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.