Library Access

By Robert Walling and John Hickey
The Foundation Center database, which has information on more than half a million available financial grants and scholarships in the sciences, the arts and the humanities, is now accessible from the West Virginia University at Parkersburg Library, which has acquired the sole license to the database in the Mid-Ohio Valley.

Wireless Internet access is now available on campus in the WVUP Library and in the Student Lounge, said Dan Williamson, Director of Computer Services.

Williamson also said that some students are running into problems using off-campus access to some of the WVUP Library’s databases. Some students have been unable to get off-campus access to Lexis-Nexis, the Encyclopedia Britannica Online, American National Biography, Ebrary, and Oxford Reference Online. Access has been unimpeded to the WVUP Library catalog, the EbscoHost periodical database, the New York Times, the ACLS History E-Book Project, the Naxos Music Library (use "wvup" for both username and password), NetLibrary, and the Association for Computing Machinery’s Online Books Program.

Williamson says that Computer Services is working to analyze the problem. He speculates that the problem may be in the interface between WVU’s servers and particular Internet service providers. He wants to identify which ISPs are being used when access is blocked.

Dan Williamson can be contacted at dan.williamson@mail.wvu.edu, at (304) 424-8000, ext. 436, or in his office, Room 1202.