Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies News

Changes to state-funded library research databases

July 29th, 2025

Since 1998, the Indiana State Library (ISL) has provided INSPIRE, a suite of online databases and resources, to all libraries, schools, and residents of Indiana. Due to recent budget cuts at the federal and state levels, ISL has had to renegotiate its INSPIRE contract with the library database vendor EBSCO, resulting in several EBSCO databases being replaced with lower-tier products or eliminated completely. Change in access is expected to occur on August 1. Please see our INSPIRE Libguide for more details.

Purdue Libraries has traditionally tracked the databases made available through the INSPIRE program on its discovery tools like the A-to-Z database list and will be updating those tools to reflect the changes to the INSPIRE EBSCO databases as they occur. Libraries is currently analyzing usage statistics for resources within INSPIRE to determine the most cost-effective way to provide access to eliminated content that has, up until now, been available to Purdue University at no extra cost.

Users are encouraged to use the Purdue Libraries’ interlibrary loan service to request articles no longer available via INSPIRE databases.

Please contact Rebecca Richardson, associate dean for collections and access, with questions or concerns at rarichar@purdue.edu.