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For some users, EBSCO Discovery and EBSCO databases can result in an error message when using OpenAthens to authenticate. You may see an OpenAthens error message of "Looping - SP redirecting back to the login point" when trying to authenticate. We are aware of the issue and working with EBSCO and OpenAthens support on a resolution. At this time, no other databases are affected.

We have confirmation from several students that clearing cookies in Chrome resolved the issue for them. Here are the steps to follow: 

• In Google Chrome, at the top right, click the "three dots" menu and then choose the option to "Delete Browsing Data." 
• In the next window, click the option to delete "Cookies and other site data." 
• Click the "Delete Data" button.
• Restart Google Chrome (fully close it and reopen it).
• Navigate directly to library.purdueglobal.edu and then conduct a search with the search box on our homepage. The search box leads to EBSCO Discovery. 

You can find more information about clearing cookies and using Chrome's Incognito mode on the Library's FAQ. Read the "How do I clear cookies or use Chrome's Incognito Mode?" FAQ. Incognito mode is a good second step to try, as it not only blocks cookies but also plugins, and while not confirmed, a plugin like an ad-blocker may be causing the issue. 

If clearing cookies and the above doesn't help, use these alternative links to EBSCO Discovery and EBSCO databases to conduct your research:

• Access EBSCO Discovery (New interface)
• Access EBSCOhost Databases (Old interface)

If you still cannot access EBSCO content, please contact the library with the following information:

• Your operating system (Windows 11 or MacOS)
• Browser (Chrome, Edge, etc.)
• Internet Service Provider (Xfinity, RCN, Optimum, etc.)
• Troubleshooting that you tried already

We apologize for the inconvenience caused to anyone affected. 

O’Reilly for Higher Education, a resource with e-books and videos primarily focused on information technology and business, has updated its authentication for compatibility with OpenAthens. OpenAthens is what almost all other library resources use to authenticate. The update will be primarily behind-the-scenes to you, but you should experience quicker load times and increased stability. 

The most significant change for most students will be the ability to use O’Reilly’s mobile apps. The apps are downloadable from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. For links, see O’Reilly’s page on apps.

Once downloaded, enter your student email (the one ending in @student.purdueglobal.edu). You will then see the regular OpenAthens login options you see anytime you authenticate with a PG Library resource. Follow the prompts, and you’ll have access to all of O’Reilly’s content through the app. 

Do you just want to use the normal web interface? Visit O’Reilly for Higher Education.

What's new?

Mergent Market Atlas replaces Mergent Online as your first destination for public company information and research. The interface is updated and much easier to use, while still providing in-depth information about public companies, industries, countries, and more. 

Use Market Atlas to search for public companies based on name, location, industry, or fundamental data factors, then refine your report output and drill into companies for further research. Additional company search features allow you to explore sustainability, SEC filings, annual reports, independent research, and an extensive library of company reports.

What company content is available through Market Atlas?

• Reuters global fundamentals – deep and timely financial content including standardized and as reported financials, along with accompanying fundamental ratios.
• Refinitiv global equity end of day pricing and consensus estimate data, FTSE Russell Index returns and ICB classification data.
• Refinitiv reference data sets – business descriptions and contact information, executive biographies and compensation data.
• FTSE Russell ESG Reports, Mergent Independent research reports, Mergent fundamental reports, SEC filings, company annual reports, company sustainability reports, institutional and insider holdings data, company news.

What type of companies are included?

• Global, active public companies.

What additional non-company content is available through Market Atlas?

• FTSE Russell index total return data
• Mergent economic time series data
• Mergent industry reports
• Dunn & Bradstreet Country Risk Profile and Country RiskLine reports.

How do I get to it? 

Access Mergent Market Atlas now.
 

The PG Library is excited to announce expanded availability for research and reference assistance to better support your academic needs. Our new hours and availability are detailed below.

Email Assistance:

• Responses from PG librarians within 1 business day, Monday - Saturday

• Every effort made to answer queries received before 5 PM ET on the same day, Monday - Friday

• Saturday morning queries sent before 1 PM ET will be addressed the same day

Live Chat Assistance:

• PG librarians available Monday-Tuesday 11 AM - 9 PM ET, Wednesday-Friday 10 AM - 6 PM ET

• After-hours and weekend chat coverage now provided 24/7 by our worldwide librarian cooperative

Purdue Global participates in a librarian cooperative, which makes access to research assistance possible day or night! Don't hesitate to reach out with your research questions. If the cooperative librarian can't answer your question, they will create a ticket and a PG librarian will follow up with you by email as soon as possible.

The PG Library has added two dozen journals covering multiple disciplines to our collections. The titles are from the publisher Elsevier on their ScienceDirect platform. The new titles will appear in EBSCO Discovery search results and you can look up titles using the Publication Finder tool.

Below is a list of all recently acquired journals.

Business

• Business Horizons
• Journal of Business Research
• Journal of Business Venturing
• The Leadership Quarterly
• Research in International Business and Finance

Criminal Justice

• Journal of Criminal Justice

Education

• Computers & Education
• Contemporary Educational Psychology
• Developmental Review
• Educational Research Review
• The Internet and Higher Education
• Teaching and Teacher Education

Health & Nursing

• Applied Nursing Research
• Archives of Psychiatric Nursing
• Clinical Nutrition
• Clinical Simulation in Nursing
• International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health
• International Journal of Nursing Studies
• Journal of Adolescent Health
• Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
• Journal of Nursing Regulation
• Journal of Pediatric Nursing
• Nurse Education Today
• Teaching and Learning in Nursing

Psychology

• Clinical Psychology Review

On November 15, 2023, you will see a revised library website and a new version of EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). You don’t need to wait to see the new website and new EDS, however, you can preview them today!

The largest change you’ll see is from the new EDS. New EDS features include:

• Ground-up redevelopment of EDS.

• Improved search and interface usability.

• Concept map feature to help develop a search strategy.

• New Publication Finder interface to locate specific journals, books, or other publications.

• Enhanced "MyEBSCO" account profile features, including project folders. 

Interested in taking a look? 

Access the New EDS today.

Read more about New EDS and view training videos.

You can also preview what the new PG Library website will look like. The new website has improved navigation and features based on feedback from students and faculty. It also integrates the new version of EDS. Please note this site is a preview and that some links may not work as you expect. We don’t advise bookmarking any pages for future reference. 

Preview the new PG Library website. 

Some items of note:

• The new authentication system, OpenAthens, will now allow all faculty and staff to login to Library resources using their OneLogin credentials. Students will continue to use their PG Campus credentials.
• The change to OpenAthens and to the new EDS will require most links in courses to need to be updated. The Library is working with Curriculum on a plan. All current links in courses will still work post-migration.
• MyEBSCO and ProQuest eBook Central user accounts will not migrate automatically to the new system. Read the "How to Merge Personal User Accounts" FAQ from EBSCO for details. Note this only applies to MyEBSCO accounts with a unique username and password, unfortunately, those made with Gmail SSO cannot migrate and users will need to export their saved content. For ProQuest eBook Central enthusiasts, read how to export items.
• While unavailable at launch, EBSCO is now testing AI features for future incorporation like natural language search, improved evaluation of search results through summaries and key insights, and conversational interactivity with source documents.

We will launch the new EDS, new website, and a new underlying technology to authenticate you into resources called OpenAthens, on November 15, 2023. Stay tuned for more as we get closer! 

Today you may notice a new link when using EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS), the search box on our homepage. In addition to the Full Text Finder link you see when EDS is linking out to sources external to EBSCO, like from ProQuest, HeinOnline, or other publishers and vendors, you'll now see a Locate Full Text link for articles. The Locate Full Text link is powered by LibKey, a tool that helps quickly connect you to articles, whether they're in a library database or published for free online. 

The way it works is as follows:

• Click the Locate Full Text link.
• In a new browser tab, you'll see see either:
  • A LibKey page with a direct link to the article.
  • EBSCO's Full Text Finder tool as a backup, for instances when LibKey can't find it.

After the first time you see the LibKey page in a session, you can actually tell it to remember your preferences, and it will just forward you to the article with no intermediary page. This should save you a lot of time finding the full text of articles, as EBSCO's native Full Text Finder tool sometimes could only link to a journal's homepage, for instance. If LibKey knows where the article is it will always bring you directly to it. 

LibKey also has a browser plugin called LibKey Nomad that will help link to the full text of works when browsing websites and search engines like Google Scholar and Wikipedia. Visit the LibKey Nomad information page for more on this plugin. 

Additionally, LibKey has a companion tool called BrowZine, which offers a different way to browse through journals available from the PG Library's subscriptions. Visit the BrowZine homepage. 

More training on these tools will be available in the future, but we wanted to enable them as quickly as possible to help you get to the resources you need more efficiently. Please reach out to the library staff if you have any questions.

The PG Library is happy to announce enhancements to two existing databases, plus the addition of a new database from EBSCO. These resources are linked to in various places on our website and now appear when searching EBSCO Discovery Service, the search tool on our homepage.

New Database: Education Source

Education Source includes 677 active full-text, non-open access journals (540 peer reviewed) in a research database designed for education students, professionals, and policymakers. In addition to full-text journals, Education Source includes more than 4,100 full-text education-related conference papers. Education Source also includes a collection of more than 390 videos from SimpleK12 to provide practical online teacher training that addresses the evolving landscape of education. Access Education Source. 

Updated Resource: MEDLINE Ultimate

The most comprehensive companion to the MEDLINE index, MEDLINE Ultimate (previously MEDLINE Complete) offers the largest collection of top-tier biomedical journals, many with no embargo, to provide you with access to the information as soon as it is published. MEDLINE Ultimate also includes Ahead of Print content for relevant titles from key publishers and MEDLINE Ultimate Subject Headings help users effectively search and retrieve information and follow the structure of the Medical Subject headings (MeSH) used by the National Library of Medicine. It includes approximately 1,650 active full-text, non-open access journals (1,605 peer reviewed). Access MEDLINE Ultimate.

Updated Resource: CINAHL Ultimate

The ultimate research tool for nursing and allied health studies, CINAHL Ultimate (previously CINAHL with Full Text) provides fast and easy access to top journals, evidence-based care sheets, quick lessons and continuing education modules.  It covers more than 50 nursing specialties and includes quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, CEU modules and research instruments. CINAHL Subject Headings help users effectively search and retrieve information and follow the structure of the Medical Subject headings (MeSH) used by the National Library of Medicine. CINAHL Ultimate includes 935 active full-text, non-open access journals (725 peer reviewed). Access CINAHL Ultimate.

Maintenance Window for EBSCO Resources

Unrelated to these updates, please also be aware that EBSCO will be performing maintenance to authentication and personal user account functionality this weekend. During this time, users may experience some issues accessing EBSCO resources, including EBSCO Discovery Service. The maintenance period will be Saturday, April 29 from 6:00 AM - 9:00 AM ET.

You now have access to SAGE Video, in addition to SAGE Research Methods added earlier this year. SAGE Video showcases highly relevant educational videos across key social, behavioral, and health science disciplines. Categories include business, counseling, criminal justice, education, nursing, and more. Each collection includes a breadth of video types to support diverse learning and research needs. All videos are fully citeable with searchable transcripts, custom clip creation, and embedding, and include other video player features that make implementing video into the classroom and for independent use, user-friendly and easily accessible.

Our access to SAGE Video is unique, as we have access to all videos on the SAGE Video platform from 06/01/2022 - 05/31/2023. Purdue Global will be in an evaluation period with SAGE Video during this time, with all videos made accessible to all users. After the evaluation period is over, the most-used videos will be kept permanently, which we estimate to be around the top 400+.

If you are a faculty course lead and select a SAGE video for use in your course, please contact the PG Library and let us know so we can guarantee its inclusion after the evaluation period is over, though we should be able to track this via usage reports. 

Access SAGE Video anytime with this link:

library.purdueglobal.edu/sagevideo

Available to all students, faculty, and staff, Mergent Online is the most robust company research tool available in the PG Library today. It offers a wealth of textual detail on company descriptions, history, property, subsidiaries, officers and directors, long-term debt, and capital stock. Powerful intuitive search capabilities combined with an easy-to-use interface, access to risk, ratings, credit information, and recommendations under one platform, make Mergent Online a perfect resource for your financial and business information research needs.

Access Mergent Online anytime with this link:

library.purdueglobal.edu/mergent

For more on Mergent Online, including tips on conducting basic company searches and creating company lists, visit our Guide to Mergent Online.

SAGE Research Methods contains information suited to all levels of researchers, from beginners starting their first projects to the most senior faculty. Content includes dictionary and encyclopedia entries, book chapters, full books, articles, videos, and the complete Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences (Little Green Books) and Qualitative Research Methods series (Little Blue Books). You also have access to a project planner and modules on foundational concepts and data visualization. For more information on SAGE Research methods, visit our guide.

Access SAGE Research Methods anytime with this link:

library.purdueglobal.edu/srm

Now available in the PG Library! Issues & Controversies, from Infobase Learning and Facts on File, offers extensive, exclusive, and objective analysis of hundreds of today's hot topics and conflicts by presenting the key facts, arguments, history, and current context of today's most critical issues, along with a wealth of primary sources, videos, and relevant media coverage, making it an ideal resource for research papers, debate preparation, and persuasive writing assignments.

A cross-curricular resource, Issues & Controversies provides in-depth coverage of hot-button issues related to business, culture, education, health, media, politics, science, technology, and much more. Each article presents both sides of an issue clearly and without bias to inspire thought-provoking discussions. Entries begin with a "Pro/Con Article," and depending on the topic, the resources include primary sources, court cases, podcasts, videos, infographics, editorials, and news articles. 

You can access Issues & Controversies now at library.purdueglobal.edu/fof_issues

The PG Library is thrilled to announce we now have access to additional resources from ProQuest, creating a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary research tool that now offers more than "just" articles. This comprehensive research point starts with ProQuest Central (which the PG Library has had for years). It adds three new components: Academic Video Online with 70,000 video titles spanning a wide range of subjects, eBook Central with an estimated 90,000 new titles (200,000+ total), and Dissertations & Theses Global with over 2.5 million dissertations and theses from universities around the world.  

All links to "ProQuest Central" will be re-labeled to just "ProQuest" to represent the comprehensiveness of the platform and allow for future additions to integrate with this central link seamlessly.

• Access the improved and enhanced ProQuest now.

You can also visit the individual new components with the links below.

• Academic Video Online
• eBook Central
• Dissertations & Theses Global

This package of resources is also known as ProQuest One Academic. Below is an infographic with more details on the components of our newly enhanced version of ProQuest. 

Additionally, we now have access to ProQuest Statistical Insight, a separate database that provides abstracting, indexing, and full text for publications from hundreds of public domain and licensed sources. The Statistical Insight Collection spans millions of full-text reports and more than 1 million published tables on thousands of different topics. It provides fast and easy access to statistical information produced by U.S. federal agencies, states, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations. It also offers broad perspectives and insight on long-term national trends and implications paired with the ability to narrow results. Whether users are looking for tables, statistical reports, publication abstracts, or datasets, results are ranked by relevance.

• Access ProQuest Statistical Insight.

The PG Library is incredibly excited to announce that we have added four new resources to our collections. This is in addition to IBISWorld added last month. All combined, these resources help the Library better fulfill its mission to connect our community to the information they need. In particular, this set of resources focuses on providing statistical and ready reference information, helping to answer foundational questions about topics, and providing the data needed to practice necessary skills like analyzing trends and interpreting statistics. The resources are available immediately, and links have been added to our Databases A-Z page and integrated into EBSCO Discovery Service where possible.

Below are details about the new resources and bookmarkable links to each. 

Statista is a leading provider of market and consumer data. Find statistics, reports, infographics, and more to support your research and integrate charts, graphs, and other visuals into your reports and presentations. Highlights of Statista:

• User-friendly interface.

• Presentation-ready data visualizations.

• Huge, constantly updated collection spanning across topics and disciplines, from business to criminal justice.

• Used and trusted by large companies, not just academic institutions.

Access at library.purdueglobal.edu/statista

Looking for a scholarly Wikipedia alternative? Credo Reference provides access to over 2,000,000 reference entries from all the major academic subject areas to offer a great starting point for your research! Tons of images, audio files, videos, and full-text articles on a comprehensive list of topics, all with full citations. Other highlights include a selection of Pro/Con articles and a "mind map" tool to help explore topics.

Access at library.purdueglobal.edu/credoreference

Films on Demand offers a large multidisciplinary collection of streaming videos from top content providers like BBC, Cambridge Educational, National Geographic, PBS, and TED. Highlights include unlimited access to acclaimed documentaries, award-winning educational films, and helpful instructional videos. The total video library amounts to 341,000+ video clips / 45,000+ full-length videos / 28,000+ hours of content.

Access at library.purdueglobal.edu/fod

Writer’s Reference Center provides users with a convenient one-stop location for all of the tools necessary to write and research effectively. From the mechanics of writing and grammar to style and research, this indispensable online resource thoroughly covers the fundamentals of quality writing, provides a wealth of vocabulary-building dictionaries, and presents a step-by-step guide to writing a good essay. An in-depth grammar section defines grammatical terms and gives examples of use, while another section explores writing style. Writing resources teach users how best to revise their work, and the intuitive design allows users to find relevant information quickly through customizable searches and browsing.

Access at library.purdueglobal.edu/writersrefcenter

Please reach out to the PG Library should you have any questions about these new resources. Look forward to guides and other training materials in the coming weeks. 

Gain a quick and intelligent overview of thousands of industries with IBISWorld. Features include:

• Comprehensive data and analysis of industries that is easy to read and digest.
• Copy & paste charts, graphs and images for use in presentations and assignments.
• Individual reports are 30-40 pages and all follow the same table of contents.
• Can download reports as PDF or Word document, or output all data tables into an Excel file.
• Reports are updated frequently by over 100 in-house analysts. 

Access IBISWorld now at library.purdueglobal.edu/ibisworld

Want to know more about IBISWorld? Read our Guide to IBISWorld. 

Downloading short passages has always been possible, but starting today (December 2, 2021), full digital downloads of ebooks from EBSCO are available. You can download ebooks in their entirety by clicking the Full Download link in EBSCO Discovery Service or the EBSCO eBooks database. 

For many titles, you will simply be able to download a PDF or EPUB version of the book in one download.  However, since the downloads are for an entire book, there is a limit to the download duration for most books, so for these titles you can also think of it as a digital checkout or borrowing of the ebook. Additionally, for most books, it requires using a MyEBSCO account or logging in with your PG Google account and either Adobe Digital Editions (for PC/Mac and mobile) or the official EBSCO app (Apple iOS/iPadOS and Android). It may take some setup the first time you use it, but if there are specific titles you will use heavily during your current course, it may be worth the extra bit of effort to download the title to either the Adobe or EBSCO apps.  The options available to you will appear when you click the Full Download link.  

For more information, see our FAQ entry How do I use the "Full Download" link in EBSCO eBooks?

You've seen a lot of resource trials from us this summer and we have the final two planned for 2021 now available to all PG students, faculty, and staff.  

Trial available through October 30, 2021! SAGE Research Methods contains information suited to all levels of researchers, from undergrads starting their first projects to the most senior faculty. Content includes dictionary and encyclopedia entries, book chapters, full books, journal articles, and the complete Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences (Little Green Books) and Qualitative Research Methods series (Little Blue Books). You also have access to case studies from the SAGE Research Methods Cases collection, downloadable sample datasets from SAGE Research Methods Datasets, and streaming video from SAGE Research Methods Video.

Visit Sage Research Methods.

Tell us what you think by filling out the feedback form for this trial.

Also available is Data Planet from Sage, the largest repository of standardized and structured statistical data available. Data Planet is a web-based research solutions tool that provides fast and easy access to data from licensed and public domain datasets within an easy-to-use interface. With this dynamic tool, you can scan the contents of the collection, select subjects and variables of interest, and view your data in side-by-side tables and charts. 

The Data Planet repository contains more than 157 billion data points from 12.6 billion datasets sourced from 80+ source organizations. There are billions of charts, maps, views, rankings, time series and tables available for use in the Data Planet repository. All of the data have been standardized and structured, and are described with up to 37 fields of metadata, including a controlled vocabulary.  

Visit DataPlanet.

Review Sage's guide to Data Planet for tips and information on how to use it. 

Tell us what you think by filling out the feedback form for this trial.

There are new features to the APA's Academic Writer tool available through the PG Library.  Highlights include: 

• Learning Commons FAQs

• Orientation Lessons

• Version History

• Grammar Check

• Reference Tagging

More information and details are below:

If you haven’t logged into Academic Writer, or if you’re a new user, there are some helpful new features that will enhance your Academic Writer experience.

After logging into Academic Writer, select the drop-down menu from the Welcome link. Clicking on Site Help will open a new window where you can access immediate answers to the most frequently asked questions about how to use Academic Writer. Browse through the articles, or enter your search terms to find articles relevant to your question. 

Please note that Site Help is not a knowledge base of APA style questions, but rather it is a knowledge base about using Academic Writer. 

Back to the drop-down menu, clicking on Orientation will provide you with various quick guides and tutorials about how to use Academic Writer. Selecting Getting Started with Academic Writer will show you how to navigate and use the site, while selecting Writing in Academic Writer will provide detailed guidance about how to use the Writing Center. Please note that both of these links are also available directly on the homepage, too, for quick and easy access. 

Selecting My Papers from the My File Cabinet drop-down menu will bring you to a great new tool allowing you to browse version histories of your paper. This can be especially helpful if content failed to save or was lost. Version history enables you to view and revert to previous versions of your paper. Using the comparison screen allows you to compare previous versions with the current version of your paper. 

If you’ve used Academic Writer in the past, you may be aware of the spell checker feature, but if you haven’t logged in to your account in a while, you may not be aware of the new grammar check feature! Much like the grammar checker in a Word document, Academic Writer underlines words and phrases to flag possible errors. This is a default feature, but if it becomes distracting, it can be turned off by click on the ABC button:

Finally, Academic Writer now provides an easy new way of organizing and tracking your references. Tagging is Academic Writer’s answer to folders. Tags can be added as you create your references and are then visible in your References list. Tags can also be searched by keyword in the top right search bar. If you want to go back and add tags to previously created references, simply click on the edit icon next to your desired reference, and then add your tags. Keep in mind that you can add multiple tags to a reference; just separate them by a comma. 

We hope you find these new features helpful. To start using them, visit Academic Writer. 

Library resource trial season continues!

Available now through October 15, 2021, is Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints delivers credible facts and current insight into today’s most debated political and social issues. You’ll find viewpoints, reference articles, videos, and infographics analyzing current events, economics, environmental issues, political science, and more. Use the authoritative coverage within Opposing Viewpoints to build your understanding, and draw your own conclusions about complex issues.

Visit Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints.

The PG Library greatly values the feedback of our students, faculty, and staff. To tell us what you think about this resource, fill out our Opposing Viewpoints Trial Feedback form.

For a strong starting point for finding resources related to diversity, equity, and inclusion available in the PG Library, visit the new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Resources Guide. Each section includes title recommendations, pointing to relevant journal and book titles. Sections include Inclusion, Ethnicity, Women, LGBTQA+, and more.  

In addition, the PG Library has added the DEI e-Book Collection (320+ e-books) from IGI Global that provides an essential resource for researchers studying how to enhance an institution's DEI efforts. Researchers can access the collection, plus additional titles acquired from IGI Global, at library.purdueglobal.edu/igibooks

Now through September 30, 2021 PG faculty, students, and staff have access to the following additional resource trials:

• Mergent Intellect: Mergent Intellect is a highly flexible web-based application that features a deep collection of worldwide business information that enables companies to generate insightful business intelligence. Coupling Mergent's expertise in developing products for the reference marketplace with D&B®'s private company database, Mergent Intellect offers new and existing clients a unique opportunity to access private and public U.S and international business data, industry news, facts and figures, executive contact information, the ability to access industry profiles and much more.
  • Access Mergent Intellect.
  • Give feedback. 
• Mergent Online: Mergent Online offers a wealth of textual detail on descriptions, history, property, subsidiaries, officers and directors, long term debt and capital stock. Powerful intuitive search capabilities combined with an easy to use interface, access to risk, ratings, credit information and recommendations under one platform, make Mergent Online a perfect resource for your financial and business information research needs. 
  • Access Mergent Online.
  • Give feedback (this is the same form as Mergent Intellect, so you can give feedback to both at the same time).
• ProQuest Statistical Insight: ProQuest Statistical Insight provides abstracting, indexing, and full text for publications from hundreds of public domain and licensed sources. The Statistical Insight Collection spans millions of full-text reports and more than 1 million published tables on thousands of different topics. It provides fast and easy access to statistical information produced by U.S. federal agencies, states, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations. It also offers broad perspectives and insight on long-term national trends and implications paired with the ability to narrow results. Whether users are looking for tables, statistical reports, publication abstracts, or datasets, results are ranked by relevance.
  • Access ProQuest Statistical Insight.
  • Give feedback.

To see other trials or new databases in the PG Library, visit our Databases A-Z hub. 

Gain a quick and intelligent overview of thousands of global industries with IBISWorld.

According to IBISWorld, the features include:

• Comprehensive data and analysis that is easy to read and digest
• Reports available that cover industries in the US, Canada, Australia, Germany, UK and New Zealand
• Copy & paste our charts, graphs and images for use in presentations and decks
• Individual reports are 30-40 pages and all follow the same table of contents
• All reports available with subscription to our online library, plus the option to download as a PDF
• Reports updated frequently

Access IBISWorld now at library.purdueglobal.edu/ibisworld

The PG Library greatly values the feedback of our students, faculty, and staff. To tell us what you think about any of these databases, fill out our IBISWorld Trial Feedback form. Trial access is through September 30, 2021.

We need your feedback! 

The PG Library will be running several product trials this summer. We need feedback from students, faculty, chairs, and other university staff and administrators to help with our collection development and decision making.  

Currently running for the next few weeks are the following:

Statista is a leading provider of market and consumer data. Find statistics, reports, infographics, and more to support your research. Features user-friendly interface and features to help you integrate charts, graphs, and other visuals into your reports and presentations. Access at library.purdueglobal.edu/statista

This resource has trial access through August 6, 2021. Help the PG Library decide if it should be added to our resources. Fill out the feedback form.

Looking for a scholarly Wikipedia alternative? Credo Reference offers over 2,000,000 reference entries from all the major academic subject areas to offer a great starting point for your research! Tons of images, audio files, videos, and full-text articles on a comprehensive list of topics, all with full citations. Access at library.purdueglobal.edu/credoreference

This resource has trial access through August 13, 2021. Fill out the feedback form.

Films on Demand offers a large multidisciplinary collection of streaming videos from top content providers like BBC, Cambridge Educational, National Geographic, PBS, and TED. Access at library.purdueglobal.edu/fod

This resource has trial access through August 13, 2021. Fill out the feedback form.

What’s happening? 

Starting today, EBSCO’s Business Source Complete has been upgraded to Business Source Ultimate.  

How do I start using this resource?

Access to Business Source Ultimate is at the same link as before: 

library.purdueglobal.edu/businesssource

What does that mean?

The Ultimate edition of Business Source adds more active peer-reviewed full-text journals, more top business publications, more business videos, Standard & Poor’s Industry Surveys, and ahead-of-print content from several publishers including Springs, Sage, and Wiley. This is all in addition to the company lists and profiles and current business research already previously available in the Complete edition.  

Isn’t the search box on the Library’s website EBSCO too?

Yes, it’s from the same vendor and all of the journal content in Business Source Ultimate and most other content is integrated into EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS).  However, for business researchers specifically, you’ll benefit from going to the direct interface for Business Source Ultimate if you are looking for company and industry information, as there are additional tools there not available in EDS. 

Anything else I should know?

For faculty: Previously not allowed, you can now integrate Harvard Business Review articles into course reading lists and assignments. 

The PG Library’s collections have grown in the past few weeks with the additions of many new ebooks and videos. EBSCO eBooks has added over 4,000 new titles as of April 5. We’ve also added over ten ready reference titles to Gale eBooks, including the titles Accessibility and Diversity in the 21st Century University, Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History, Criminal Justice in America, Small Business Sourcebook, and three Sage research handbooks: Qualitative Data Collection, Qualitative Research in Psychology, and Survey Methodology. 

However, the largest addition is a new database, O’Reilly for Higher Education. With O’Reilly for Higher Education, you get on-demand access to the latest O’Reilly books, videos, case studies, expert playlists, and interactive learning scenarios, enabling you to improve your knowledge and proficiency in a comprehensive list of areas in IT and business. O'Reilly complements our faculty’s curriculum, prepares students for their future careers, and encourages lifelong learning. This resource is particularly good for technology, computing, and programming skills training and professional development. To check it out, visit O’Reilly for Higher Education today.  For more about O’Reilly before diving in, visit the Guide to O’Reilly.

The PG Library has worked with EBSCO to set up a new resource trial for the Harvard Student Success Package. 

This resource trial is comprised of two components: First, there is Core Curriculum, which offers 76 Core Curriculum Readings cover entrepreneurship, finance, accounting, marketing, operations management, organizational behavior, and strategy. Second, this resource gives access to HBP Select Case Study Collection, a 2,000+ collection of Harvard Business School case studies that provide immersive real-world scenarios and commentary to help students examine issues related to the dynamics of business. Find more details about this resource at EBSCO's information page on the Harvard Student Success Package.

To check out this resource, visit library.purdueglobal.edu/hbp

The trial runs through May 5, 2021.  The PG Library appreciates your time and feedback in evaluating this resource by filling out a short survey. Open the feedback form for this database trial now to share with us your thoughts. 

New resource available on a trial basis through March 3, 2021! Discover ProQuest One Academic - the world’s largest collection of online academic resources. This comprehensive research point starts with ProQuest Central (which the PG Library has had for years) and adds three new components: Academic Video Online with 70,000 video titles spanning a wide range of subjects, eBook Academic Complete with over 90,000 new titles (180,000+ total), and Dissertations & Theses Global with over 2.5 million dissertations and theses from universities around the world.  Visit ProQuest One Academic now through March 3, 2021.

To give feedback on this resource, fill out our trial feedback form.  

You can also evaluate the individual new components with the links below.

Academic Video Online

eBook Academic Complete

Dissertations & Theses Global

The PG Library is happy to announce expanded librarian chat service hours and availability!  

The PG Library joined a cooperative of libraries last year that provides backup (when we're swamped) and after-hours availability to offer expanded service hours. Feedback on the service has been good, so we've expanded the hours to now cover 12 hours a day, every day, including holidays. The new chat hours are effective immediately. 

New Hours Chat hours - Daily: 10:00 am ET - 10:00 pm ET

If you prefer to talk to a librarian from just the PG team, we are on: 

Monday - Tuesday: 11:00 am ET - 9:00 pm ET

Wednesday - Friday: 10:00 am ET - 6:00 pm ET

As always, all PG students and faculty are also welcome to email us at library@purdueglobal.edu or schedule a 1-on-1 web meeting appointment.  

Health professionals, social workers, and forensic and legal specialists use the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) to diagnose and classify mental disorders. In the DSM Library, part of the PG Library's collection of resources, you will find the DSM-5, as well as companion titles like the Handbook of Differential Diagnosis and digital copies of all previous editions of the DSM.

For some pointers on how to best navigate the DSM Library, the PG Library has created a new Guide to the DSM Library, which includes step-by-step instructions on how to navigate the DSM Library, as well as a video demonstrating its key features.  Visit the Guide to the DSM Library now.  

EBSCO recently added over 2,000 titles to our ebook subscription.  If you’ve ever used the search box on the PG Library’s homepage, you’re likely familiar with EBSCO’s ebooks and many courses now assign chapters from this ebook collection.  To help you use this resource, we’ve put together a new Guide to EBSCO eBooks, which will walk through this platform’s essential features and tools.  Visit the Guide to EBSCO eBooks. 

Today the PG Library website launched two new enhancements.  First, the "Ask Us" tab on the right side of most pages on the PG Library's website and within EBSCO Discovery Service now links to several contact and self-service options instead of a simple email form.  The new support pop-up allows you to instantly see all of our available contact options, including chat, as well as search our F.A.Q. or click on some popular tools to self-assess the answer to your question, including a link to our orientation guide and APA's Academic Writer, the best self-service tool for your APA questions.  

Additionally, you can now browse through all of our subject, topic, and course guides from a single point: library.purdueglobal.edu/guides

Once on this new library guides hub, you will see options to browse guides by subject area (including related course guides) or by type, or see an alphabetical list of all guides.  

We hope you find these new contact and self-service options useful in your studies.  Please reach out to us should you have any questions.

A big update is coming in August to APA's Academic Writer.  See below for details:

• Academic Writer will update its tutorials, examples, templates, and writing tools to follow APA Style 7th Edition rules on Monday, August 3, 2020.  
• On Monday, August 3, 2020, Academic Writer may be unavailable for use most or all of the day, while APA’s technical staff update the product.  
• Starting August 4, 2020, or as soon as the update is finished, the new version of Academic Writer will be available.
• The link to Academic Writer will not change and remain: library.purdueglobal.edu/academicwriter
• New to Academic Writer? For a preview of changes and an overview video, check out our new Guide to Academic Writer.

Additionally, we want to share that our colleagues in the PG Writing Center have also been working on updating their sources to follow APA 7th Edition rules in recent weeks and all APA instructional resources should finish updating by August 15, 2020.

Timeline reminder: 

After these updates, it will be time to start learning the new rules in APA Style 7th Edition. But don't worry, you still have plenty of time! These updates mean we are now entering the second “phase” of PG's APA Style 7th Edition adoption plan:

• 2019/2020: Students can use either APA 6th or APA 7th editions. 
• August 2020: Start learning the changes in the 7th edition once the Academic Writer update is available.
• January 1, 2021: This is the deadline! All students must follow only the 7th edition. 

The PG Library works with information publishers and vendors to periodically bring free resources and trials for use by our students and faculty.  During the month of April, we have free trial access to three different resources.  First, IBISWorld will mostly appeal to business or any other student needing market and industry research and information.  The other databases are aimed at psychology and education students needing information on tests and measures, Mental Measurements Yearbook and APA PsycTests.  

IBISWorld

Gain a quick and intelligent overview of thousands of global industries with IBISWorld.  According to IBISWorld, the features include:

• Comprehensive data and analysis that is easy to read and digest
• Reports available that cover industries in the US, Canada, Australia, Germany, UK and New Zealand
• Copy & paste our charts, graphs and images for use in presentations and decks
• Individual reports are 30-40 pages and all follow the same table of contents
• All reports available with subscription to our online library, plus the option to download as a PDF
• Reports updated frequently

Try IBISWorld. 

Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print

Available from EBSCO and using their familiar search interface, this is how the vendor describes this database: Produced by the Buros Center for Testing at the University of Nebraska, this resource is essential for evaluating contemporary testing instruments. Designed for novices and professionals alike, it contains full-text reviews for test products in psychology, education, business and leadership. In addition, it provides a bibliography to all known commercially available English-language tests currently in print.

Try Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print.

APA PsycTests

Description from the APA: Professionally indexed, the PsycTESTS® database is an extensive collection of items associated with psychological measures, scales, surveys, and other instruments essential to the research needs of professionals, students, and educators across the behavioral and social sciences.

Try APA PsycTests.

Have feedback?

The PG Library greatly values the feedback of our students, faculty, and staff.  To tell us what you think about any of these databases, fill out our Database Trial Feedback form.  

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.  

We have a new guide, especially helpful for new students: Introduction to the Purdue Global Library!

This guide includes a video introducing you to the PG Library and what services and resources it offers you during your studies. The rest of this introductory guide reviews in more detail the topics covered in the welcome video and includes many useful direct links to the resources shown in the video.  The video is an update to the one assigned in the PG Student Orientation (PG160) and the guide is a new addition.  Interested?  Visit the Introduction to the Purdue Global Library guide. 

ProQuest Central, one of the PG Library's largest multi-disciplinary search tools, kept growing over the past year.  ProQuest has added new science and technology databases, including Computer Science, Environmental Science, and Engineering databases, as well as over 1400 new scholarly journals in full-text.  Use the links below to read more about their recent updates, or visit ProQuest Central to start searching now.  

Read about updates in ProQuest Central here.

Visit ProQuest Central.

Notice: Upcoming System Maintenance

Two resources licensed by the PG Library, Academic Writer and Skillsoft Books, will see maintenance windows soon that will, unfortunately, cause downtime.  The sources will be inaccessible during the system maintenance windows, so please plan ahead accordingly.  Additionally, EZProxy, our authentication service, will see a system update that may cause some downtime.  Below are details and messages from the vendors:

Academic Writer

From APA's Support team: Due to scheduled maintenance, Academic Writer will be unavailable on Monday, December 9, 2019 from 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM Eastern Standard Time. Please be sure to complete and save your work before then, as all services will be unavailable during that time. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Skillsoft Books

From Skillsoft's Support team: In the continuous effort to maintain a strong security and privacy posture, Skillsoft will conduct a series of infrastructure upgrades in the next few months. The upgrades require Skillsoft Books downtime due to the nature of the disruptive operation.  It is our hope that the impact will be less in duration, however, in the interest of setting conservative expectations, up to 12-hours should be anticipated.  We apologize for the inconvenience these extended maintenance windows will cause.

The maintenance windows are scheduled as follows:

• Saturday - December 14th, 2019: 7:00 AM – 7:00 PM Eastern Time

• Saturday - January 18th, 2020: 7:00 AM – 11:00 PM Eastern Time

• Saturday - February 8th, 2020: 7:00 AM – 7:00 PM Eastern Time

• Saturday - March 13th, 2020: 7:00 AM – 7:00 PM Eastern Time

EZProxy (Authentication)

System maintenance for EZProxy's United States Data Center is scheduled for December 15, 2019 from 1:00 AM - 05:20 AM Eastern Time.  While no downtime has been indicated, as with any system update, there may be some period where authenticating into any licensed databases or resources may not be available during the window.  

Did you know every course at PG links to either a library research guide focused on a topic area related to the course's content or a resource guide with customized resources, required or suggested reading links, and/or research tips just for that course?  These research guides are created by the PG Library to aid your research and access things like assigned readings and recommended databases more easily.  

For quicker access to these guides, starting on Friday, November 22, 2019, the Library link will be located in the toolbar in every classroom!  After the update, you can easily access curated Library resources for your course with fewer steps than before. To find your course's guide:

• In your course's toolbar, click More Tools, which will expand a menu of options.
• Select the Library link, which is always at the bottom of the list.  

The guide will open in a new browser window or tab, so you can keep working in your course without navigating away from the section you are in. 

Please note, some courses may still also list the Library link under Content >> Academic Tools.  This is the same link and resource.  These links are being phased out over time, so make sure to learn our new location going forward. 

Also rolling out on Friday, November 22, all of the Library’s topic, course, and resource guides (like database walkthroughs) will share the same design and navigation as well.  Similar guides (like nearly identical guides on general topics like business or nursing) will also consolidate to one guide. Some small changes to the search box on course guides and the Library's homepage will also appear to help clarify tool purpose and functionality.

Credo Instruct creates videos and tutorials on essential research and information seeking skills, all of which we link to on our Videos & Tutorials page.  Content is added periodically, so to help you find the latest, below are several recently added videos and tutorials about topics varying from writing an annotated bibliography to researching a persuasive essay. Clicking the name of any item will open it in a new browser tab or window.  
 

New videos and tutorials:

• Tutorial: Annotated Bibliography
• Tutorial: Research for Persuasive Writing
• Tutorial: Selecting Appropriate Digital Sources
• Tutorial: News Reporting vs. Opinion Pieces in Journalism
• Tutorial: Evaluating Digital Sources Using Lateral Reading
• Tutorial: Digital Privacy
• Tutorial: Paraphrasing, Quoting, and Summarizing
• Video: Creating a Research Plan
• Video: Framing a Problem
• Video: Academic Writing
• Video: Understanding the Communication Need
• Video: Preparing for a Presentation

The Purdue Global Library invites all faculty to submit their scholarly work to the new PG University Archive, an institutional repository and index showcasing work from our academic community.  Read the scholarly articles, presentations, and other academic works by your colleagues, or submit your own for inclusion.  This new resource is the first of its kind for our university and an opportunity for you to help grow our university’s reputation and foster collaboration.  

Examples of the types of publications faculty are encouraged to submit include: 

• Scholarly research articles
• Working papers and other pre-publication/gray literature works
• Articles written for trade publications, associations, magazines, and other professional sources
• Proceedings or presentation slides for external conferences (we will work with PG units about including PG-hosted conference materials in the future)

Visit the PG University Archive now or read more about it, including how to submit your work, on the Guide to the University Archive.

GVRL (Gale Virtual Reference Library) relaunched today as Gale eBooks.  With Gale eBooks, you can search through nonfiction e-books on business, health, law, and more, with a single search.  Highlights of the update:

• Streamlined user interface with a top-to-bottom redesign.
• Upgraded search results to help information discovery.
• Quick access to search tools, content, and features like Google Drive.     

Recently, we added many many additional titles, bringing the total count of available ebook from just over 100 to over 1,200!  This makes Gale eBooks a comprehensive reference tool for many researchers across our programs. 

Visit Gale eBooks today to start your research with an authoritative collection of titles.  

To help all of our Google Scholar devotees, you can now link the PG Library to Google Scholar to help you locate the full text of results!  After setting up the connection, articles available from a PG Library database will have a “Find Full Text at PG” link next to them.  The "Find Full Text at PG" link is powered by EBSCO's Full Text Finder tool and will give you the information it has on where to locate the citation, either within an EBSCO database or another resource we subscribe to. 

For more information about how to set this up, as well as a review of what Google Scholar is and search tips when using it, visit our new Guide to Google Scholar.

Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) offers over 100 encyclopedias, handbooks, and other reference titles to help you understand and apply key concepts.  We’re happy to share some new and updated titles added recently to GVRL, primarily in the areas of business and health.  

The list below links directly to the new and updated titles, but the best way to search is often just by keyword on their website.  You can search GVRL now or click on a title of interest below to see its table of contents.

Business & Finance:

Business Analytics and Cyber Security Management in Organizations

Business Plans Handbook

Encyclopedia of American Industries

Encyclopedia of Emerging Industries

Encyclopedia of Global Industries

Encyclopedia of Major Marketing Strategies

Encyclopedia of Management

Encyclopedia of Small Business

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Economics and Society

The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Business and Management Research Methods: History and Traditions

The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Business and Management Research Methods: Methods and Challenges

The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Management

Health & Nursing:

Gale Encyclopedia of Environmental Health

Human Diseases And Conditions

Salem Health: Nutrition

Biology

Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing & Allied Health

General Reference:

American Governance

Worldmark Encyclopedia Of Cultures And Daily Life

Worldmark Encyclopedia Of the Nations

As announced last month, Books24x7 received an update and is now Skillsoft Books.  Skillsoft Books offers full text access to thousands of leading professional books from top industry authors and publishers in the business and IT fields. Additionally, you can find thousands of videos about business leadership, coding, desktop software (like Microsoft Office), and more.  

For more information about how to use Skillsoft Books and what you can find there, including a video walkthrough, visit our Guide to Skillsoft Books.

Or, check out Skillsoft Books now! 

Reminder: Resource trial available to LearnTechLib!

Resource name: LearnTechLib: The Learning and Technology Library

What it is: From the vendor:  "LearnTechLib is the premiere online resource for aggregated, peer-reviewed research on the latest developments and applications in Learning and Technology by the world's leading publications and authors. LearnTechLib encompasses 30+ years and 135,000+ peer-reviewed full-text documents and abstracts of published international journal articles, conference papers from 265,000+ leading authors and additional multimedia-rich resources."

Additionally, faculty and students at subscribing institutions also can sign up for free memberships to AACE, the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.  Please let us know if this membership would be of value and how when filling out the feedback form.

Resource Link:  library.purdueglobal.edu/learntechlib

Let us know what you think! Survey link: purdueglobal.libsurveys.com/learntechlibsurvey

Trial available until: April 23, 2019. 

Update: Links to Library guides and Academic Writer within Brightspace classrooms, specifically in the Content >> Academic Tools area, have been restored.  Thank you for your patience while a solution was found.  

Original message:

Please note: Due to an unexpected error, the links to Library and Academic Writer listed in the Content >> Academic Tools area of every online classroom, across all courses and programs, are missing.  IT from PG and Brightspace are investigating, but there isn't an ETA on a solution yet.  We will update this post with news as it becomes available.  

In the meantime, you can lookup a course guide using our site search tool: (link)

You can also contact library staff and we are happy to help you find a course guide for a course you are taking or teaching, or locate a related subject guide.  

PG Campus will be undergoing scheduled system maintenance from Saturday, February 9th 09:00 PM - Sunday, February 10th, 09:00 AM (ET).

During scheduled system maintenance (above), PG Campus will not be accessible. We apologize for any inconvenience.  This will impact access to library databases during this time, as access to databases requires access to PG Campus.

Books24x7 will soon update to a new platform and name, Skillsoft Books!

Skillsoft Books offers the same full text access to thousands of leading professional books from top industry authors and publishers in the business and IT fields. Additionally, you can find thousands of videos about business leadership, coding, desktop software (like Microsoft Office), and more.  The new Skillsoft Books platform (known as Skillport 8i) offers many great enhancements over the current Books24x7 web interface, including better search tools, navigation, and for the first time, downloadable chapters.  

On Wednesday, February 27, 2019, links to Books24x7 on the Library's website, Databases A-Z Hub, and in EBSCO Discovery Service results lists will change to Skillsoft Books.  Links to individual Books24x7 book titles within classrooms will change over in the weeks afterward.   

Check out Skillsoft Books today at:

library.purdueglobal.edu/skillsoft