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The American Psychological Association is offering introductory and advanced webinar training for one of its premier database – PsycINFO. The webinars are free and open to both students and faculty who would like to become more familiar with the APA research database and the EBSCOhost platform features. The upcoming PsycINFO webinars for EBSCOhost are being [...]

Sage Journals Online is a multidisciplinary database containing more than 570 peer reviewed journals. Previously, you had access to three Sage Full Text collections: criminology, education and psychology. Now through Sage Journals Online you have access to the journals in these collections plus over 400 additional titles covering business, nursing, public health, public administration, social [...]

We are continually looking for ways to improve the search experience. This year we are introducing Summon, the single search box with a lot of power. Summon is a search engine, similar to Google, that provides access to reliable and credible resources in the library collection. You can quickly search journal articles, ebooks, newspapers and [...]

A few databases in the library collection have simultaneous user limits, which means only a set number of individuals can be using the database at the same time. If a particular database has a user limit, a reference to the number of users allowed will be included with the database descriptions on the Databases A-Z [...]

The library usually adds to its collection by purchasing entire databases, but sometimes there is a specific journal that is so important for its field that we will buy it separately. These journals can be difficult to locate, but there are a couple options for you to find them within the Capella Library. Before I [...]

The library pays for you to get access to the full text of articles from three Sage Full Text Collections: Criminology, Education, and Psychology–as well as some stand alone journals. As many of you have noticed, you must choose “Sage Journals Available to Me“, to get only full text results. If you don’t, some of [...]

The library has added the database ProQuest Criminal Justice Periodicals Index to its holdings. This is a great new resource for all you Public Safety Learners as it covers criminal justice, law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and more. ProQuest CJPI provides access to the full text for more than 100 U.S. [...]

The librarians rarely hear that LexisNexis is a learner’s favorite database. Most of the time learners open LexisNexis and immediately think: Okay, now what the heck to I do? Sometimes I feel the exact same way. But LexisNexis has just updated their search page, and I think they’ve made it a lot easier. Instead of [...]

Most Capella Library databases default to search only the full text available to you immediately in the Capella Library. When you are working on coursework, often with tight deadlines, this is helpful. However databases also classify articles in journals to which the Capella Library does not subscribe. So how do you see those articles? In [...]

Did you know that you can find Company Profiles (including Data Monitor reports, Company History, Revenue analyses, and SWOT analyses) in Business Source Complete? When you access the Business Source Complete database (via the library’s Articles, Books, and More link), look for the More link on the dark blue bar along the top of the [...]