Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels grants Penn students, staff, and faculty access to over 100,000 pages of important, rare, and hard-to-find comics and primary source materials about comics.
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"Just Make the Data Available": Exploring Manuscripts with OPenn

Launched in 2015, OPenn holds over 10,000 digitized manuscripts from over fifty institutions, all freely available to download, use, and share.
Demography journal now open access - with Penn Libraries support

The Penn Libraries support open access publishing through funding for the ejournal Demography.
The Population Association of America has moved its journal Demography to platinum open access. The journal's changeover coincides with its shift to Duke University Press from Springer Publishing.
...Continue readingMaking Lemonade out of Mrs. Lemmon: An Interview with Caroline Schimmel

Penn alum Caroline Schimmel was one of the the first rare book collectors to recognize the importance of collecting books by women talking about women.
Mega Fans and Mega Brands: Tracking Teams, Sponsorships, and Audiences with Sports Atlas

Sports Atlas is a new database that collects information about professional sports leagues, their member teams, venues, and sponsorships.
Diversity in the Stacks: Bollywood and Hindi-language Cinema

Learn about some of the films and popular Hindi film directors that you will find in the Penn Libraries collection.
An Interview with Liza Vick, President of the Music Library Association

Starting this month, Penn music library head Liza Vick takes the reins as president of the Music Library Association.
Just Launched: Global Social Responses to COVID-19 Web Archive

The Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation is pleased to announce the launch of the Global Social Responses to COVID-19 Web Archive.
From Traditional to Alternative – Religious Movements Unique to America

The core of the newly purchased Religions of America database is the J. Gordon Melton collection, now housed at UCSB. Melton, a major scholar in American religious culture, collected material on religion that most libraries would usually ignore. Ephemera concerned new religious movements that were often difficult to locate with the usual channels that libraries would have access to.
...Continue readingFeatured Books: Women's History Month

In celebration of Women’s History Month, our librarians put together a selection of books, films, and audio recordings available through the Penn Libraries.
November 2020
Copyright Free
November 2020
American Prison Newspapers, 1800-2020 : Voices From The Inside

Presenting newspapers written and published by incarcerated people from within federal and state prisons nationwide, American Prison Newspapers, 1800-2020 : Voices From The Inside aims to offer a quarter-million page-images with searchable fulltext from more than 300 prison newspaper titles when completed. The first installment of six prison newspapers is now available for reading by Penn students, faculty, and staff on the JSTOR platform.
...Continue readingAmerican Prison Newspapers, 1800-2020 : Voices From The Inside

Presenting newspapers written and published by incarcerated people from within federal and state prisons nationwide, American Prison Newspapers, 1800-2020 : Voices From The Inside aims to offer a quarter-million page-images with searchable fulltext from more than 300 prison newspaper titles when completed. The first installment of six prison newspapers is now available for reading by Penn students, faculty, and staff on the JSTOR platform.
...Continue readingTwo new ebook collections : British Archaeological Reports and Archaeopress

Two new ebook collections : British Archaeological Reports and Archaeopress

Two new ebook collections : British Archaeological Reports and Archaeopress

Southern Life, Slavery and the Civil War

In the seminal Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made, Eugene Genovese writes "The reception accorded by white America to black people brought here in chains and raised in slavery and under racist oppression has, first and foremost, provided a record of one of history's greatest crimes." Even within this brutal system, however, black people found opportunities for creativity, solidarity, love and resistance.
...Continue readingPenn Libraries Releases Strategic Plan 2020-2025

Through vision and mission statements, shared organizational values, and four core strategic priorities, the plan aligns the Libraries’ work with the Penn Compact 2022 pillars of inclusion, innovation, and impact and the University’s goal of advancing knowledge for good.
Children's Literature and Culture

Composed of vibrant archival materials ranging in genre and format from stereo photographs to sheet music, and from picture books to card games, Children’s Literature and Culture presents an expansive view of literature and print culture produced for and by children in the long nineteenth century.
...Continue readingNow Online! The Washington Post Website

Read all about it! Baby pandas, the Capital Weather Gang ... and, oh yes, the 2020 Presidential General Election. The Penn Libraries announces a new campus-wide subscription to The Washington Post website. This new subscription, live right now, uses Penn campus IP ranges and PennKey authentication
Now Online! The Washington Post Website

Read all about it! Baby pandas, the Capital Weather Gang ... and, oh yes, the 2020 Presidential General Election. The Penn Libraries announces a new campus-wide subscription to The Washington Post website. This new subscription, live right now, uses Penn campus IP ranges and PennKey authentication
Now Online! The Washington Post Website

Read all about it! Baby pandas, the Capital Weather Gang ... and, oh yes, the 2020 Presidential General Election. The Penn Libraries announces a new campus-wide subscription to The Washington Post website. This new subscription, live right now, uses Penn campus IP ranges and PennKey authentication