Saturday, September 25, 2010

Serials Solutions - The Library Makes Exploring E-Journals Easy!

The Library Makes Exploring E-Journals Easy!

The library has thousands of full-text journals and newspapers that are available to the LBCC community from any web-enabled computer. Want to see what we have and link to them seamlessly? Just go to the library home page http://lib.lbcc.edu/ and click on “E-journal Title Search.”

This link will take you to a portal that provides:

  • An alphabetical list of the full-text digitized periodicals, newspapers, magazines and journals that the library can provide to LBCC students, staff and faculty through its many online databases
  • An alphabetical list of, and links to, all these online, full-text databases (such as ProQuest) available from the library that contain these journal and newspaper articles
  • A display of these e-journals grouped according to the subject area that they fall within (note: these are broad subjects --health, education, the arts, etc.—that are the focus of the particular journal; to get articles about a specific subject (like “mitral valve prolapse” or “carbon footprint”) choose one of the databases above and enter your subject

Typical questions that these links can answer:

  • I found a reference to an article I need in an April, 1997 issue of Business Week—can I get that issue online through the library?
  • I’d like to browse some psychology journals to get ideas for a paper. I need to do that at home, so what psych journals does the library have online?
  • I am researching an event that happened in Boston in 2001? Does LBCC Library have the Boston Globe online for that year? In what database?

For more tips, ask a librarian at the Library’s reference desk.

For more information contact: Nenita Buenaventura goodventure04@gmail.com

Library Update #77

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