Research Guides and Class Pages: For Faculty RCL: Purchase Items

The library welcomes and encourages purchase requests for library materials to support your courses and research. You may submit requests in any of the following ways:

Please use our online Request an item for Purchase form.
Create a wishlist in Amazon and share with acq@dom.edu
Send an email directly to acq@dom.edu. Please include a link to the resource or provide as much bibliographic information as possible.
Circle items in a print catalog and send through campus mail to Acquisitions : Rebecca Crown Library (Crown 107).

Requests for databases and journals require a long term financial commitment and funds may not be immediately available, please contact Heather Parisi, 708-524-6872, hparisi@dom.edu if you are interested in the library subscribing to a database or journal.

Review Sources

The Library provides many resources that will aid in collection development. Please see the following review sources:

Choice Reviews Online
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Choice Reviews for Academic Libraries is a premier source for reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources of interest to those in higher education. Create your own profile, save searches, compile and save lists, and create alerts to be notified of each new book reviewed in your subject of interest.
Book Index with Reviews
Book Index with Reviews (BIR) is a comprehensive database that provides information on over 5 million book titles. Fiction and non-fiction titles are included in the database, in all genres.
Book Review Index Online Plus
Book Review Index Online Plus is a comprehensive guide to book reviews that includes more than 5 million review citations; it also includes more than 634,000 full-text reviews.
ARBA Online (American Reference Books Annual)
The most comprehensive, authoritative database for quality reviews of print and electronic reference works. Featuring more than 19,500 reviews of reference works, ARBAonline lets you identify and assess reference publications with confidence and ease, and enables you to keep your library collection up-to-date, maintain quality standards, and ensure depth of coverage.

For Faculty RCL

Review Sources

SOCIAL MEDIA

REBECCA CROWN LIBRARY

LIBRARY INFORMATION

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