It’s Sunday night about 11 p.m. One of your students has a paper due Monday morning at 9 a.m. and is in a panic about creating the works cited page using the correct MLA format. Where do they go? To the library of course . . . we’re always open on the Web.
Clueless about MLA and APA? From the Library’s Web page check out the links to MLA Citations, APA Citations and NoodleBib. The MLA and APA Citations provide examples of the most frequently used sources. NoodleBib is a Web-based bibliography composer or a “fill-in-the-blank” bibliography tool. Students still need to be able to supply the author, title, volume, page numbers, etc. but NoodleBib correctly formats the information in either the MLA or APA format. NoodleBib also includes a note-taking component that helps organize information gathered during the research process.
While you’re on the library’s Web page, check out a book—literally! Last year 8,667 people checked out books from the DCCCD libraries without ever stepping into a library building to pick up their books. They are readers of the library’s eBooks, electronic books from netLibrary that you can read anytime, anywhere. And with 28,626 full-text electronic books available through the library catalog, it’s hard to keep these books on the shelves.
And, although you may have already had your “Google” for the day or you may be a closet Wikipedia user, there’s another world of information for you and your students to explore: databases—150 to be exact.
With Ebsco’s Academic Search Complete containing full-text articles from 4,600 scholarly publications and InfoTrac’s OneFile with more than 60 million articles …. It’s enough to make you go in circles. With so many choices, where do you start?
Search 360 is the latest tool for searching multiple-databases simultaneously. Fifty of our databases most closely aligned with the DCCCD’s curriculum are part of this single search solution. Search 360 allows you to search a keyword, author or title across all 50 databases at one time. Search 360 also gives you the option to customize your search by type of publication (i.e. peer-reviewed scholarly journals) or by a subject grouping of journals (i.e. health and medicine).
So, whether your students are in an online humanities course using the Grove Art Online or Grove Music for their research project or enrolled in an English for Speakers of Other Languages course researching other cultures in CultureGrams Online or working on an argument paper for English 1301 using Opposing Viewpoints, check out the novel ways we’ve got you covered.
Check us out! We’re always open on the Web.
