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Alexander Street Press resource links: off-campus access

(June 10, 2013)  If you are off-campus & follow a link to a music or other title (via PILOT, or OneSearch) you will be taken to an Alexander Street "Authorization Login" page.  On that page, you have no choice for "West Chester University" - so you're stuck.

You CAN, however, get into any Alexander Street Press database from off-campus.  So the workaround is to:

1. make note of the title (e.g. Purcell Fairy Queen)
2. go to the database - e.g. Music Online (see http://subjectguides.wcupa.edu/librarydatabases )
3. search & access the resource there

Questions?  Need Help?  Ask a Librarian

& we'll post a notice here when the problem is resolved.  thank you for your patience....

 

SPSS on Library Computers

The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) will be loaded on all computers by the Fall. Students have asked for this over the years and now the new computers come with the software pre-installed. Currently all work stations with the new big (23”) monitors, have SPSS. Where are they?

11 in the Reference area along the window-wall next to the quiet study area; 2 in Government and Maps; 30 in Instruction room 309; 5 in the QVC Collaborative Study Area; 4 in Serials; 3 in IMC; 1 in Children's Library and 1 each on floors 3,4,5 right off the elevator.