Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM)
Minitex News articles tagged with "Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM)" (163):
Free Lexile workshops for educators and librarians coming this March
Here’s a note from our friends at MN Department of Education on a series of upcoming in-person Lexile workshops being held around the state. Lexile scores provide a quantitative measure of text complexity.
Order ELM promotional materials today!
Did you know that you can get ELM bookmarks, brochures, and other promotional materials delivered to you for free? Please help us to share ELM by requesting some of these materials today.
New MNLINK, episode 8; Finding ELM databases
Have you noticed the database collection limiters on the MNLINK homepage? Clicking on one of the Research Collections will take you to the MNLINK Advanced Search with a select set of ELM databases related to the specific subjects.
New Video Content in Gale Kids InfoBits
from Gale:
Gale is pleased to announce that we’ve added approximately 560 educational videos to Kids InfoBits, with dozens more to come in the next few weeks.
New MNLINK, episode 3; Finding articles in ELM
The new MNLINK provides easier access to the Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) than the old MNLINK. No login is required to access ELM content because we're using the existing proxy authentication.
EBSCO K-12 Database Changes
Be advised, school library friends, EBSCO has discontinued the following interfaces:
ProQuest Service Alert August 20 - 21
Over the weekend of Saturday-Sunday, 20 -21 Aug. 2016, a ProQuest product maintenance window will launch worldwide to upgrade infrastructure, enhance security, and maintain reliability of your products.
New Interface: Britannica Academic Edition
Britannica Academic features a new interface as of July. The home page presents some of the most relevant research tools for college students and allows for targeted searching and browsing of the database.
Informe Academico: Interface language
In the past, Gale provided two different links to Informe Academico, a database of mostly Spanish-language periodicals. One of those links went to an interface written in Spanish, the other to an interface in English. A recent change from Gale collapses those two interfaces into one.