In 2023, the PG Library reached out to our academic community for journal recommendations. Faculty and school leadership came up with about 150 recommendations at the time. We are happy to report that we’ve made good progress on this. Around two dozen of these titles we added last spring with a set of journals from Elsevier, with some others coming in through additions in EBSCO.
In exciting news that will add even more journals to our collections today, we now have access to Sage Premier. Sage was the publisher with the most requested titles. Sage Premier not only adds the 40+ requested Sage titles made to us, but Sage’s catalog of over 1,000 peer reviewed journals. Coverage for each title starts from 1999, when applicable, and runs through the present so you have access to the latest issues of each Sage title. Sage journals will also appear in search results lists from EBSCO Discovery, so they will naturally show up when you’re researching from the library’s homepage.
With this addition, 87 of the requested titles are now available, more than cutting our list in half. However, since Sage Premier includes over 1000 titles, we’ve not only heavily addressed our requested titles wish list, but exceeded expectations and gone beyond it. We believe the new content is helpful for your studies, across all programs, whether you are a faculty or a student.
For a full list of titles added since the journal recommendation project, open this spreadsheet (Google Sheets).
If there are titles we are still missing you feel are vital to your field of teaching or study, fill out the Resource Recommendation Form.
After the end of this year, December 31, 2024, access will stop to two PG Library services.
One of those is the database Skillsoft. For users of Skillsoft, we recommend using O’Reilly, a similar resource packed with ebooks and videos on IT and business topics.
The second service is EZProxy. This service is more invisible to students and faculty using Library-licensed resources, but EZProxy is an authentication system. However, in November of last year, we migrated to OpenAthens, a modern authentication system with services and features that better fit our university’s needs. The PG Library and Curriculum & Innovation teams worked tirelessly this year to replace old links that used EZProxy with new links that used OpenAthens in Brightspace and the Library’s website and guides. This preparation enables us to let our subscription with EZProxy cease at the end of the year as well. For Library and course content in Brightspace, no action is needed on your part.
How does this affect you?
On or after December 31, 2024, if you have any saved or bookmarked links to Skillsoft or links to other resources using EZProxy (look for “libauth.purdueglobal.edu” in the URL), these links will no longer work. If you save a lot of links in documents, spreadsheets, browser bookmark tools, or citation managers, you may need to update those if they were made before November 2023. You can find information about how to link to items in our Guide to Reading Lists.
If you have any questions, please contact us.