Join Us In Checking Out Academic Video Online (AVON)

CSU Libraries is currently trialing ProQuest's Academic Video Online (AVON).  

AVON includes scholarly video material of virtually every video type: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, demonstrations, original and raw footage including tens of thousands of exclusive tiles.  There are thousands of award-winning films, Academy, Emmy, and Peabody winners along with the most frequently used films for classroom instruction, plus newly released films and previously unavailable archival material.

You can access AVON on campus only at:  http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=acav-col1  

The trial lasts until April 27th.  

Please send your comments about your AVON experience to your departmental Library Liaisons:  https://library.columbusstate.edu/about_us/faculty_staff/faculty.php

For more information, please contact Jackie Radebaugh at radebaugh_jacqueline@columbusstate.edu

Viewing EBSCOHost and ProQuest eBooks on Your Mobile Device

The EBSCO eBooks app is being retired by EBSCO. After May 25, 2018, the app will no longer function; however, EBSCO eBooks can still be downloaded and read on your mobile device using the Bluefire Reader app.  The following guides will assist you in reading EBSCO eBooks on your mobile device:

Users with an Apple (iOS) device [Download PDF]

Users with an Android device [Download PDF]

In June 2017, ProQuest ebrary eBook collections transitioned to the ProQuest Ebook Central platform. GALILEO has also updated the guide for how to download Ebook Central titles to your mobile device.

For Users with Apple or Android devices [Download PDF]

If you have any questions, please Ask a Librarian.

Statistics to the Rescue!

Are you frustrated by the loss of access to government statistics?  Census.gov, Bureau of Labor Statistics and American FactFinder are all government statistical sources were either down or not being updated because of the government shutdown.  While there is no replacement for the comprehensiveness of these sources, CSU Libraries does have statistical resources that can fill the gap.

Statista gathers data from a variety of government, non-profit, and private sources and offers easily searchable statistics that can be downloaded as jpg, pdf and excel files.

Statistical Abstracts of the United States is a easily searchable statistical resource that gathers data from 1878 forward.  Previously managed by the Census, it is now offered through Proquest.

Both resources can be found in Galileo by clicking on Databases A to Z.

                                                                

ProQuest® Databases Unavailable During Maintenance

ProQuest® will be performing infrastructure maintenance this weekend. A 12-hour window will be required for this maintenance from Saturday, March 17, 2012 at 10:00 p.m., ET to Sunday, March 18, 2012 at 10:00 a.m., ET.

Products on the ProQuest® platform (e.g., Research Library, ABI/INFORM Complete) will be unavailable during this window of time.

Please Ask a Librarian or call Information Services (706-562-1492) if you have any questions.

ProQuest Databases Maintenance Downtime

ProQuest® will be performing infrastructure maintenance this weekend. A 12-hour maintenance window will be required for this from Saturday, December 3, 2011, at 10:00 p.m. to Sunday, December 4, 2011, at 10:00 a.m.

Products on the new ProQuest platform (e.g., Research Library, ABI/INFORM Complete) will be unavailable during these times.

Please Ask a Librarian or call Information Services (706-562-1492) if you have any questions.

ProQuest Databases Down for Maintenance

ProQuest will be performing infrastructure maintenance this weekend.

A12-hour maintenance window will be required for maintenance from Saturday, November 5, 2011, at 10:00 p.m. through Sunday, November 6, 2011, at 10:00 a.m.

If you have any questions or need additional information, please Ask a Librarian or contact CSU Libraries at: 706-562-1492.

ProQuest Databases Maintenance Downtime

ProQuest® will be performing infrastructure maintenance on August 20, 2011. A twelve (12) hour maintenance window will be required for this maintenance. The window will take place from Saturday, August 20, 2011, at 10:00 PM to Sunday, August 21, 2011 at 10:00 AM.

The following products will be unavailable during this time:

• ProQuest platform products, including ABI/INFORM and Research Library
• Genealogy and local history products, including Ancestry Library Edition

Please Ask a Librarian or call Information Services (706-562-1492) if you have any questions.

New to CSU: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses -- Full Text

The CSU Libraries are proud to announce that they have recently subscribed to the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses -- Full Text database!

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses — Full text is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. It is the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and the database of record for graduate research. PQDT — Full Text includes 2.7 million searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1.2 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works (Cited directly from: www.proquest.com/en-US/catalogs/databases/detail/pqdt.shtml).

You can access the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses -- Full Text database from GALILEO or directly at: www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=pret-col1.

For more information, please Ask a Librarian!

Happy Searching!

ProQuest Databases Down for Maintenance

ProQuest will be performing infrastructure maintenance on July 30, 2011.

A fourteen-hour maintenance window will be required for this from Saturday, July 30, 2011, at 10:00 p.m. to Sunday, July 31, 2011, at 12:00 p.m.

If you have any questions or need more information, please Ask a Librarian or contact CSU Libraries at: 706-562-1492.

June 4th ProQuest Infrastructure Maintenance Schedule

ProQuest will be performing infrastructure maintenance on June 4, 2011.

A twelve (12) hour maintenance window will be required for this maintenance. The window will take place from Saturday, June 4, 2011 at 10:00 PM to Sunday, June 5, 2011 at 10:00 AM.

During this time, all ProQuest databases databases will be unavailable. These include:

• Criminal Justice Periodical Index
  
• ProQuest Newspapers
• ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health
  
• ProQuest Research Library

If you have any questions or need more information, please Ask a Librarian or call CSU Libraries at: 706-562-1492.

GALILEO announcements and status updates are available at: http://status.galileo.usg.edu

Downtime for the ProQuest Databases

ProQuest will be performing infrastructure maintenance on May 5, 2011. A two (2) hour maintenance window will be required for this maintenance. The window will take place from Thursday, May 5, 2011, at 10:00 p.m. to Thursday, May 5, 2011 at 12:00 midnight.

The following products will be unavailable during these windows:

• ProQuest platform products, including Research Library and ABI/INFORM
• Genealogy and local history products, including Ancestry Library Edition
  
• Dissertation products

CSU Libraries apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause.

For more information, please contact CSU Libraries.

ProQuest Maintenance and Outage

Due to a scheduled 12 hour maintenance ProQuest will be unavailable Saturday, March 19th at 10:00PM EST until Sunday, March 20th at 10:00AM EST.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

ProQuest Maintenance

We would like to inform you that ProQuest will be performing infrastructure maintenance on January 29, 2011. A twelve-hour maintenance window will be required for this from Saturday, January 29, 2011, at 10:00 p.m. to Sunday, January 30, 2011, at 10:00 a.m.

The following products will be unavailable during this time:

-ProQuest platform products, such as Research Library and ProQuest Newspapers
-Chadwyck-Healey products
-Genealogy and local history products, including Ancestry Library Edition and HeritageQuest Online
-K-12 products, including SIRS

We are sorry for the inconvenience.

New ProQuest Resources Page.

As you all know from our December 16 post, ProQuest has changed its interface. In order to help serve you better and answer any question you might have, we have created an electronic resource guide for ProQuest and the new interface. The page describes what exactly ProQuest is, a complete listing of the collections you have access to, a brief introduction to My Research accounts, and a great list of tutorials by subject area listed below...

Business

ABI/INFORM and ProQuest Business databases

Dow Jones Factiva

Ethnic Studies

Fine & performing Arts

Genealogy

General Reference

Health & Medicine

ProQuest Medical Databases

History

Literature

Natural Science

Newspapers

KnowUK

Social Sciences

Technology

We hope that this helps you understand how to use and find the information and content for your research needs. If you have any question that the page and tutorials cannot answer please feel free to contact us via the Reference/Information Commons desk at: 706-562-1492 or 706-562-1493 or the Systems Department at: 706-565-3555 or library_systems@colstate.edu

ProQuest Database Gets an Interface Lift.

The new ProQuest platform is designed to be user-friendly, intuitive, and engaging. The new clean look makes searches quick and easy. You can use the subject-area image representations of the databases to search a category. Or you can enter a quick search using the search box, and get results across all of the ProQuest databases available from the library. Start typing and the platform provides keyword recommendations, based on your entry using an auto complete feature.

Plus, you can personalize your research experience with your own My Research account with options to save, print, email, cite, export citations, and more. You can set some search preferences and even change the language interface to best suit your needs.

Here is a step by step Demonstration for you to utilize if you’d like a walk through before diving in. Again, we hope that you enjoy the new look and functionality.

Happy Researching!

Here is a list of all the titles we have from ProQuest.

• ABI/INFORM Archive
• ABI/INFORM Complete
• Accounting & Tax
• Atlanta Journal & Constitution
• Banking Information Source
• Evidence-Based Resources from the Joanna Briggs Institute
• Hoover's Company Profiles
• International Newspapers
• Los Angeles Times
• National Newspaper Abstracts (3)
• National Newspapers Core
• New York Times
• Pharmaceutical News Index
• ProQuest Asian Business & Reference
• ProQuest Career and Technical Education
• ProQuest Computing
• ProQuest Criminal Justice Periodicals
• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I
• ProQuest Education Journals
• ProQuest European Business
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003)
• ProQuest Military Collection
• ProQuest Newsstand
• ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source
• ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source
• ProQuest Religion
• ProQuest Research Library
• ProQuest Social Science Journals
• ProQuest Telecommunications
• Southeastern Newspapers
• The Christian Science Monitor
• The Wall Street Journal
• The Washington Post