Stories from the Stacks: The Krueger Library Blog

07/03/2025

Amanda Pruka

Library and Information Science

Krueger library has a new way to search for books, music, dissertations and other resources from around the world: WorldCat Discovery

WorldCat Discovery is a new interface for the WorldCat database. Materials can be found and requested via interlibrary loan (Resource Sharing).

WorldCat FirstSearch

WorldCat FirstSearch is still available! Find a link on the Databases A-Z page and the Search Overview page.

If you would like to bookmark the page, use this URL: http://wsuproxy.mnpals.net/login?url=https://firstsearch.oclc.org/fsip?dbname=WorldCat

FirstSearch vs WorldCat Discovery

FirstSearch and WorldCat Discovery both search the WorldCat database. While there are some small differences in indexing, which you use is mostly personal preference. Both interfaces will remain on the library website as long as the vendor supports them.

Explora Searches for K-12

05/01/2025

Amanda Pruka

Education, Physical Education and Sports Science (PESS), Special Education, Early Childhood and Elementary Education

We have created several combined searches of EBSCO databases related to education. The Explora databases are intended for a K-12 audience and are designed to be browsable. Databases for Educators is a combined search of commonly used databases for teachers, professors, and other education professionals. Find each search on the Databases A-Z page and on research guides.

EBSCO: Databases for Educators

Searches across several databases with considerable content in education: ERIC, Education Full Text, the Professional Development Collection, PsycInfo and PsycArticles.

Explora Kids

Elementary school-appropriate magazines, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and images. Databases Included: Primary Search,, Topic Overview K-5, and Primary Search Reference eBooks.

Explora Secondary (Middle School)

Browse and search across three databases, each intended for a middle school audience: Middle Search Plus, Middle Search Reference eBook Collection, and Topic Overviews 6-12.

Explora High School

Browse and search across several databases with the intended audience of high school and young adult. Databases include: MAS Reference eBook Collection, Newspaper Source, Points of View Reference Source, Science Reference Source, Topic Overviews 6-12 and World Politics Review.

New Business Searching Interface for Business Source Premier

05/01/2025

Amanda Pruka

No Subjects

Business Source Premier gets a new Business Searching interface.

Business Source Premier is upgrading their specialty interface, the Business Searching Interface. Krueger Library is set to launch the new interface on Monday, May 12th, 2025.

Preview the new BSI interface. https://research.ebsco.com/c/sv3f42?db=buh

See an overview from the vendor, EBSCO: New Business Searching Interface Overview.

Standard Research Interface vs Business Searching Interface

Business Search Premier will continue to be available on two separate interfaces: Standard Research Interface and the Business Searching Interface. Both will continue to be available on the Databases A-Z page. These two interfaces have the same content. The BSI has more browsing features, such as sections for SWOTs, case studies, country and company reports.

New Business Searching Interface Overview

New search interfaces for EBSCO

12/20/2024

Amanda Pruka

No Subjects

EBSCO, the database vendor for CINAHL. Academic Search Premier, ERIC, America: History and Life, PsycArticles and more, has updated their search interface. While it looks very different, the content is same.

See all EBSCO databases: EBSCO Databases

A few notable changes:

The URLs at the top of the page are now permalinks. The old permalinks should continue to work.
The most commonly used filters appear on the main page for both the basic and advanced menu.
Subject Thesauri, such as the APA Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms and the CINAHL Subject Headings, appear as a column in the Advanced Menu, rather than a tab at the top of the page.

We are working with EBSCO to make a few changes, such as:

Request to have the Cited In option available again.

Krueger FAQs

We are updating Krueger Library's FAQ page as issues and questions arise: EBSCO FAQs

Tutorials from EBSCO

Advanced Search Guide

New search interface for EBSCO databases

11/18/2024

Amanda Pruka

Health, Exercise, and Rehabilitative Sciences (HERS), Nursing, Library and Information Science, Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP)

On December 19th, EBSCOhost is rolling out a new search interface for most of its databases. EBSCO is the vendor of CINAHL, Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier and many more.

While the databases look very different, the content has not changed. All of the same journals, books, and other resources are still available from the databases.

A few of the access options will be turned off until we move fully to the new interfaces. However, the databases are fully functional. Try them now:

Academic Search Premier
Business Source Premier*
CINAHL Ultimate
ERIC
PsycArticles
PsycInfo
World Politics Review
All EBSCO Metasearch (search of all EBSCO databases)

See a complete listing of all EBSCO databases on our A-Z page. Note that a few of the databases, such as Learning Express, Points of View Reference Source, and those intended for K-12 audience, will have a different interface.

*Business Source Premier will continue to be available with the Business Searching Interface and the new searching interface. Both options will appear on the A-Z list.

Comments/Questions

If you have any problems accessing content, please contact the library at library@winona.edu

See our EBSCO related FAQs.

New EBSCO Tutorials

Minnesota Shared Print Program, Stories from the Krueger Library's Share

02/01/2024

Vernon Leighton

Library and Information Science

For many years, library leaders in Minnesota have worked to create a distributed research collection in the state. In 2022, the state agency Minitex provided funding to support this effort, in what is called the Minnesota Shared Print Program. Twenty-four Minnesota libraries have joined together and are committed to retain over a half-million print books which are scarcely-held in Minnesota, which we are calling the Minnesota Shared Print Collection. Winona State’s share of this collection is about sixteen thousand titles. As we label the books, we have found interesting stories about our collection. Here are stories from the Winona State share of the collection.

Story 1: Polymer Composites at WSU

Story 2: Boolean: AND, OR, ... NOT!

Story 3: Winona Normal School: the First Teacher’s College West of the Mississippi.

Story 4: Beer and Philosophy

Story 5: Retained Books versus Notable Books

Story 6: Who’s afraid of J. Edgar Hoover?

Story 7: Book Donations to the Library

Story 8: Preserving All Voices

Story 9: Lean Management

Story 10: The Economy of Bangladesh

Story 11: A Bible on the List

Story 12: WSU Authors