To maintain the currency and security of ProQuest products, the vendor is performing maintenance on many products beginning on January 19, 2019. During the maintenance window U.S. Newsstream will be temporarily unavailable. The downtime is scheduled for Saturday, January 19, 2019 at 9:00 pm Central Time. Maintenance will conclude within 8 hours.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
For educators or librarians looking to search across all three Core Collections databases at once, we now offer the Core Collections Complete; an excellent collection development, curriculum support, readers' advisory, and reference resource. This interface makes it easy to browse award-winning books, get ideas for book displays and book lists, and see a title's recommendation. View featured books, locate similar titles, and read reviews!
We hope this interface simplifies your library's collection development for preschool through high school readers.
Reach out if you have any questions!
The BadgerLink Team is pleased to announce the availability of Newspapers.com Library Edition - World Collection!
Wisconsin residents now have access to historical newspapers from the 1700s - 2000s. Newspapers.com contains thousands of well-known regional, state, and small local newspapers in the United States and other countries. There are 150 Wisconsin-specific titles including the Janesville Daily Gazette, the Racine Daily Herald, the Eau Claire Leader, and many more. New content is continually added as it becomes available.
Newspapers.com allows users to browse and read historic newspaper content directly from their web browser or mobile device as well as save or print clippings. Newspaper content is presented in its original form, so overall context is preserved. All the pages on Newspapers.com have been indexed using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) which allows users to search for specific names and keywords across all available papers.
Newspapers.com joins the Archive of Wisconsin Newspapers and U.S. Newsstream to provide Wisconsin residents with a robust collection of newspaper content, both current and historic. Take a look at our Wisconsin Newspapers in BadgerLink Title List for a complete listing of Wisconsin newspapers available in BadgerLink.
U.S. Newsstream contains current and archival United States news coverage dating back to the 1980s. This new-to-BadgerLink resource features key national and regional sources including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, Chicago Tribune and over 80 Gannett titles like the Appleton Post-Crescent and the Green Bay Press Gazette. Content is updated daily, with same-day publication access to over 250 titles. U.S. Newsstream includes newswires, news journals, television and radio transcripts, blogs, podcasts, and digital-only websites.
To get started researching in U.S. Newsstream access at https://badgerlink.dpi.wi.gov/resource/us-newsstream and learn more with ProQuest’s Libguide at http://proquest.libguides.com/newsstream/about.
Bonus! See Wisconsin Newspapers in BadgerLink for titles included in Archive of Wisconsin Newspapers, Newspapers.com Library Edition World Collection (forthcoming), and U.S. Newsstream.
Teachers and professors recommend (newspaper research). According to a recent ProQuest survey, (88%) of researchers who also teach recommend newspapers to their students, indicating the value of newspapers for all levels of research. *
Broaden your scope for insight and understanding. News content provides critical context to broaden researchers' scope for insight and learning. Issues and events can be examined within the framework of concurrent issues and events as they unfold.*
In a move to enhance privacy and security standards for all customers, EBSCO is requiring the use of strong passwords for all accounts using User ID/Password for authentication. Passwords will now have expiration dates and may be as soon as October 1, 2018, and as late as December 31, 2019. Read more about this change on the EBSCO support site.
So how does this affect BadgerLink?
Within the BadgerLink authentication system, we use your account’s EBSCO User ID and Password in order to provide access to our licensed EBSCO databases. If your Password changes and we haven’t made the update on our end, your users will temporarily lose access to those resources. Once Passwords are set, they will be valid for 365 days. This does not affect how you normally access our resources, nor will patrons, students, or home users be required to do anything!
As a Library or School Administrator what should I do?
Every EBSCO account has an administrative contact, and this person will receive an email from EBSCO regarding your Password expiration. Please contact BadgerLink at https://badgerlink.dpi.wi.gov/contact-us with the date (and time if possible) that it will change. If you are a Public Library, contact your System first as we are partnering with them to coordinate this process.
Just added - step-by-step instructions for library, school, or other statewide organizations.
While we anticipate some accounts may temporarily lose access for longer than desired, we hope that by coordinating this change together, we can reduce any disruption in service.
Thank you for helping with this new EBSCO security requirement. In the meantime let us know if you have any questions!
Drum roll, please: new resources are now available in BadgerLink! We appreciate your patience as we rolled out these new resources after completing the BadgerLink Request for Bid procurement process over the summer. Without further ado:
Britannica Digital Learning has added Britannica Library, a comprehensive reference and learning resource for children and adults. Similar to Britannica School but suitable for public library patrons, this edition offers 3 distinct interfaces and reading levels in one site. Britannica School will continue to be available through BadgerLink.
EBSCO will now provide 7 new, upgraded resources.
We will be removing access to Auto Repair Reference Center, Book Collection Nonfiction: Elementary, Middle & High School Editions; Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts; and MasterFILE Premier after October 5, 2018.
Newspapers.com Library Edition World Collection and U.S. Newsstream should be ready in the coming weeks. We apologize for the delay.
To be notified when the remaining new resources are available, sign up for email alerts. We welcome all feedback and questions, so please contact us!
As part of the recent BadgerLink Request for Bid process, a few exciting changes are in the works. These new resources are not yet available, but will be soon!
Britannica Digital Learning has added Britannica Library, a comprehensive reference and learning resource for children and adults. Similar to Britannica School but suitable for public library patrons, this edition offers 3 distinct interfaces and reading levels in one site.
EBSCO will now provide 6 new, upgraded resources.
ProQuest will offer 2 new resources.
We're looking forward to making this new content available! To be notified when these resources are ready, sign up for email alerts. We welcome all feedback and questions, so please contact us!
We’ve heard from a number of libraries and genealogists who are concerned they may be losing access to resources they value and want to reassure Wisconsin libraries and patrons that BadgerLink will continue to provide access to historic newspapers and genealogy content from Wisconsin and beyond.
While the contract for Access NewspaperARCHIVE will not be continued, the Department is contracting with ProQuest to provide historic newspapers via Newspapers.com Library Edition World Collection. Access NewspaperARCHIVE is no longer provided through BadgerLink, and Newspapers.com Library Edition World Collection will be available as soon as possible. We are confident the Newspapers.com interface and ProQuest customer support will be a step forward for BadgerLink users. The collection contains newspapers from around the world, not just Wisconsin. Once a contract is signed, DPI will share the full title list.
Our current vendor of genealogy/local history resources, HeritageQuest Online, will continue to be our genealogy collection provider. Access to their resources will continue without interruption.
The contracts should be finalized in the next few weeks and we will continue to provide updates about our resources on the Badger Bulletin as well as the Wisconsin Libraries for Everyone Blog. We are working to restore access to historic newspapers as quickly as possible and apologize for any inconvenience.
To receive email notifications about our updates, sign up at https://badgerlink.dpi.wi.gov/subscribe. Contact us at https://badgerlink.dpi.wi.gov/contact-us with any questions.
The Department of Public Instruction is signing contracts for BadgerLink resources selected through the Request for Bid (RFB) led by the Department of Administration. DPI is eager to update and enhance BadgerLink resources, and plans to release them as soon as possible, and hopefully within weeks.
However, because of the cost of the selected resources is greater than the current BadgerLink budget, DPI will not be able to sign contracts for all the Collections included in the RFB (read more about the Collections in the BadgerLink Procurement Update dated 7/3/2018). Decisions about which Collections will be purchased are still being made. They are being based on feedback from the library community, usage patterns and the availability of other resources that generally meet the same needs.
At this time, the Department of Public Instruction has determined that it will not be licensing the Cengage LitFinder database, which has been a part of BadgerLink since 2008 and Transparent Languages Online from Recorded Books, which represented a new content area, vendor and product. The previous LitFinder contract ended 6/30/2017 and therefore this resource is no longer available.
The RFB Cooperative Purchasing clause allows municipally funded library (including public libraries, the Wisconsin Public Library Consortium, the CESA Support Network and libraries represented by the System and Resource Library Administrator’s Association of Wisconsin) to contract with selected vendors for the selected resources at the same rates vendors agreed to in the RFB process. Any library organization interested in exploring that option can contact Martha.Berninger@dpi.wi.gov for more information. Please bear in mind that DPI is not able to share any information about unsuccessful bids submitted by vendors not selected.
Thank you for your interest in the future of BadgerLink and your support. DPI will share regular updates on the process.
The BadgerLink Team would like to announce that Access NewspaperARCHIVE is no longer available. This resource had been a part of the BadgerLink contracts that ran through 6/30/2018, and was not awarded for Collection 4: Historic Newspapers during our recent request for bid process. Read more about the current status here https://badgerlink.dpi.wi.gov/bulletin/2018/06/badgerlink-procurement-update-732018.
Update: Newspapers.com Library Edition World Collection is now available.
Thank you,
Martha Berninger, Ben Miller & Elizabeth Neuman