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Upcoming Changes: New EBSCOhost Interface Launching December 31, 2025 

On December 31, 2025, EBSCOhost databases will move to a new interface. This update will change the look and functionality of EBSCOhost. You will need to take action if you want to preserve your saved searches and alerts. All databases and content will remain the same.

Affected Databases

Academic Search Premier, America: History & Life, Business Source Complete, CINAHL, EconLit, Film & Television Literature Index, Gender Studies, GreenFILE, Historical Abstracts, International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance, Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, SPORTDiscus, and more.

Note: Dalhousie Libraries’ access to APA PsycINFO and APA PsycARTICLES moved to Ovid on October 1, 2025. Access these via Novanet or the Dalhousie Libraries Database A–Z list.

What Users Need to Do Before December 31

While saved articles and eBook records in MyEBSCO Folders should migrate automatically, saved searches and alerts may not.  To avoid losing important work—especially for knowledge synthesis reviews—we’re asking users to take these steps before December 31:

1. Save Your Search Alerts

  • Go to any EBSCOhost database via our Databases A–Z List
  • Sign in to MyEBSCO
  • Click Folder → Search Alerts
  • For each alert:
    • Click Retrieve Alert → Save Searches/Alerts
    • Name the search and select Saved Search (Permanent)
    • Click Save
  • Repeat for all alerts.

2. Export Your Permanent Searches

  • Go to Folder → Saved Searches
  • For each search:
    • Click Retrieve Saved Search → Print Search History
    • Save as PDF OR copy into a Word document
    • Include database name and date
  • Repeat for all permanent searches.

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Need Help?

Questions or assistance? Contact your subject liaison librarian. We’re here to help you prepare for a smooth transition.

Changes to ProQuest: What You Need to Know

If you use ProQuest to find articles, reports, or other research materials, you might notice things look a little different. That’s because ProQuest (owned by Clarivate) has reorganized how its databases are grouped and accessed. Here’s a quick overview of what’s changed and what it means for you.

What’s New?

Our subscription to ProQuest Central has been upgraded to ProQuest Central Premium. This new version includes even more content than before. ProQuest has also bundled its databases into themed collections, which are now grouped under 8 broad subject areas called ProQuest One. For example:

  • ProQuest One Social Sciences
  • ProQuest One Health & Nursing
  • ProQuest One Business, and more.

Each of these includes multiple collections and databases, providing you with access to a broader range of materials in one place.

What Does This Mean for You?

  • More content: You now have access to additional resources that weren’t included before, like J.P. Morgan Research in the Business collection.
  • Fewer direct links: Some individual databases (like Sociological Abstracts) can no longer be linked to directly. Instead, they’re part of larger collections. You can still search them, but you’ll access them through the broader collection or subject area.
  • Updates coming soon: Our library team is updating links on our website (like the A-Z database list and LibGuides) to reflect these changes. You may also need to update any saved links or course materials that point to specific databases.

Need Help?

If you’re unsure how to access a specific resource or need help updating your materials, please reach out to us at library.eresources@dal.ca.

New Agricultural eBook Collection Available

Dalhousie Libraries is excited to share that we’ve added the comprehensive Burleigh Dodds agricultural eBook collection to our resources. In it, you will find over 1,900 chapters on subjects like crops, livestock, and forestry, that focus on areas including crucial steps in the supply chain, breeding to harvest, and sustainable management practices.  

This collection is an excellent resource for undergraduate students, as well as more experienced researchers in the field of agriculture. It features an easy-to-navigate platform and the ability to read chapters online or download them to your computer, with new content chapters being added frequently. The procurement of this collection highlights agriculture-centered resources for our students, faculty, and researchers.   

A unique feature of the Burleigh Dodds eBooks collection is its organization. Rather than a limited assortment of full books, this compendium is comprised of themed chapters from a wide range of various books. Searching these chapters for the information you need is simple – a search bar on the top of each page allows you to search by keyword, title, author, ISSN, or subject. You can also do an advanced search by selecting the “search” button at the top of the page. You will then be directed to an advanced search page to sort and narrow your results based on your needs. 

You can access the collection directly or visit the Dal Libraries website and select Databases A-Z  in the Quick Links and scroll until you see Burleigh Dodds Agriculture eBook Collection.

If you need help navigating the database, please don’t hesitate to contact our Agriculture subject specialist librarians, Erin MacPherson or Jaclyn Chambers-Page.  

We hope you enjoy this expansive collection! 

Embase services are currently not available

Dear Embase users,

Due to technical problems Embase services are currently not available. Our team is working with the highest urgency to resolve the issue.

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience caused by this outage and thank you for your patience.

Please do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions or concerns.

Your Embase Team

The Open Library of the Humanities Launches

The Open Library of the Humantities (OLH) has just launched this week after two years of planning and preparation!The platform starts with seven journals, supported by 99 institutions (at a cost of $6 per institution per open-access article.)

 

OLH is similar in many ways to the PLoS model in that OLH functions as a multidisciplinary journal itself, but also consists of seven discipline specific journals. Articles are released on a weekly rolling cycle, which means there is always new content being released.

Read the full launch announcement here: https://about.openlibhums.org/2015/09/28/olh-launches/
Here is the list of journals currently being produced: https://www.openlibhums.org/site/journals/

 

Library Access to BMJ Best Practice Renewed

 

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Following some helpful feedback from students and faculty, Dalhousie Libraries have renewed the subscription to BMJ Best Practice for the remainder of this year and will be renewing for the next subscription year as well.

This fall, Dalhousie Libraries will be trialing an updated version of another evidence based resource, Dynamed Plus.

We will again be looking for your advice on the value of Dynamed Plus to your work and its place in our suite of evidence based resources

ProQuest EBL platform temporarily unavailable on September 15

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In preparation for the upcoming ProQuest Ebook Central launch, the ProQuest EBL platform will be unavailable for up to three hours September 15, 2015 to combine ebrary and EBL content into a single new back-end system. This update means that when Ebook Central launches, it will have all the content and access models you’re enjoying with EBL and ebrary today.

The EBL Patron Interface and EBL LibCentral will not be available at these times: 7:00 pm -10:00 pm September 15. Apologies for any inconvenience.

 

Cambridge University Press ejournals down

We are experiencing problems with the  Cambridge journal online website at the moment. The provider is working on solutions to restore access, and have confirmed that it could take several days before all functionalities are made available again.

Issue resolved: ProQuest databases and full text access temporarily unavailable

Update: August 26 – This issue has been resolved. Thank you for your patience!

Some ProQuest databases and access to full text content are temporarily unavailable. The Libraries are working with ProQuest to restore access as quickly as possible.

 

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