Find It Virginia

Access Video: Just For Kids – provides ad-free, high quality streaming educational videos, from read-alouds to TV shows like Arthur and the Berenstain Bears.  Device agnostic, mobile friendly.

Brainfuse – provides live tutoring and coaching from 2-11 pm, as well as: practice tests and study plans for students K-college (HelpNow); unemployment assistance, résumé templates, career assessments, and test prep resources and practice tests and career credentialing information for over 140 specific careers (JobNow); and help with veteran's benefits and resources as well as transitioning from a military to civilian career (VetNow).

EBSCO – Find It Virginia includes several EBSCO resources

• Explora is a user-friendly search tool that supports both research and instruction for adults and older students. Explora searches across the following resources. Both these resources can be offered as stand-alone links.
  • MasterFILE Complete is a comprehensive collection of full-text general interest articles from periodicals, newspapers, and books. This authoritative general information database is the best place to start your research project.
  • ReadIt! helps students who have a basic foundation in English grammar and reading but need level-appropriate reading material. Read It! is also a great tool for English Language Learners.
• NoveList Plus and K-8 Plus: Readers’ advisory resources for readers of all ages
• Accel5 Business Library: Curated videos, book reviews, and articles for self-paced learning in the business and management fields

Gale (product specific information and specific product URL found in each hyperlink)

• Gale Legal Forms: Compendium of fillable legal forms for the Commonwealth of VA
• Gale in Context: Elementary:  K-5 general knowledge database

Magzter:

Digital magazine collection provided through WT Cox. Provides access to over 4000 magazines.

Transparent Language Online:

140+ foreign languages including over 20 indigenous languages, American Sign Language and Citizenship Prep – asynchronous learning.

Universal Class:

Self-paced, accredited courses on everything from dog walking to computer technology to small business skills.

Many of the Find It VA vendors offer a variety of print and digital marketing assets, including social media posts, flyers, bookmarks, etc. See the links below for resource-specific marketing content.

• Access Video Just for Kids
  • Marketing resources
• Brainfuse (Homework HelpNow, JobNow, VetNow
  • Client Resource Center:
    • Resource Center Password:  Br@1*5e^19
• EBSCO (Accel5, Explora, MasterFile, Read It!, NoveList Plus)
  • Accel5
  • Explora
  • MasterFile
  • NoveList
  • Read It!
• Gale
  • Gale in Context Elementary
  • Gale Legal Forms
• Magzter
  • Access the WT Cox Magzter marketing materials page.
  • Download a “how to” flyer for Magzter (thanks to Henrico County PL for generously sharing their flyer to be adapted for all VA libraries)
• Transparent Language Online
  • Marketing materials
• Universal Class
  • Promotional Materials for Universal Class from Transparent Language Online.

The information below will allow libraries to collect statistical data for their local use of resources provided through Find It Virginia. If you do not have login credentials or have difficulty accessing the admin portals, please contact Barry Trott, barry.trott@lva.virginia.gov 

Please note: Local statistics are not available for the following Find It Virginia resources: Accel5 Business Library.

Access Video Just for Kids

1. Login to the Infobase admin portal (https://admin.infobase.com) with your admin credentials
2. Click Reports
3. Click Infobase Usage Report > Go to Report
4. Set date parameters in Report Range popup window and click Run Report
5. Report Views

Brainfuse

1. Login to the Brainfuse (https://www.brainfuse.com/login) site with your admin credentials
2. Click Legacy Usage Reports
3. In the report window select the following options:
   1. Under the Home Menu, choose one of the three LVA-provided databases (HelpNow, JobNow, VetNow)
   2. Reporting period: choose the appropriate period
4. Click Filter
5. Get the Total Usage
6. Repeat for other LVA-provided two databases
7. Report the Total Usage for all three LVA-provided databases

EBSCO

1. Login to the EBSCO Admin site (https://eadmin.ebscohost.com) with your admin credentials
2. Click the Reports & Statistics tab
3. Click Standard Reports
4. In the report window select the following options:
   1. Under Filters, choose All Subscribed Databases and click Select/View
   2. In the selection window, click Remove All
   3. Use the search tool in the selection window to choose the LVA databases (as well as any other EBSCO content that your institution subscribes to on its own). When you find a database in the search results double click it to move it over to the filtered collection (on the right side of the window). The LVA databases to select are:
      • MasterFILE Complete
      • MasterFILE Reference eBook Collection
      • NoveList Plus
      • NoveList Plus K-8
      • Read It!
      • Topic Overviews 6-12 (add results to MasterFILE number)
      • Topic Overviews Public Libraries (add results to MasterFILE number)
5. Click Apply Changes
6. Under Reporting Period set the appropriate date parameters
7. Under Export choose Download
8. Click Create Report for Download
9. Click the Downloads tab
10. Download the report as Excel
11. Report the Total Requests for each resource

Gale (Legal Forms, Gale in Context: Elementary)

1. Login to the Gale Usage Dashboard (https://support.gale.com/usagedashboard) using your institutional login and password
2. Click the Reports tab
3. Under Reports For FindItVirginia choose Products
4. Under the Current Period heading set start and end dates
5. Under the Metrics heading select Retrievals
6. Click Apply
7. Report retrievals for Legal Forms and Gale in Context: Elementary

Magzter

1. Access the admin dashboard at https://librarian.magzter.com/ using the username and password sent to your library.
2. If prompted, select your library from the library menu.
3. Report the total usage for the desired reporting period.

Transparent Language Online

1. Go to your library’s Transparent Language page
2. Login with the admin user and p/w combination that was sent to your library
3. Choose Admin Portal from the dropdown menu in the upper right of the page
4. Choose the reports tab
5. To create a report, click the Generate New link and choose the reports type (Summary Report will give you all the data you need for Bibliostat-level reporting)
6. Set the date range for your report
7. Leave the reporting group selections as they are set
8. Report the Circulations figure

Universal Class

Be sure to get stats from both the native Universal Class admin tool and from Overdrive (through 9/30/24; beginning 10/1/24, Overdrive will no longer offer Universal Class through the Libby app)

1. Login to your library’s Universal Class admin page (if you need help with your account access, email supportservices@universalclass.com)
   1. Click your library name under Site Management
   2. Click Site Reporting
   3. Set your date range
   4. Add totals for Courses Started, Lessons Viewed, Videos Watched, Student Submissions
2. Overdrive
   1. Login into Overdrive Marketplace (https://marketplace.overdrive.com/) using your LVA login and password
   2. Go to Insights
   3. Click Checkouts
   4. Run new report with these parameters:
   5. Checkouts by month
   6. Format=Ext: Subscription
   7. Get total Universal Class use
3. Add total from Universal class native (1.d.) and Overdrive (2.g.)