The new ELM portal is here!

The new ELM portal is now live and accessible via the new url, elibrarymn.org. The purpose of the new portal was to reduce the number of clicks it took to get to needed resources. Keeping the focus for the portal as a discovery tool helped achieve that goal. We have retained many of the well-used features from the old portal in the new environment such as Find a Publication, Topic Search, and the Grade Level break out of appropriate databases (under the Student Research button).

As mentioned in an earlier post, we have updated the entire ELM portfolio as well. We have a new name, eLibraryMN (same abbreviation), that reflects modern-day language and is in line with the naming scheme of other Minitex programs, a new logo, and new color palette.

Support for elm4you We will continue to support the old ELM portal through this school year to allow for as little disruption as possible. The new url, elibrarymn.org, will direct to the new portal and the link, elm4you.org, will point to the old portal. On the old portal we will have a button to Try out the New Portal!

Database Links If you have links on your website to ELM resources via elm4you.org, please note that we have changed the domain and URL used to access them. The resources have a new URL beginning with "https://content.elibrarymn.org" - if you have any questions about this change or need assistance updating your links, please contact us! We have created a guide that explains linking here.

Featured Resources We can now highlight various resources in our suite by tagging them as a Featured Resource. This will allow us to identify popular as well as lesser-used resources for people to try out and explore a little deeper than they may otherwise.

ELM Learning Center We have completely overhauled the ELM Learning Center with information for librarians supporting access to ELM resources. The database guides and tutorials have been updated as well.

Check out the new portal: elibrarymn.org!