University Library News

If you’re a researcher using Georgia State University Library’s databases, we have important news about upgrades to our system that may affect your research process.

We realize that some of you are making advanced use of the function in our list of databases that allows you to save citations and databases. Specifically, this blog post refers to the option to save citations and databases within our top-level list of databases, NOT within the individual databases themselves. Rather than catch you off guard when classes begin, we want to give you some advance notice so you can export your files as soon as possible.

Beginning Monday, August 15, 2011 Georgia State University Library transitioned to Discover, a simple search box that quickly locates books, articles, journals, media and unique collections simultaneously. Discover is lightning fast and allows you to customize results for your research purposes.

Those of you saving databases and citations at this top-level have two things to be aware of:

1. Researchers will no longer be able to search their saved databases.
2. In our new Discover system, researchers will be able to save citations. However, you will still have access to your previously saved citations at the top-level of the list of databases. You should export them for later use. You can email them to yourself, download them as text files, or even export them to bibliographic software like EndNote and Zotero.

While we’re losing these two features, our statistics show that only a small population of researchers are utilizing them. The implementation of Discover however, will change your research efforts dramatically, hopefully making it faster and easier to access the information you need.