Direct Links to Library Databases

In the event that you cannot access the A-Z Database list on the library homepage, the links below will take you directly to a database through ezproxy. The links with the ezp prefix can be shared with off-campus users as well, which will allow them to log in to ezproxy and then search the database.

Academic Search Premier: http://ezp.raritanval.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com.ezp.raritanval.edu/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=aph 

Once in Academic Search Premier, use the Choose Databases link to access:

• Business Source Elite
• Communication & Mass Media
• ERIC
• Green File
• SocIndex
• Medline
• Environment Complete

Art Full Text: http://ezp.raritanval.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=aft

ArtStor: http://ezp.raritanval.edu/login?url=http://library.artstor.org/library/#1

AVON - Academic Video Online from Alexander Street Press: http://ezp.raritanval.edu/login?url=http://search.alexanderstreet.com.ezp.raritanval.edu/avon

CINAHL: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=ccm

CQ Researcher: http://library.cqpress.com.ezp.raritanval.edu/cqresearcher/

Credo Reference: http://ezp.raritanval.edu/login?url=http://www.credoreference.com

Facts on File: http://ezp.raritanval.edu/login?url=http://online.infobaselearning.com/HistoryDatabaseSearch.aspx

Health & Wellness Resource Center: http://ezp.raritanval.edu/login?url=http://ezp.raritanval.edu/login?url=http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/raritanvcc?db=HWRC

JSTOR: http://ezp.raritanval.edu/login?url=http://www.jstor.org/action/showAdvancedSearch

LexisNexis Academic: http://ezp.raritanval.edu/login?url=http://www.lexis-nexis.com/universe

Literature Criticism Online (Short Story & Contemporary): http://ezp.raritanval.edu/login?url=http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/LitCrit;jsessionid=739A38607F1502E3716EF979C60154FD?locID=raritanvcc

Medcom Trainx: http://ezp.raritanval.edu/login?url=http://www.medcomrn.com/raritanval

New York Times (Current): http://ezp.raritanval.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/newsstand/publication/11561/?accountid=13438

New York Times (Historical): http://ezp.raritanval.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com.ezp.raritanval.edu/hnpnewyorktimes/advanced/news/fromDatabasesLayer?accountid=13438

Points of View Reference Center: http://ezp.raritanval.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=pov

Proquest Central: http://ezp.raritanval.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com.ezp.raritanval.edu/pqcentral/advanced?accountid=13438

Proquest Central includes several Proquest databases. Use the Change Databases link at the top right to select an individual database:

• ABI/Inform
• Criminal Justice Database
• Nursing & Allied Health

Safari Computer Science Ebooks: http://ezp.raritanval.edu/login?url=http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/?uicode=rvcc

ScienceDirect: http://ezp.raritanval.edu/login?url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/search

Springer Ebooks: http://ezp.raritanval.edu/login?url=http://www.springerlink.com

Direct links to Library Resources if homepage is down

Below are direct links to some of the library's resources if the library homepage or springshare sites in general go down:

RVOneSearch: http://ezp.raritanval.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=rv1

From within RVOneSearch, the links to Catalog and Journals at the top left of the screen will still work to access the library catalog and the Full Text Finder directly.

Catalog: http://catalog.somerset.lib.nj.us/search~S9

Full Text Finder (periodical search): http://ezp.raritanval.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=pfi&defaultdb=pfipub&plp=1&direct=true

A separate post will be available with direct links to individual databases.

Word order in Google searches

There is a great SHORT video on the importance of word order in Google searches. The demo searches and explanations are pretty fast, so students might have a hard time grasping it in the classroom, but it could be used for a quick Google lesson. He points out that Google looks for "bigrams," pairs of words in a particular order, and if there are multiple words in a search, results will emphasize the most common bigram. Check it out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcUuNORncN0. 

Google Search Education

This is very interesting! Google has a whole page dedicated to search education tools - i.e. lesson plans geared towards teaching people how to use Google. While it's necessarily a bit Google-promoting, some of it could be pretty useful. It's primarily geared towards k-12, but some of the lessons could certainly be used with our lower level students who haven't had as much exposure to web-searching. The video "How Google Works" is also pretty good, except for the second half which is a bit propoganda-ish. But the beginning information about how Google indexes the web is a nice explanation.





 

The New Invisible Web

In this article in School Library Journal, Joyce Valenza recommends a number of search engines to get to what she calls, the "new" invisible web: blogs, wikis, and other web2.0 areas that might get lost in the Google shuffle. Some suggestions:

Wiki.com
Google Wiki Search
SearchTwitter
IPL Blogs

The new search engine Zuula that Nan discussed earlier also searches many of these less common areas of the internet.

InformationLiteracy.org

There is a website www.informationliteracy.org that has compiled IL lesson plans for all age groups. There a few well designed lessons for first year college students that offer interesting ideas for making lessons more student-centered. One in particular uses playing cards to demonstrate how using AND or OR will change your search results - it sounds kind of fun!

There is also a tool called BuILder - to create web-based lessons which in my undergrad days were called "webquests". I created a short lesson to teach the Periodical Locator just to see how it works. Click here if you want to check it out. The program is a bit clunky to use and it took me about 3 hours to develop this one lesson, but I like the idea behind it. It's the kind of thing you could use to break up a long lesson of lecture by giving the students something to learn on their own. There is probably opportunity to create similar lessons using NetOp features - I just haven't figured them all out yet! I'll keep you posted.

The site also has a section of Teaching Ideas, which are not fully developed lessons but brief ideas for instruction.

-Megan