June 22, 2006
 
MU Alumni to Get Expanded Online Library Access
 
By HNN Staff

 
Huntington, WV (HNN) – Marshall University Alumni Association members soon will be able to access journal articles in a wide variety of subject areas through databases similar to the ones current students, faculty, and staff use.
 
Through the joint efforts of the MU Alumni Association, Marshall University Libraries, and EBSCOhost Inc., active alumni will be able to search Academic Search Alumni Edition and Business Source Alumni Edition from anywhere in the world, beginning on July 1, 2006. Both databases are designed for the research needs of post-college professionals, who often need the same kind of information on their jobs as they did when taking college classes.
 
Nearly every area of business is covered by Business Source, with more than 1,350 full-text magazines and journals, from scholarly to trade publications to top management journals, along with country economic and industry reports, and company profiles. Academic Search provides the full text of articles from more than 2,200 publications, and indexing for more than 8,000 publications, in almost every subject area.
 
“The Alumni Association is pleased to be partnering with University Libraries, who are offering yet another outstanding benefit to active alumni,” Nancy Pelphrey, coordinator of alumni programs with MUAA, said.
 
Barbara Winters, dean of Libraries, said MU Libraries is thrilled to partner with the Alumni Association to bring the service to Marshall alumni.
 
“When you want to know more about a topic, perhaps information about a company you are doing business with, or national and local politics, or details about the new Marshall movie, you can retrieve the full-text of online articles that are more reliable than most Internet sites,” Winters said.
 
Alumni access to library databases is a growing trend in academic libraries, Winters said. Marshall joins such major schools as West Virginia University, the universities of Arkansas and Minnesota, and Case Western Reserve University in providing this service.
 
User IDs and passwords will be sent by the MU Alumni Association to its members. Because of the costs involved, only active members of the Association will have access to these special databases. Persons wanting more information may contact the Alumni Association at (304) 696-3134 or 1 (800) MU-ALUMX , or Winters at (304) 696-2318.
 
Links to the databases will be available at www.marshall.edu/alumni.