State-wide database changes and OHIONET options

Ohio changed their portfolio selection of state-funded databases, but your favorites are still available at special pricing via OHIONET. This includes:

AccessScience (McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology)
Encyclopedia Britannica (academic, public and package versions)
Oxford American National Biography


Academics, contact Mary Conroy maryc@Ohionet.org
Publics and schools, contact Christine Morris Christinem@ohionet.org for more info.

HW Wilson enhancements and Shibboleth

July 15, 2008. The new WilsonWeb CX Edition interface offers more versatile and more incisive searching, more customization, and new tools for saving and formatting data.

H.W. Wilson today affirmed that the new WilsonWeb CX Edition meets standards for the Shibboleth System, a popular software for governing access to protected online resources.

The Shibboleth system is standards-based software for web sign-on across or within organizational boundaries. It allows sites to make informed authorization decisions for individual access to protected online resources in a privacy-preserving manner. Institutions have long been able to access WilsonWeb databases via Shibboleth authentication. The new WilsonWeb CX Edition remains compatible with Shibboleth and other popular authentication systems.

DIALOG Online acquired by Proquest

July 1, 2008 DIALOG has been acquired by Proquest. Previously DIALOG was part of the ThompsonReuters.

DIALOG's press release

Proquest press release