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from Britannica:

This summer, the next generation of Britannica School Edition -- Britannica School -- will be live for all subscribers at school.eb.com. With this new version, you will find more than just a new look. You'll discover new and effective ways to differentiate instruction and learning, advanced interactive features for students and educators, and easy access to Britannica content, anytime, anywhere, and on any device!

Streamlined Homepage
Choose your learning level with one click! With every search, an easy toggle enables every student to access the same content at their reading level while exploring in an age-appropriate environment. Students will also find easier access to images, videos, magazine articles, primary sources, and more!

New Features
Many new features are now available in Britannica School, including My Britannica and the Lesson Plan Builder. Teachers can create, save, and share interactive activities with other teachers and students. Learning games, animated lessons and study guides offer even more opportunities to connect with the content.

Responsive Design
Enjoy the same viewing experience on a tablet, smartphone, laptop, desktop computer, or any Internet-connected device with a Web browser. Retrieve and explore content anytime and anywhere ... classroom, library, home, or on the go!

Get ready for this valuable resource when you return to school in the Fall! Become a Britannica School expert in just one hour! Please join us for our new webinars specifically designed to introduce you to Britannica School. Find ways to support Common Core and State Standards, locate STEM resources, and find new and exciting ways to research! Simply click on the link below to sign up for a webinar.

Alexander Street's Music collections offer the most comprehensive set of online music materials to support teaching and research in music and related disciplines. Now, with the new Music Online: Premium package, you can have unlimited subscription access to Alexander Street audio tracks and albums, videos, scores, and reference works. Enjoy 904,835 tracks, 124,091 pages of full-text reference, 26,015 scores (454,376 pages), and 1,312 hours of video--and the numbers continuously grow!

Music Online: Premium includes all the content in these Alexander Street collections:

• Classical Music Library
• Smithsonian Global Sound
• Jazz Music Library
• American Song
• Contemporary World Music
• Classical Scores Library
• Classical Scores Library: Volume II
• Opera in Video
• Dance in Video
• Classical Music in Video
• The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
• Classical Music Reference Library
• African American Music Reference

The price of the Music Online: Premium package is discounted up to 50%, compared with the prices of the collections individually. We've added even more attractive options for community colleges, and we've removed any limits on simultatneous usage! If you've subscribed to one or more of our music collections, you can now upgrade to access them all, at a great price. And if you've already purchased perpetual rights to any of the component collections, the price of the Music Online: Premium package will be discounted further. Contact Susan Buczkowski for a trial, pricing, or more information.

from ProQuest

ProQuest is pleased to welcome Ebook Library (EBL) to the family! On May 13, 2013, the agreement announced in January was finalized, completing the acquisition of EBL and significantly expanding our e-book delivery and aggregation capabilities to libraries globally. By combining the complementary strengths of EBL and ebrary, we will create the best possible research experience, connecting e-books with the vast array of other content and services offered by ProQuest. This supports our goal of enabling researchers to seamlessly discover content across multiple formats including books, journals, dissertations, newspapers, and video.

from EBSCO:

EBSCO introduces Civil War Primary Source Documents™, a comprehensive collection of primary source materials chronicling various aspects of the American Civil War. Drawn from the holdings of the New-York Historical Society, the collection captures various accounts of the Civil War as it was experienced on land and sea.

Civil War Primary Source Documents represents both Northern and Southern perspectives. The archive focuses on the War as it was fought from 1861 to 1865 and includes important contextual documents in the crucial years leading up to the War and after the fall of the Confederacy.

The collection is comprised of over 110,000 pages and includes information from over 400 individual collections. The invaluable primary resources include original manuscripts of letters, diaries, administrative records, photographs, illustrations and artifacts. Personal accounts appear in various scrapbook journals and family portraits, and strategic initiatives are evident in maps featuring details of troop movements and local landmarks.

Highlights include letters and first-person accounts from such well-known leaders as Ulysses S. Grant; the papers of David Cronin, a famous soldier and artist; soldiers' diaries chronicling daily life and experiences as prisoners of war; Union Defence Committee records and Confederate Army records.

EBSCO provides access to these materials via its Historical Digital Archives Viewer. The viewer brings content alive and allows users to explore, manipulate, collect, and export content. The unique functionality of the Historical Digital Archives Viewer enables it to reproduce the best aspects of the physical library research experience while incorporating the advances in modern digital technology.

EBSCO has continued to significantly increase the number of resources offered in its collection of digital archives. For more information on the complete collection please go to: http://www.ebscohost.com/archives

from ProQuest

On April 17, 2013 ProQuest is scheduling a very brief network maintenance window in order to update our systems.

A one hour (1) hour maintenance window is needed to install these updates, lasting from 10:00 UTC through 11:00 UTC . See below for a more complete list of times and time zones.

• Eastern Daylight Time: April 17, 2013 at 06:00 AM for one (1) hour
• Brazil Time: April 17, 2013 at 07:00 AM for one (1) hour
• British Summer Time: April 17, 2013 at 11:00 AM for one (1) hour
• Central European Summer Time: April 17, 2013 at 12:00 PM for one (1) hour
• China Standard Time: April 17 2013 at 18:00 for one (1) hour
• Japan Standard Time: April 17, 2013 at 19:00 for one (1) hour
• Australia Eastern Standard Time: April 17, 2013 at 20:00 for one (1) hour
• New Zealand Standard Time: April 17, 2013 at 22:00 for one (1) hour

During this time databases on ProQuest and ProQuest Dialog will not be available.

The Minitex Spring e-resources trials are available for the month of April, and with the trials:

Britannica Image Quest is now available at a special value for you!

Because Minitex provides your institution access to Britannica Online through ELM, you are now eligible for a 40% discount on another of Britannica's most popular online resources, Image Quest. But, you need to act soon because this special offer expires on June 30th, 2013.

Image Quest offers:

• Immediate access to three million rights-cleared educational images from over 50 proprietary sources, including Dorling Kindersley, Getty, The Granger Collection, the National Geographic Society, and Oxford Scientific - all at one safe, advertising-free site;
• Complete citations and metadata for each image, including the source, copyright holder, caption, and related keywords, on one page;
• Ease of use - search, download, print, e-mail, or save images for standards-based lesson plans, assignments, research reports, school Web sites, or newsletters with only a few simple keystrokes.

We encourage you to preview Image Quest to see for yourself what a great value it is, especially at 40% off its regular price. Use the following user name and password for the next 60 days to preview Image Quest at http://quest.eb.com/

User Name: minitex
Password: trial

If you would like a quote, please contact Minitex or John Russell at Britannica.

from EBSCO:

As of August 2013, some changes will be made to Harvard Business Review (HBR) article access for Business Source customers. This change will not affect institutions that have already purchased the expanded rights from Harvard Business Publishing. Further, customers buying a site license will not be impacted.

As you are likely aware, full-text licensing agreements with publishers are subject to change in all databases, and EBSCO is committed to providing our customers with as much advance notice as possible on full-text content changes as often as we possibly can. With that said, we would like to inform you that as of August 1, 2013, all databases containing HBR will experience a change for 500 of the articles. These articles will become read-only, and will be clearly marked as such.

For example, in Business Source Complete, there are currently 12,824 full-text articles from HBR, and 12,324 will continue to have the existing access functionality. If libraries wish to prevent the read-only limitation on these 500 articles, and expand usage rights to all 12,824 HBR articles to include course use, they should contact Harvard Business Publishing for expanded rights. For an upgrade fee, Harvard Business Publishing offers full course use rights for all articles. For pricing information please contact us at permissions@harvardbusiness.org.

We thank you for your understanding, and please don't hesitate to contact us at information@ebscohost.com if you have any questions.

from ProQuest:

ProQuest is streamlining research by enabling ebrary® and ProQuest® content to be discovered within a single search experience. Now, researchers can surface e-books side-by-side with relevant reports, videos, journal and newspaper articles and more in one step. The advance in searching comes via linking technology that enables users to navigate seamlessly from search results to the platform that best supports the content they want to explore.

"Our research shows that e-books are important to both scholars and students, but there has been some frustration in trying to find them," said Kurt Sanford, ProQuest CEO. "We're addressing that barrier in a way that respects the nuances of different formats. E-book content is supported by the ebrary platform, which includes tools designed specifically for e-books and traditional scholarly content is supported by its own set of tools."

The Johns Hopkins University Press (JHUP) has reached an agreement with Stanford University's HighWire Press to transition to the HighWire Open Platform as the new digital hosting and delivery platform for Project MUSE.

Over the past year, JHUP and its digital publishing unit Project MUSE have conducted an extensive search for a technology partner to assist in expanding the capacity of Project MUSE to support its current content offering and allow MUSE to pursue opportunities in developing new products, business models and service offerings for its growing community of more than 200 publishers and 2700 libraries.

"HighWire brings a wealth of experience in hosting content for publishers and MUSE will leverage that experience in developing a similar hosting model for the humanities and social sciences," said Dean Smith, Director of Project MUSE. "Our vision is to deliver the definitive state-of-the-art research environment in servicing our communities of publishers, libraries, and researchers."

"HighWire is committed to the widespread dissemination of scholarly research and to the latest advancements in information technology. They have developed a sophisticated platform and protocol for constant improvement that has served the needs of academic publishers large and small," said Kathleen Keane, Director of JHUP. "The Johns Hopkins University Press shares the objective of making scholarly research content available and usable."

HighWire's history tracks very closely with that of Project MUSE, with similar missions and both having launched in 1995. Several of HighWire's publishing partners (Duke University Press, The Oxford University Press, and the University of Wisconsin Press) also have content on the MUSE platform.

"We are proud to welcome such a prestigious leader in the humanities and social sciences to the HighWire community," said Tom Rump, Managing Director of HighWire. "We are excited to provide our innovative hosting platform to Project MUSE to ensure the highest levels of content integration, discoverability, and end-user engagement. Given the deep understanding of their customers' needs and their vision for the future of ebooks and publishing, MUSE will be an inspired digital partner."

"This partnership offers new collaboration opportunities for MUSE and HighWire to advance the thought leadership, end-user research, and publisher communities that each organization has pursued individually," affirmed John Sack, Founding Director of HighWire. "We look forward to finding ways in which together we can foster the next evolution of research communication."

The successful expansion of the Project MUSE publishing program is highly dependent on an advanced delivery infrastructure that combines rich functionality, customizability and a collaborative relationship with an innovative vendor of proven track record such as HighWire. This dynamic relationship will enable Project MUSE to create new products, incorporate new content types such as online references, foster personalization and collaboration, and continue to provide a sustainable model for libraries, publishers and researchers.

Collection Enhancements and New Publishers Signed

EBSCO has recently added over 2,000 new Wiley and Taylor & Francis titles to the EBSCO eBooks collection, as well as over 900 foreign language titles, including German, Turkish, Dutch, Spanish and other languages. In addition, 17 new publishers have signed on with EBSCO, including West Virginia University Press, Urban Institute Press and Hoover Institution Press.

New 2013 Academic Subject Sets

EBSCO has released 25 new 2013 academic Subject Sets, ranging in size from 40 to 130 titles. These Subject Sets contain current works from reputable publishers on a variety of popular topics, including:

• Accounting & Finance
• Allied Health
• American Contemporary Issues
• Biology & Life Sciences
• Career
• College Success
• Computer Science
• Contemporary Social Issues
• Criminal Justice
• Defense & Security
• Education
• Energy & Green Technologies
• Engineering
• Environment
• Ethnic & Cultural Studies
• Healthcare Knowledge & Management
• Leadership & Management
• Literary Criticism & Writing
• Networking & Security
• Nursing
• Personal & Home Computing
• Philosophy
• Psychology
• Religion & Theology
• World History

View the title lists here (or via EBSCOhost Collection Manager).

Don't forget: EBSCO also offers Consortium Subject Sets, providing discounts to member libraries of consortia that purchase titles through these special collections.

Updated Subscription Collections

The eBook Academic Collection has grown to over 113,000 titles, and the eBook Community College Collection now features over 48,000 titles.