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Got Questions?

Have you checked the FAQ page?

Database vendor contact information

research assistantEmail the Help Desk at nyslnovel@nysed.gov

Call the Help Desk:
Toll-free (877) 277-0250
Capital District (518) 486-6012

The New York State Library staffs the NOVELNY Help Desk Monday through Friday. Staff answer questions regarding access, searching techniques, and troubleshooting.

Report Problem with a Database

In order to better serve NOVELNY customers, the NOVELNY vendors (Gale, ProQuest and Scholastic) now support libraries by directly answering questions related to their products.

The following types of questions can be answered by the NOVELNY Help Desk:

  • Registration
  • General how-to´s
  • Questions about the NOVELNY program and databases

The following types of questions should be directed to the individual vendors:

  • Updates in contact information (contact person, e-mail address, phone number, etc.)
  • IP updates
  • Requests for URLs, usernames and passwords
  • Statistics
  • Remote access

Geolinks

For geolinks for all of the NOVELNY databases, please see the Gale support portal at http://galesupport.com/novelny and click on Direct Database URLs

Vendor contact information:

Gale:

ProQuest: support.proquest.com (to submit questions online) or tsupport@proquest.com or 1-800-889-3358 or proquest.com/go/migrate to chat

Scholastic: scholasticcustomersupport@scholastic.com or 1-888-326-6546 option 4

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Revised January 15, 2016