Temporary Changes to Kresge Library Assignment/Exam Services & TEXTPAK pickup (Dec. 14 - Jan. 11

The Kresge Library Services offices are being remodeled to accommodate the Office of Digital Education staff joining our suite (K4511).  To accommodate this work, we will be relocating our service point and staff offices to the Executive Residence's 2nd Floor hallway corridor from Friday, December 14th through Friday, January 11th.  

This will impact both Kresge's Assignment/Exam Services and the student pickup of TEXTPAKS.  We are not sure if we will be able to accept book deliveries from the main library at this time.

Here is a listing of key dates for this move.  These are subject to change:

• Thursday December 13th - Last day to operate in Kresge Library Services Suite (K4521)
• Friday December 14th - Move operations to the 2nd Floor Corridor (the offices closest to the Blau connector).  Students will go there to review documents and Faculty Support should go there to deliver items to distribute.
• Monday December 19th - Course materials go on sale to students (notification through Canvas)
• Friday December 21st - Our last day open for 2018.
• Wednesday January 2nd - We open up after the holidays.
• Monday January 7th - First day for students to pickup TEXTPAKs for Winter Term (in 2nd Floor Corridor).
• Monday January 14th - Return to Kresge Library Services Suite (K4521) and normal operations.

If you have not submitted your WN19 course materials, please complete the form (https://goo.gl/forms/bbrUz5daLIV1M3Pn1) right away. Late submission may take longer to finalize due to the move to the interim space and the move back to K4511 (staff will have downtime during both moves in order to take down and then set-up their cubicles).

Holiday Library Hours

Kresge Library reference will be available from 9:00am - 1:00pm on Wednesday, November 21 and will resume normal hours on Monday, November26 in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday.

Planned Website Outage Sunday 12 Aug 6 am - 12 noon

What is happening?
Sunday morning August 12th from 6 am to noon, we are upgrading our Oracle server. To do this, we need to close off access to iMpact and all iMpact applications during this time.

New Orbis Interface

There are now 285.6 million companies in Orbis and a whole new interface making the user experience easier and more efficient.  The updates include easier to use navigation, and easier to read results, click through options to financials, qualitative scores by modeFinance and Zanders, and mich more.

Wards Intelligence now available through the Kresge Library

Wards Intelligence, a provider of sales, production, specification, and other data on the automotive industry is now available through the Kresge Library. Wards also provides industry insights into advanced vehicle technology. Click the “Data” tab to view available data sets that can be downloaded to Excel. 

Note: The Outlook Conference Series and Wards Intelligence Reports are not included in our subscription.

Access is available to all three UM Campuses.

Access Wards Intelligence on the Kresge Library's A-Z Database Page

RefWorks Subscription Cancellation

The University of Michigan's subscription to RefWorks will expire at the end of December 2018 and will not be renewed.

This decision was made based on a steady decline in RefWorks usage paired with the availability of free or low-costs options that function as well as or better than Refworks. Additionally, RefWorks is introducing a new platform that would have required all of our users to migrate their account and learn a new tool as the legacy product is retired.

Existing RefWorks users will be contacted via email before the start of the fall semester and provided with options and support for transitioning to another citation management tool. An FAQ will also be developed to guide users in this transition. An additional email will be sent before the end of the fall semester with a final reminder about migrating. More information about the RefWorks transition plan will be shared at the Public Services Communication Forum (PSCF) on Friday, July 20.

The University of Michigan will continue to offer support for EndNote and EndNote Basic, Mendeley, and Zotero. Support for transitioning from RefWorks to another product is available by emailing scholarspace@umich.edu. Users of the Taubman Health Sciences Library can email thlibrary@umich.edu.

Unlimited Access to O'Reilly Safari Books Online

Safari Tech Books Online has been upgraded to the new O'Reilly Safari Books Online platform, which provides unlimited access for all current U-M students, faculty and staff to even more books, plus new videos, tutorials, case histories, and learning paths.

Access 40,000+ technical books, videos, tutorials, case studies, and learning paths from O'Reilly & Associates, The Pearson Technology Group (including Addison-Wesley, Alpha, Financial Times Prentice Hall, Cisco Press, New Riders, Peachpit Press, Prentice Hall PTR, Que and Sams) and other publishers. 

The new platform requires entry of your U-M email address (in the format: uniqname@umich.edu) to obtain temporary access, which results in you receiving email messages inviting you to create a permanent O'Reilly Safari account.  You are not required to create a permanent account unless you want to use personalized features or the smart phone app version.  You may obtain temporary access as many times as you wish.

Access to the O'Reilly Safari Books Online platform is available on the Kresge Library A-Z Database list.

Kresge Library Services Closed 11-1 on Monday, May 7

Kresge Library Services will be closed from 11am-1pm on Monday, May 7 for a staff function. References services and Course Materials pickup will not be available during this time.

WRDS Downtime scheduled for May 15, 2018

During the scheduled downtime, all access methods on WRDS will be inaccessible from 9-11 AM EST (GMT -5) on Tuesday, May 15, 2018. Please plan your research accordingly.

The WRDS servers will be undergoing regularly scheduled maintenance from 8:00am - 11:00am EDT on Tuesday, May 15, 2018. This will affect the WRDS Cloud system and remote access to WRDS data. Web sessions may be invalidated, with a re-login required.

You will not be able to access the servers while the maintenance is in progress. WRDS Cloud jobs will not be interrupted, but access to the WRDS Cloud head nodes will be disabled for the duration of the maintenance window. PC-SAS/CONNECT sessions and WRDS SAS/STUDIO sessions will be interrupted, and will need to be restarted following the completion of the maintenance window.

Freedonia is now MarketResearch.com

Freedonia content is now available through MarketResearch.com Academic
The Freedonia Group's Focus collection contains nearly 700 market research reports covering 18 industry sectors and 17 countries. 

7th Annual Kresge Food Drive

From Friday March 30st through Friday June 1, 2018 Kresge Library Services will be hosting our 7th annual food drive for Washtenaw County food banks.  Each year during our food drives,  we have collected over 50 boxes of food thanks to the generosity of the Ross Community.  Donations include: 

• Non-perishable food products 
•  Contained in factory-sealed containers
• Currently not expired products
• Not in glass containers (most food banks avoid these as they can break in transit)
• Sealed, non used personal products (razors, tooth paste, diapers, shampoo, soap etc)

Please drop off donations on the Kresge Library Services suite (K4521) on the 4th floor of Kresge Hall, or at the front desk in the Winter Garden. 

New BCC Research Content Live in Library

BCC Research is excited to announce the addition of 230 new market research reports. Users can now access new “Market Briefs” category, which includes reports that go beyond the industries traditionally covered, including consumer-facing markets and professional services.

Additional industry coverage includes:

• Aerospace and Defense
• Financial Services
• Transportation Services
• Utilities
• Hospitality
• Retail and Wholesale
• Recreation, and more!

WRDS Downtime scheduled for March 1, 2018

During the scheduled downtime, all access methods on WRDS will be inaccessible from 9-11am on Thursday, March 1. Please plan your research accordingly. 

Rescuing Endangered Government Information - January 26

Business relies on a wide range of U.S. government data for daily decision making.  Since the beginning of the Trump Administration, access to it is changing.

On Friday, January 26^th at 2pm in Ross Room 1210, Justin Schell, Director of the Shapiro Design Lab at the University of Michigan Libraries and one of the organizers of last year’s Ann Arbor Data Rescue Event, will talk about the current availability of government information and the efforts taken to protect, preserve and maintain access to it.

Join the Special Libraries Association and Kresge Library Services at this event. For more information, see http://michigan.sla.org/2018/01/jan-26-event-rescuing-endangered-government-information-where-are-we-after-one-year/