie Darko	5/1/2020
Down Syndrome	3/1/2020
Echo In The Canyon	11/1/2020
Eighth Grade	7/31/2020
El Bola	6/1/2020
Ethnic Notions – African American Stereotypes and Prejudice	4/1/2020
Eye in the Sky	11/30/2020
F for Fake	11/1/2020
Factory Farms	3/1/2020
Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary – The Denial of Education and Health Care to Undocumented Immigrants	6/1/2020
February One – The 1960 Greensboro Lunch Counter Sit-ins	11/30/2020
First Person Plural	10/1/2020
Five Obstructions	11/30/2020
Gestalt Therapy with Children – With Violet Oaklander	6/30/2020
Giota’s Journey – Living with Cerebral Palsy	11/1/2020
Grey Gardens	3/1/2020
Guangzhou Dream Factory – The African Community in Guangzhou, China	11/30/2020
Hamilton: One Shot to Broadway	11/30/2020
Hannah Arendt	4/1/2020
Helium	4/1/2020
Helvetica – Typography, Graphic Design and Global Visual Culture	7/31/2020
Hereditary	9/1/2020
His Girl Friday	7/31/2020
Hoop Dreams	6/1/2020
How Difficult Can This Be? F.A.T. City – A Learning Disabilities Workshop	10/31/2020
I Am Big Bird – The Life and Career of Puppet Performer Caroll Spinney	10/1/2020
I Am Not Your Negro – James Baldwin and Race in America	6/30/2020
I Married a Witch	10/1/2020
Iceman – Der Mann aus dem Eis	10/31/2020
Including Samuel – Inclusion of Children with Disabilities (playlist)	10/1/2020
Invisible Persuaders	7/31/2020
Irvin Yalom: Live Case Consultation	11/1/2020
Ixcanul	5/1/2020
Julius Caesar	3/1/2020
Ken Burns: The Central Park Five	11/30/2020
La Jetée	9/1/2020
La Notte	1/1/2020
Lady Bird	1/1/2020
Latinos Beyond Reel – Challenging a Media Stereotype (playlist)	10/31/2020
L’avventura	1/1/2020
Leaving Neverland Part 1	6/1/2020
Leaving Neverland Part 2	6/1/2020
Machuca	5/1/2020
Mardi Gras: Made in China – Globalization Gone Wild	4/1/2020
Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present	4/1/2020
Mayan Renaissance – The Untold Story of the Maya (playlist)	4/1/2020
Memento	4/1/2020
Metropolis	11/30/2020
Mickey Mouse Monopoly – Disney, Childhood & Corporate Power	10/31/2020
Miss You Can Do It – A Pageant for Girls with Special Needs	10/31/2020
Mister Rogers: It’s You I Like – A Retrospective of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood	6/30/2020
Mother Tongue – A Mayan Community re-tells its History in Ixil	5/1/2020
Obit. – The New York Times Obituary Writers	11/1/2020
Obvious Child	11/30/2020
Oldboy	3/1/2020
Paris, Texas	3/1/2020
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese through American Movies – Part I	11/1/2020
Persona	10/1/2020
Race – The Power of an Illusion (playlist)	1/1/2020
Rashomon	1/1/2020
Reel Injun – On the Trail of the Hollywood “Indian”	3/1/2020
Renacimiento de los Mayas (Spanish version of Mayan Renaissance)	3/1/2020
Room	5/1/2020
Sentenced Home – The Deportation of Cambodian Americans	11/30/2020
Seven Samurai (playlist)	6/1/2020
Show Me Democracy – Student Activism Amidst the Uprising in Ferguson	11/30/2020
Skin	10/31/2020
Solution-Focused Child Therapy – With John Murphy	7/31/2020
Speaking in Tongues – 4 Kids. 4 Languages. 1 City. 1 World.	10/1/2020
Spectrum – A Story of the Mind – The Rich Sensory Experience of Autism	10/31/2020
Stash Short Film Festival: Comedy (playlist)	11/30/2020
Super Size Me – The Fast-Food Industry in America	10/31/2020
Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken! – Investigating the Fast-Food Industry	10/1/2020
Taking Root – The Vision of Environmentalist Wangari Maathai	5/1/2020
Tehran Taboo	6/1/2020
The 400 Blows – Les quatre cents coups	6/1/2020
The Battle of Algiers	10/31/2020
The Colors of The Mountain	5/1/2020
The Conformist	7/31/2020
The Disaster Artist	10/1/2020
The Exterminating Angel	1/1/2020
The Florida Project	3/1/2020
The Garden – Fighting for an LA Urban Garden	10/31/2020
The Girl Who Played with Fire	6/1/2020
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	6/1/2020
The Hole In the Ground	10/1/2020
The Inventor – Out for Blood in Silicon Valley	10/1/2020
The Killing of a Sacred Deer	6/1/2020
The Last Time I Saw Paris	7/31/2020
The Listening Project – Young Adults Living with Hearing Loss	11/1/2020
The Little Shop of Horrors	5/1/2020
The Mask You Live In	5/1/2020
The Mean World Syndrome – Media Violence & the Cultivation of Fear	4/1/2020
The Miseducation of Cameron Post	11/30/2020
The Prosecution	10/1/2020
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth	11/1/2020
The Roaring Twenties (playlist)	4/1/2020
The Seventh Seal	4/1/2020
The Spectacular Now	11/30/2020
The Third Murder – Sandome no satsujin	9/1/2020
The Way He Looks – Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho	11/30/2020
The Wild Pear Tree – Ahlat Agaci	11/1/2020
The Winter’s Tale	10/31/2020
Turn It Around – The Story of East Bay Punk	10/1/2020
Umbrellas of Cherbourg	6/1/2020
Un Coeur en Hiver (A Heart in Winter)	7/31/2020
Urban Roots – Urban Gardens in Detroit	10/31/2020
Urbanized – The Issues and Strategies Behind Urban Design	10/31/2020
Walking Into The Unknown – Native Americans and the US Healthcare System	4/1/2020
We Need to Talk About Kevin	6/30/2020
Welcome to the Sticks – Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis	6/1/2020
What Is Democracy? – A Philosophical Journey Exploring Government	10/1/2020
What We Do In the Shadows	5/1/2020
When the Mountains Tremble – War and Revolution in Guatemala	11/30/2020
Who Cares About Kelsey? – Helping Students with Emotional and Behavioral Challenges Succeed (playlist)	10/1/2020
Winter Sleep	3/1/2020

Complete the Faculty Survey to help the library

Ithaka S+R logo On Thursday, October 25th, all Drake faculty received an invitation from Provost Mattison to participate in Drake University’s version of the Ithaka Faculty Survey, an important study of the impact of digital technologies on research, teaching, and publishing. Survey responses will help to direct the initiatives of Cowles Library’s continuous improvement plan and inform campus planning and decision-making with respect to research and teaching resources.

The survey seeks faculty perspective on a range of topics, including how faculty engage with and perceive the library. In particular, this survey will help the library gain insight into how our faculty members teach and conduct research in a rapidly changing and increasingly digital environment.

We know you are very busy and probably suffering from survey fatigue, but please consider giving the library 20-25 minutes of your time to take this survey. You do not need to complete the survey in one sitting. Any progress is automatically saved, and you can pick up where you left off. You will need to refer to Provost Mattison’s October 25th email message for the survey link.

General information about the National Ithaka Faculty Survey can be found at the Ithaka S+R website. Please direct any questions to the Cowles Library Planning & Assessment Committee, cowles-assessment@drake.edu.

Thank you!

E-Book Survey

Cowles Library is partnering with several Iowa academic libraries to gather faculty and student feedback regarding their use of and attitudes toward academic e-books, and we’d like to hear from you!

The survey is anonymous and only takes about 5 minutes.
Responses will be accepted until December 8, 2017.
The results will help the library make better decisions about book and e-book purchases.
If you are a current Drake student, completing the survey makes you eligible to win one of six $25 prizes (that’s cash!).

Take me to the survey!

Problematic links to Springer ebooks

Update: This issue was fixed on 10/1/2017.

The problem and temporary workaround are described in this FAQ. We hope to have the issue resolved shortly.

Access to New York Times for all Drake students, staff, and Faculty!

Below is the first in an ongoing series of Cowles Library posts on Resources and Services we provide to all Drake faculty, students, and staff.

Drake University students, faculty, and staff can now receive online access to the New York Times through its web site via a subscription paid for by Cowles Library. Note that, for initial signup, you MUST be on the Drake campus, but after that, you can access the NY Times anywhere! Details are at this helpful site: http://researchguides.drake.edu/nyt

Next resource/service: The Chronicle of Higher Education

Value Line available online at Drake!

Cowles Library recently replaced its print subscription to ValueLine with the online version, available from anywhere!

For would-be stock pickers, Value Line provides an easy way to start your research. Of interest to those in CBPA, but also to anyone who wants to get more financial background on a specific publicly-traded company.

Cowles has the “basic” version, so if you have questions about functionality, please contact us at reference.drake.edu or call x2113.

Free access to articles by 2013 Nobel Prize Laureates

Elsevier is providing free full-text access to a variety of articles by Nobel Prize Laureates in the following categories:

Links to Copyright Info

Here’s a link to my Copyright Research Guide (found under Help – Services for Faculty) http://researchguides.drake.edu/copyright