Where can I get dissertations?

The Learning Resource Center (LRC) makes available the full text of many recent dissertations through the Dissertations & Theses database from ProQuest.

Watch this video tutorial to see how you can access the full text of the dissertation you want: http://screencast.com/t/5JhsdAVjBhe

If you cannot access the full text online, we should be able to get a copy of a dissertation through interlibrary loan (ILL).  E-mail your request to lrc@atsu.edu.

New CINAHL Interface

CINAHL from Ovid will no longer be available in 2009.  Starting in January 2009 CINAHL will only be available from EBSCO.  Don’t worry!  Many of the CINAHL search tools you’ve grown to like will still be available:  Explode, Scope notes, Search History, and Saved Searches.

Scope notes are brief definitions for subject headings.  In Ovid you could look at them by clicking on the blue I.  In EBSCO just click on the word “Scope.”

Below are some differences and how they were identified in Ovid.

 

CINAHL from EBSCO	Function	CINAHL from Ovid called it
Suggest subject terms	Find a CINAHL subject heading	Map term to subject heading
Major concept	Limits search to records where the subject heading is a major focus of the article	Focus
Qualify subheadings	Limits search to records where the subject heading includes a chosen qualifier	Subheadings
Revise/Refine search	Limit results by publication date, language, etc.	Limits
Add to Folder	Print, email, save or export search results	Results Manager

Limiting a Search in CINAHL

To see the Search History, click on “Search History/Alerts.”

Search History in CINAHL

To limit a search, click on “Revise Search” from Search History.

Revise Search

You can limit your search by checking boxes in this screen.

 

 

 

 

 

Know Your Copy Rights

Check out “Know Your Copy Rights” from the Association of Research Libraries.  It’s a website “for librarians who are developing positive educational programs for academic users of copyrighted materials in US not-for-profit institutions.”

Find a Book (In print — and E-books, too!)

I know the LRC has books, but how do I find what I’m looking for?

 The LRC has an online catalog that contains all its print and electronic books, or E-books.  You’ll find a link to the catalog near the top of the LRC’s homepage (http://www.atsu.edu/atsu/lrc/index.htm), where it says “Library Catalog.”  You can search for books either by typing in a keyword term, or the author’s name, or the title of the book.  Clicking on “Search Now” will take you to a list of results.  From here, you can click on the title of a book to take you to its catalog entry.

For print books, the catalog entry will list the alphanumeric call number of the book and tell you whether it is located in the LRC on the Reference shelf, or on the General Collection shelf, or in the Reserve collection at the LRC’s front desk.

For E-books, the catalog entry provides a clickable link that takes you directly to the book.

ILL

What does ILL mean?

ILL stands for Interlibrary Loan.  It is a process by which libraries obtain materials they don’t have from other libraries that do have them, so that an individual library doesn’t have to subscribe to every journal or buy every book for its collection.  This way, we can request articles for you that we don’t have full text for, and we can get them for you for free.

 

How do I make a request?

Near the top of the page on the LRC’s website (http://www.atsu.edu/atsu/lrc/) there is a link for our “ILL Form” (http://www.atsu.edu/atsu/lrc/form.asp).  Just click on that, fill out the form, type or paste in the citations of your articles, and click on the “Submit” button.  That will send an email to us at the LRC, and we’ll be able to fill your request(s).

 

What’s a citation?

A citation is the information that tells us what article you want and where we’ll find it.  It consists of the article’s author name, title, journal name, year of publication, volume and issue numbers, and the page numbers.  Another good piece of information to include is something called a PMID or UI.  That’s a number that helps pinpoint the article for us.  It is not always included in the information you might have about an article, but if it is, it simplifies the process if you include it in your request.

 

How long will it take for me to get an article?

Usually 1-3 business days from the time we receive your request.  This means, for instance, that if you send your request on a Friday evening, we won’t actually receive it till Monday morning.  But during the week, our turn-around times average about one-and-a-half days.

 

Do I have to come to the LRC to pick up my article?

We will send you a PDF file of the article via email.

Trouble finding full text to an article

http://www.screencast.com/t/aQeaqSflvcm

Accessing LRC Web Site from CE 6 course sites

Do not connect to the LRC website from WebCT (Blackboard).  You will not have access to many LRC resources.

You must log into the ATSU Portal (my.atsu.edu) in order to access the LRC online resources available through the website when off campus.  You will be authenticated as an ATSU student or faculty after you log into the ATSU Portal.  You must separately log into your the ATSU Portal even though you are already logged into your Web CE 6 (formally Web CT) course.  You can open both web pages and go back and forth.  We apologize for this inconvenience and are investigating ways of better integrating the extensive LRC digital resources into your online courses.