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January 7, 2025

HAPPY 2025!
Your support team at HSLC wishes everyone a happy and successful new year!

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POWER Library Portal Maintenance Notice
The POWER Library portal will undergo maintenance on Saturday, January 11, from 8 AM to 12 PM. The portal may be unavailable during this time.
 
This maintenance is not expected to affect direct access to the Access PA ILL system, Chat with a Librarian, E-Resources, or PA Photos and Documents. 
 
As always, if you experience any issues accessing POWER Library or related services, please contact support@hslc.org.

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E-Resource Update Features New, Returning, and Continuing
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NEW E-RESOURCE COMING SOON!
Gale Academic OneFile Select covers everything from art and literature to economics and the sciences. This resource for academic research 
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integrates the full text of publications from across the disciplines and now includes vocational/technical titles used by community college students, filling a specific need for curriculum-oriented collections. Gale Academic OneFile Select provides indexing for more than 5,000 periodicals, more than 2,800 in full text without any embargo. The combination of full text for scholarly journals and selected general interest titles for smaller academic libraries is ideal. (EBSCO Academic Search Main Edition will be removed from POWER Library.)
RETURNING E-RESOURCE COMING SOON!
Gale Health and Wellness offers 24/7 access to full-text medical journals, magazines, reference works, multimedia, and much more. Perfect
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for researchers at all levels, this comprehensive consumer health resource provides authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices.

What dietary habits are associated with developing adult-onset diabetes? Are antioxidants really effective? What new advances have been made in the treatment of HIV/ AIDS? Gale Health and Wellness is your first-stop resource for answers to these and other health-related questions.
The new and returning e-resources are not yet available on POWER Library sites or the Links Generator. They will automatically appear in the List All, By Subject, and POWER Teens when they are available. 
CONTINUING E-RESOURCES!
AP Newsroom presents the greatest events in world history with photographs, audio sound bites, video, and graphics, for over 185 
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years. Over 3,000 photos, images, sound bites, and graphics are added daily, including audio and visual snapshots.
GALE OneFile News lets you browse and read full-text newspapers from more than 2,300 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, plus 
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leading titles from around the world, or search articles instantly by title, headline, date, author, newspaper section, or other fields. News also includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts, and transcripts.
Science Reference Source includes hundreds of full text science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other reliable 
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sources. View more than 280,000 high-quality science images from sources such as UPI, Getty, NASA, National Geographic, and the Nature Picture Library. 
E-Resources not noted above were not considered in this procurement and will be continuing in POWER Library. 

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EBSCO User Interface To Be Updated On January 7
EBSCO will be updating the user interface for several databases. The update will occur automatically, and no action is required from library staff. Affected databases are those on the EBSCOhost platform, which will transition to the EXPLORA user interface.
 
Important Notes:
  • This update will not affect the POWER Library database links.
  • Libraries will not need to make any changes to their websites as a result of this update.
  • If your institution has user documentation for these databases, it may need to be updated.
If your institution provides user documentation, that documentation may need to be updated. 

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  3. In your primary browser, delete your browsing history, close and reopen your browser, and then try to access the resource.
If those steps do not work, please contact support and we'll help you get the issue resolved.

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