Starting Saturday, July 26, the library will begin our summer break hours:

Monday – Thursday 10:00am – 4:00pm
Friday – Sunday CLOSED

We will begin Fall Semester hours starting on Wednesday, August 20th. Please contact us if you need any assistance.

As you may know, a number of our journal databases are provided to all of the public universities in the state of Washington through the Cooperative Library Project. Starting today, July 1st, we moved from ProQuest and their collection of databases to EBSCO and their offerings. We have had a trial of EBSCO’s Academic Search Complete for the past year, so you may already be familiar with the interface.

EBSCO full-text databases, including Academic Search Complete, is replacing ProQuest Direct as the interdisciplinary, “first-stop” source for magazines and journals. EBSCO offers 1,500 more current peer reviewed full text titles than ProQuest.

As for newspaper coverage, we will continue to have access to Washington newspapers and selected national papers through ProQuest’s National Newspapers and Washington Newstand. We also now have access to approximately 1,000 current full text newspapers through Newsbank’s Access World News.

We will continue to have access to Ethnic Newswatch and the historical New York Times databases through Proquest.

Overview of Database Changes

If you have any questions, comments or concerns, please do not hesitate to let us know. Thanks!