For the third time since it's rollout, the KiltHub repository has won first place in a figshare for institutions community deposit contest. The figshare for institutions community is the world-wide community of institutions that use figshare for institutions as a repository platform, either as their data repository or as a comprehensive repository like CMU. There are 69 institutions from around the world within the figshare for institutions community.
 

New Database: Border and Migration Studies Online

Text, video, and images representing both personal and institutional perspectives, for the growing fields of border(land) studies and migration studies, as well as history, law, politics, diplomacy, area and global studies, anthropology, medicine, the arts, and more.
 

The University Libraries have added 33 historical newspapers from Proquest to its list of historical resources. Included are U. S. and international papers, as well as some Jewish and African-American ones. To access see the Libraries' Databases A-Z list, H for Historical Newspapers. To see all the newspapers the Libraries provide see the Newspapers guide.

In the latest blog post on "The Intrepid Researcher," CMU-Q Librarian A.M. Salaz dives into the complicated topic of what contributions to a research project deserve authorship credit and how contributions can be weighed.