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The current crisis has caused unexpected and undue hardship for countless individuals and families. Every U.S. state provides its citizens with a variety of social service programs and benefits, however, it can be difficult to locate information to these services because states structure them in different ways. The purpose of a new Social Services Resources guide is to make it easier for you to find social service programs in your area.  Links lead to health, housing, nutrition, and other assistance programs in each state, as well as links to national sources and program search tools. To find services in your area, visit the Social Services Resources guide.  

About My EBSCOhost Personalization Accounts

Want to get the most out of using EBSCO Discovery Service, EBSCO eBooks and other EBSCO databases like Academic Search Complete?  Creating a FREE My EBSCOhost account can help save you time in your research and enable options to personalize your search experience.  Whenever you sign in to any of EBSCO's resources and databases, you will be able to save search results, persistent links to searches, search alerts, journal alerts, and web pages to your personal My EBSCOhost folder.

The Best Way to Sign-in: Your Google Account

Now you can sign in with a Google account, including your PG email (@student.purdueglobal.edu for students or @purdueglobal.edu for faculty and staff). 

To enable this, after accessing EBSCO databases or EBSCO Discovery Service using your PG Campus account:

1. Click Sign In in the toolbar at the top

2. Click the Sign in with Google option when prompted.  

Bonus feature: Sign-in with Google for up to 1 year! 

Signing in with Google once after logging in with your PG Campus account will allow you to sign in with just Google for up to 1 year!  This is a great feature for power users especially.  Just visit search.ebscohost.com as a starting point to take advantage of this option, instead of the library's homepage after your first sign in.  This allows you to sign in with just one link and automatically see your personalized folders and research.  

For more details and documentation visit our F.A.Q.

To keep up to date with this feature in EBSCO, as well as see links to a video and further documentation, visit the PG Library's F.A.Q. on My EBSCOhost accounts.  

News media on the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has been inescapable.  Students, faculty, and other researchers in our community may be looking for official statements and guidance, as well as the latest research.  This blog post links to official federal, state, and local information resources to keep updated on official statements and guidance. For researchers, there are also links to some of the scientific research made freely available by publishers and journals.  

Federal, state, and local government information

The CDC website is an excellent place to go for information about COVID 19.  Visit the CDC’s Coronavirus (COVID-19) site.
 

You can also find state health department websites from the CDC’s website as well.  Visit the CDC's State & Territorial Health Department Websites page.  
 

Your local government will also have information.  To find state, country, or city government sites, visit the Local Governments page from the USA.gov website and choose your state from the dropdown list.  

Your governor's website will have information for your state.  The National Governors Association allows you to browse by state for your governor and links to information and websites.  Visit the National Governors Association website. 

Publisher and Library Vendor Resources

Some general research information has been made available by library resource vendors.  
 

EBSCO has made helpful information about COVID-19 and Coronavirus from their DynaMed® medical product available for everyone to view and share.  Visit EBSCO’s site here.
 

Gale has enabled free access to their Gale In Context: College database.  Gale In Context: College offers interdisciplinary content that reinforces the development of skills such as critical thinking, problem-solving, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation.
 

For researchers, many publishers and journals have posted research and content freely on their sites, often on special portals dedicated to Coronavirus (Covid-19) research.  Below are a few of these publishers and journals:
 

British Medical Journal

Elsevier (ScienceDirect)

New England Journal of Medicine

Oxford Journals

Springer Nature
 

Should any article not be available, researchers can contact the library about document delivery/interlibrary loan options.  Visit the PG Library’s Document Delivery page.

Update - March 31, 2020:

From ProQuest: "On March 31, we released Coronavirus Research Database...ProQuest built this database in response to the rapidly growing need for authoritative content related to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). We’re working together with institutions all over the world to offer support as they navigate through the coronavirus pandemic, and this launch of the Coronavirus Research Database is the latest in a series of programs to help librarians, faculty and students."

Search ProQuest's Coronavirus database now.