2021-22 - ER Roundup - What's new with RL's E-Resources - Rohrbach Library Home at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

New Resources

Newsbank - Access World News This link opens in a new window
Library upgraded to the 2021 edition of Access World News. The upgrade include thousands of new sources, including expanded international content and image editions. It also includes access to the Black Life in America database. View new content here.
Black Life in America, Series 3: 1976-today
Included as part of our 2021 Newsbank upgrade.. Black Life in America offers comprehensive coverage of the African American experience sourced from more than 19,000 American and global news sources, including over 400 current and historical Black publications. This collection offers a separate interface set with a unique algorithm to pull up relevant results and “suggested searches” to guide students to pertinent topics from social justice, politics, arts, literature, key people, etc.
Westlaw Campus Research
Added in FY21 to replace Nexis Uni (formerly Lexis Academic Universe). Legal section is much improved, news and business sections are not as strong as Uni. Faculty supported the switch.
OverDrive Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Customized digital library of mostly popular ebook and audiobook titles although OD has aggressively moved into the academic market adding many academic publishers. Liaisons can use their allocations to purchase titles on OD. The plan is to add new content almost every month during the academic year. Our subscription also includes access to 4,000+ titles in the Duke Classics Collection. All Overdrive books are in the catalog.
To learn more about using OverDrive, visit the Getting Started site.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
We added the Elsevier Ebook EBA to our ScienceDirect platform. It includes access to over 4,000 eBook titles for 12-Months from 2016 to 2020 Frontlist. DRM-free, unlimited simultaneous users, no print or download restrictions. One reason we did this was because of PQ ebook central Elsevier title removal (see below).
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History
Newest Oxford Research Encyclopedia - these are dynamically kept current with new articles published regularly.
Oxford Scholarship Online
We recently purchased 6 more subject collections including Archaeology, Chemistry, Clinical Medicine and Allied Health, Computer Science, Earth Sciences, Education, and Environmental Science. This completes our collection, we should have access to all OSO ebooks including backfile and current, almost 18,000 titles.

PBS Video Collection
Used year-end tech fee funds to secure permanent access to the complete PBS collection on Academic Video through 2023. Will include apx 1500 videos when complete. Library has lifetime ownership access. No more PBS titles disappearing.

Taylor & Francis Social Sciences & Humanities Library
As a subscriber to the SSH collection, T&F is providing complimentary access to their Allied Health and Public Health collection (58 journals). They are seamlessly integrated in our T&F online platform. Learn more here.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
WoS recently did a major overhaul of their platform.

Changes

Clarivate purchased ProQuest. This will definitely have an impact on our resources and services. Some recent developments:

Elsevier pulled all content from PQ ebook central because of a contract issue. This removal includes over 8,000 ebooks.
Clarivate owns the license for BioAbs. We currently get this via EBSCO. EBSCO informed me that this is likely to change in the future and be offered through PQ.

OverDrive purchased Kanopy. Not sure what impact this will have. Learned the following:

Business to continue "as normal" for both services.
OverDrive said that eventually customers will be able to license Kanopy titles via the OverDrive marketplace and they will appear on the OverDrive platform - no timeline provided.

Alexander Street recently migrated our institutional content to the new video platform. I will be working on updating the links in the catalog.

View here.

Cancellations

The following resources were not renewed:

GVRL Flex-It program (EBA program that provided access to apx 1,000 Gale imprint titles)
Lexis Academic Universe (not renewed FY21)

ER Roundup - What's new with RL's E-Resources: 2021-22

New Resources

Changes

Cancellations