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Research Using Library Resources: Internet

How to do college-level research with library resources.

Connect to subscription library resources through Google Scholar

Set up Google Scholar

Access library resources while searching on Google Scholar.

Go to scholar.google.com  and click on the 3-bar menu:

Open "Settings":

Click on "library links":

Look up Moorpark College.  Make sure the box is checked, and click "Save":

 

When you search on Google Scholar, you'll see a "Get it MC Library" link if we have the resource in our collection:

Google

Limit your Google searches to .gov (state and federal government sites) or .edu (schools, colleges and universities) or .org (nonprofits) domains by going to "Settings," selecting  "Advanced Search" and entering your domain choices:

 

Websites with Free Journals!

Multidisciplinary Topics:

Science and Medicine:

Other subjects:

  • Math journals: UC Berkeley's list of free online math journals.
  • Law: The American Bar Association's free full-text online law review and legal journals.

Entire books online

  • Google Books
    Google has partnered with over 20,000 publishers and authors, and several major research libraries, to makes their books discoverable through Google Books. While only limited text can be viewed from books still under copyright, the full text of many public domain books, especially those published before 1923, is available. Use the Advanced Search page to limit your search to full-text or public domain books.
  • HathiTrust Digital Library
    Through a partnership with more than two dozen research libraries, HathiTrust currently makes available more than 4.9 million digitized volumes, approximately 15 percent of which are in the public domain. The HathiTrust Digital Library complements content available through Google Books: while some content between the two services overlaps, HathiTrust provides some content Google does not, including digital collections unique to participating institutions, works from institutional repositories, and native born-digital materials.
  • Internet Archive: Ebook and Texts Archive
    The Internet Archive includes the full text of more than 2.5 million online books and texts, including works of fiction, popular books, children's books, historical texts, and academic books. Books can be dowloaded and read in a variety of formats, including text (.txt), PDF, ePub, Mobi (for Amazon.com's Kindle), DAISY, and DJVU.
  • The Online Books Page: Archives and Indexes
    A large compilation of full-text literature resources on the Web. Includes sections on general-purpose collections with substantial English-language listings (large-scale repositories; significant indexes and search aids; and significant smaller-scale archives), foreign language and literature resources, and specialty archives.

 

Information from the Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/faq.html#aalfaq5