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Search tips & course-use requests for faculty
How to check for full text or print access to a specific journal through Benner Library
Connect to the Open Textbook Library; a collection of extensively reviewed OER resources
How to build stable links to share with your students and on Canvas
Loan periods & contact information for putting Benner Library or professor-owned materials on Course Reserve
Making electronic resources available for your students
FAQ, Permission request form, contact person for copyright questions
Request a locker for one-semester at a time. Free service.
Faculty requests help keep our print and electronic collections relevant to course assignments
Faculty requests help keep our print and electronic collections relevant to course assignments
Learn about the scope of Digital Commons @ Olivet and how to contribute your scholarship
This tutorial covers advanced search tools that can be used in most library databases.
Help building individual links that can be added to courses for correct authentication.
This tutorial is intended for researchers who have already found an article that interests them. It walks through ways to find full text versions of the article(s). Subtítulos disponibles en Español.
Find help pages for different citation styles.
This tutorial reviews the basics of finding articles (5:17).
This tutorial offers several helpful tips for finding related search terms and expanding on search terms for a research project (3:01). Subtítulos disponible en español
How to find research literature, used by scholars for forming an investigative paper or to provide background for personal research (3:20).
Use Google Scholar to setup an account to connect with Benner's fulltext and searching tips (2:55 minutes). If you are not seeing use our help page: Google Scholar Configuration Instructions to re-configure your settings.
In order to link Olivet Nazarene University resources from a Google scholar search, follow the steps below. This setup should only have to be done one time per device. After setup, use the Google Scholar link from the library website.
Once you find an article in a library database (EBSCO or ProQuest) how do you know for certain that it's peer reviewed? Quick visual guide to article details.
What's the difference between a keywords and a subject heading? How to find and use database-specific subject headings for precise searching.
Help make purls for library resources so that they can be shared to other ONU constituents. There are three different methods in building purls. Find the one that applies and skip to that portion of the video:
Method #1 Use this method if your link is from EBSCO, Proquest, or Gale. Go to 1:20 minutes.
Method#2 Use this method with a regular url that does not have any proxy codes in it. Go to 2:03 minutes
Method#3 Use this method if the article link contains any Open Athens or proxy code in the url. Go to 2:53 minutes.
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This web page was created on 5/17/2021. The content of the page was updated by Jasmine Cieszynski, Instructional Services.