The good news: Kansas academic library database subscriptions can continue without a single day of disruption. Infobase is ready to make that happen directly with your institution, on terms built around your budget.
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The statewide contract is narrowing. Your institution’s access doesn’t have to.
Starting August 1, the State Library of Kansas’s new contract funds only Issues & Controversies. Bloom’s Literature, Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center, Health Reference Center, InfoLaunch, InfoLaunch Elementary, The Mailbox Plus, Today’s Science, and World News Digest move outside that agreement when the current contract closes on August 31. The State Library of Kansas made this decision as part of its own budget priorities.
We understand how important these resources are to your campus community, from an undergraduate working on a Bloom’s-backed research paper to a graduating senior using Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center to plan life after commencement. To help your institution maintain access with minimal disruption, Infobase is offering direct subscriptions at discounted pricing, and we can have coverage in place before the current contract ends.
Students and faculty notice access.
Most students and faculty will never think about whether a database is procured at the local or state level, but they will notice when access disappears. Subscribing directly puts your institution in control of the timeline instead of a statewide procurement cycle, and Infobase already has the pricing, training, and account relationship in place to make the switch simple.
ACRL’s Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education names source evaluation and research habits as core learning outcomes for undergraduates. Maintaining consistent access to these resources is part of delivering on that framework.
Literary criticism, author biographies, and thematic essays that give students a contextualized starting point for literary analysis. Book clubs and returning students lean on it just as often as high schoolers with an assigned essay.
Career exploration, résumé support, and labor-market data for anyone rethinking their next job, whether that's an undecided first-year student exploring majors or a graduate student planning life after their degree.
Plain-language, medically reviewed health information for students and staff who need a reliable first stop after a doctor's visit, versus an unverified search result.
A searchable historical record of world events, valuable for everything from a political science research paper to a journalism student building a historical timeline.
Current, curriculum-aligned science content that turns a passing question into an actual research session, useful for students in gen-ed STEM courses and faculty building current-events discussion into their syllabi.
Classroom-ready materials for teachers, homeschool parents, and early-childhood educators. Schools of Education rely on it to prepare student teachers for licensure placements and practicum coursework.
Designed to teach research skills alongside answers. For Kansas's teacher-education and early-childhood programs, it also doubles as a model of how research tools are introduced in elementary classrooms, which pre-service teachers can study directly.
The entry point for the youngest researchers, built for kids who are still learning what a credible source even looks like. It pairs directly with InfoLaunch, giving Schools of Education a continuous example of age-based research scaffolding to reference in coursework and student-teaching placements.
To support Kansas institutions during this transition, we are honoring these special statewide prices through December 31, 2026.
Institutions that secure their subscriptions by August 31, 2026, will ensure their students and faculty experience continuous access without any service interruption, while also locking in this preferred pricing.
In addition to cost savings, subscribers will benefit from customer service which includes:
Subscribing directly with Infobase means benefitting from the partnership directly.
Infobase builds every one of its products around a specific commitment: teaching students how to wisely find, evaluate, and produce information in ways that develop information literacy skills. Bloom’s Literature models what critical analysis looks like instead of offering shortcuts, giving students practice weighing sources before they build an argument. Credo Reference and the World News Digest Archive extend that same habit into general research and historical inquiry, so a student’s first research assignment builds directly toward the source-evaluation skills ACRL’s Framework identifies as core to undergraduate learning.
That design choice is deliberate.
The window for uninterrupted access is limited. Contact your Infobase representative today details on product packages.
