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Note: Active alumni will receive library cards and password soon!
Active Marshall University Alumni Association members can access journal articles in a wide variety of subject areas through databases similar to the ones current students, faculty and staff use.
The database may be accessed by going to this site.
Through the joint efforts of the MU Alumni Association, Marshall University Libraries and EBSCOhost Inc., active alumni may search Academic Search Alumni Edition and Business Source Alumni Edition from anywhere in the world.
Both databases are designed for the research needs of post-college professionals, who often need the same kind of information on their job as they did when taking college classes. Nearly every area of business is covered by Business Source, with over 1,350 full text magazines and journals, from scholarly to trade publications to top management journals, along with country economic and industry reports, industry reports and company profiles. Academic Search provides the full text of articles from over 2,200 publications, and indexing for more than 8,000 publications, in almost every subject area.
“The Alumni Association is pleased to be partnering with University Libraries, who are offering yet another outstanding benefit to active alumni,” said Nancy Pelphrey, coordinator of alumni programs.
Barbara Winters, dean of libraries, is thrilled to partner with the Alumni Association to offer this service. “When you want to know more about a topic, perhaps information about a company you are doing business with, or national and local politics, or details about the new Marshall movie, you can retrieve the full-text of online articles that are more reliable than most Internet sites," said Winters.
Alumni access to library databases is a growing trend in academic libraries. Marshall joins such major schools as West Virginia University, the universities of Arkansas and Minnesota and Case Western Reserve University in providing this service.
A user ID and password will be sent by the MU Alumni Association to its members. Because of the costs involved, only active members of the Association will have access to these special databases. For more information, contact the MUAA at (304) 696-3134 or (800) MU-ALUMX.
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