ECCS ORIENTATION

Kelly Kobiela, Systems Librarian

Heterick Memorial Library

WELCOME TO THE LIBRARY

Kelly Kobiela, k-kobiela@onu.edu

Jenny Donley, j-donley.1@onu.edu

Traci Moritz, t-moritz@onu.edu

Kathleen Baril, k-baril@onu.edu

Reference Email, reference@onu.edu

Librarians on duty:

Monday – Thursday 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM

6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Friday 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM

121 PERSONAL RESEARCH CONSULTATIONS

Need a little extra help with your research?

Finding plenty of resources, but not exactly what you are looking for?

Has it been suggested by instructor to meet with a librarian?

An in-depth research consultation with the librarian of your choice is available by appointment.

Sessions may run for 30-60 minutes and are designed to assist students with finding and evaluating resources

Schedule an appointment by emailing reference@onu.edu or any librarian

More information

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LIBRARIES AT ONU

Heterick Memorial Library

Undergraduate library and accessible to all students

Taggart Law Library

Library for law school and accessible to all students

WHAT THE LIBRARY OFFERS:

~400,000 items in POLAR, the ONU library catalog

~20,000,000 items in OhioLink

260 Databases

400+ print periodicals

Tens of thousands of electronic journal titles

Juvenile, Young Adult, and Graphic Novel

collections

DVDs, CDs, streaming audiovisuals, and streaming

music

CATALOGS – BOOKS AND MEDIA

POLAR Catalog – Search for physical and electronic items

(ebooks and ejournals) that are available from Heterick

Memorial Library and Taggart Law Library

FIND A BOOK – POLAR: KEYWORD SEARCH

Looks in several locations

Subject

Article title

Abstracts

Table of contents

Does not require an exact match

Generates comparatively large number of hits

Good if you are not familiar with terminology

Good for a beginning search

FIND A BOOK – POLAR: SUBJECT SEARCH

Looks at the subject headings in the records

Requires an exact match

Provides a results list with related headings to use

for broader and narrower searches

Generates comparatively smaller number of hits

Good if you are familiar with terminology

Good for a next step after a keyword search

CATALOG – KEYWORD TO SUBJECT

CATALOG – KEYWORD TO SUBJECT

POLAR – RESULTS

ebook

Law Library

Heterick Library

CHECKING OUT ITEMS

Checkout and due dates

Book check out is for 21 days

DVD check out is for 7 days

Renewals

Up to 6 renewals, provided no one else has put a hold

on the item

Fines

$.10 - $2.00, depending on how overdue and what type

of item

Can be paid at the circulation desk

My Library Account

POLAR – MY LIBRARY ACCOUNT

ONU ID CARD = LIBRARY ID CARD

Use the entire 11 digit number to login

FIND A BOOK – OHIOLINK

Materials owned by 92 other libraries in Ohio:

colleges, universities, public libraries

Can submit request for an item to be delivered to

Heterick Memorial Library

Most requests arrive in 2-3 working days

No charge to request items (unless they become

overdue)

Maximum of 25 requests at a time

Items can usually be renewed

FIND A BOOK – OHIOLINK

From POLAR results list:

Button will recreate the POLAR search in OhioLINK

From an item record:

Button will go directly to the same item

Use if the copy in POLAR is checked out

Direct link to the OhioLINK catalog:

http://olc1.ohiolink.edu/search

FIND ARTICLES – DATABASES

What is the basic definition of a library database?

A library database is an electronic (online) catalog or index

Library databases contain information about published items

Library databases are searchable

The library subscribes to many databases so the ONU community has

access to these resources. When you’re searching a database, you

are not searching “the web.”

What types of items are indexed by library databases?

Articles in Journals/Magazines/Newspapers

Reference Information (i.e. entries from Encyclopedias, Dictionaries,

etc.)

Books & other documents

Source: http://web.calstatela.edu/library/whatisadatabase.htm

WEB RESEARCH VS. LIBRARY DATABASES

Internet

Material from numerous

sources, individuals,

government, etc.

Search engines must work

with material prepared

without regard for specific

software

Quality of material varies

Generally do not access for-

profit information

Content often anonymous

and undated

Databases

Usually created by a single publisher

Content pre-arranged for easy searching

Quality-controlled by editorial staff

Most are available only to subscribers

Sources are usually identified and dated

Databases often focus on a specific subject or discipline, but some cover several areas

FIND ARTICLES – DATABASES

FIND ARTICLES – DATABASES

General Databases

Academic Search

Complete

Business Source

Complete

JSTOR

Lexis-Nexis

MasterFILE Premier

MEDLINE with Full

Text

Databases by Subject

FIND ARTICLES – ENGINEERING DATABASES

DATABASES

ENGINEERING VILLAGE, COMPENDEX

Quick Reference Guide

DATABASES

ENGINEERING VILLAGE, COMPENDEX

Engineering Village is an index-only database

There is no full-text available

Abstracts are available

Everything has a button that connects to the ONU

Journal Finder

Not everything will actually have full text

When in doubt, email the citation to ill@onu.edu

FIND IT @ ONU

Find It @ ONU takes you from a database where

you don’t have full text access to a database where

you do have full text access

ARTICLES – FULL TEXT

JOURNAL FINDER

If you know the citation of the article you want or

know what journal you want to look at, you can go

right to it through the Journal Finder

JOURNAL FINDER

PATENTS AND TECHNICAL REPORTS

Special types of documents

Not necessarily indexed in a database

Harder to find

Electrical Engineering Guide

Derwent Innovations Index

Google Patent Search

Governmental webpages

SEARCH

WHAT IS INCLUDED?

POLAR

Article-level searching for all EBSCO databases

Article-level searching for a variety of other

databases: JSTOR, Hoover’s, AccessPharmacy,

etc.

Title-level searching for most other databases:

IEEE, CIAO, Proquest Nursing & Allied Health

OhioLINK Central Catalog

RESULTS: FULL TEXT, POLAR

RESULTS: OHIOLINK

RESULTS: FIND IT @ ONU

RESULTS: ILL

When in doubt, email: ill@onu.edu

FACETS: LIMIT YOUR RESULTS

MANAGE INFORMATION - REFWORKS

EXPORT TO REFWORKS

Most databases

will have

“export”

If there isn’t an

export, check for

“download”

CITING YOUR SOURCES –

PLAGIARISM: DON’T DO IT

CITING YOUR SOURCES

APA

The Publication Manual of the American Psychological

Association

Psychology, sociology, business, economics, nursing,

social work, criminology

MLA

Modern Language Association

English, comparative literature, literary criticism, foreign

languages

Chicago Manual

History, humanities

IEEE citation guide

SURVIVAL SKILLS

Get to know the librarians

Time management

Research is a process, not an event

Go beyond Google and Wikipedia

Use the resources the professors expect you to use

Know the difference between sources and how to evaluate them for relevancy and scholarship

Know how to cite and avoid plagiarism

Practices makes perfect

What you learn in one class can be used in other classes