Updating Resources — “How often are resources updated?
Specific WGU Library Web pages (with the WGU logo) are updated by WGU webmasters/librarians whenever there is a change in information and services. The Library subscribes to several databases and services (FirstSearch, Academic Search Premier, Safari, and many more). The links to these databases are on the Library pages. Most resources are on the Find Articles and Find Books pages. We purchase these resources from vendors through annual subscriptions and obtain licenses to allow the WGU community to use them for educational purposes. Each vendor updates their database daily, weekly, or monthly, depending on their particular policies with publishers. The Help links on their pages will tell you exactly when each one updates. Material is published in journals and then loaded into the appropriate databases in an ongoing process, seamless to the users. That is why you may retrieve a higher result for a search one day than the month before.
