Welcome to Joyner Library Online! We're here to help you get the most out of the library's resources as you move through LIBS 6042 online. If you need help at any time do not hesitate to Ask a Librarian.
Getting Started
Will I find everything I need online?
Most of the tools and materials you will need for this course are available online. Some titles, however, are only available in print. They may be located in Joyner Library's Reference Department or Joyner Stacks as well as in many local public, community college, school, college, or university libraries. Reference materials materials do not circulate, and cannot be borrowed on Interlibrary Loan, but materials in Joyner Stacks may be borrowed (see below, under "Finding Books").
I need to use NC LIVE! What is it, and how do I get there?
NC LIVE provides North Carolina residents and students with access to high quality information - searchable collections of magazine, newspaper, and journal articles, electronic books, historical materials, maps, and much more - covering a wide range of topics. NC LIVE is a consortium, with members from university, public, some private, and community college libraries.
HOWEVER, as students taking classes at ECU, you have access not only to NC LIVE databases, but also to the electronic materials Joyner subscribes to on its own. We do not have NC LIVE passwords to distribute, and you don't need one if you're taking an ECU class.
ACCESS ALL ELECTRONIC MATERIALS, INCLUDING NC LIVE, THROUGH THE LIBRARY'S HOME PAGE AT http://www.ecu.edu/cs-lib/
Once on the library's homepage select the DATABASES button on the top toolbar, or go directly to that Electronic Database List page at:
But I'm being asked for a password! What should I do?
Article databases are licensed to (currently registered) ECU students, faculty and staff. If you are on campus when you access them you'll go right through, but if you are off campus when you attempt to access them you will be asked for your Pirate ID and password. This is the same user ID and password you use for "OneStop" or Blackboard."
Just to recap, it is not necessary to access databases through NCLIVE.ORG, and by doing so, you actually limit the resources available to you as ECU students. Once you are no longer taking classes through ECU you can access NC LIVE materials by asking your local public library for a password.
If you are able to come into Joyner Library, use the call number charts on the wall by the stairs to determine on which floor books with those call numbers will be found. Students living in Pitt County, even if taking courses online, will have to visit the library personally to check out books. If you are a distance learning student living outside of Pitt County, you can ask that books be mailed to you. See:
Just keep in mind that books located in Reference areas cannot circulate or be mailed out.
Are there books available full-text electronically?
The library has an increasing number of book titles available electronically. NetLibrary, for example, is a collection of books from various publishers that are available in electronic format. As an ECU student, you have access to a collection of more than 30,000 reference, scholarly and professional books. These are available by searching the library's catalog. For more information see: "How Do I....Use Netlibrary?"
Reference titles are also slowly becoming available to us in electronic format. If you don't find them in our catalog be sure to also check the Gale Virtual Reference Library, available from the library's Electronic Resources page.
Finding Articles:
Good Starting Places
All of the Joyner Library databases can be reached from the Electronic Resources page. (If asked for a User ID and password, use you Pirate ID and password.) To search for an article on a particular subject in library science, consider using the following databases.
Full Text (1984 to present) indexes articles and book reviews in more than 300 library and information science periodicals; full-text coverage for 148 periodicals. Books, chapters in collected works such as conference proceedings, library school theses, and pamphlets are also indexed. Full-text coverage begins in 1994.
Library Literature & Information Science Retrospective (1905-1983) indexes articles and book reviews of key library and information science periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere. Books, chapters in collected works such as conference proceedings, library school theses, and pamphlets are also indexed.
LISA is an international abstracting and indexing tool designed for library professionals and other information specialists. LISA currently abstracts over 440 periodicals from more than 68 countries and in more than 20 different languages. Subject areas include computer science applications, information management, library science and librarianship, and publishing and bookselling. Years of Coverage: selectively from 1969 - present.
The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Digital Library Core Package consists of subscriptions to all ACM journals, magazines, and conference proceedings, both in print and online, including an online archive from 1985 to the present. While full-text is available for most articles, full-text is not yet available for every proceeding article published before 1991. Years of Coverage: 1985 - Current
How can I see articles?
Many of our databases include the full text of articles. In some cases, though, the full text of an article may not be available online in the database you are using due to publishers' restrictions or the prohibitive cost of providing them online. Increasingly, when you search for articles in the library's databases you will see the button on your results list or on the screen showing the citation/abstract of the article.
Serials Solutions is a service offered by Joyner and Laupus Libraries that allows you, at the click of a button, to go from an article citation in one database to a full text copy of that article in another, or to see if a particular article or specific journal is available in full text electronic format. It also allows you to find out if that journal is available in print at either Joyner or Laupus.
What if the article I want is not available full-text online?
If the article is not available online, you can check the Joyner Library catalog or the Laupus Health Sciences catalog to see if it is held in printed form. The button does this for you automatically from within databases. If you live within Pitt County you would need to come to the library to make a copy of the article. If you are a distance learning studentliving outside of Pitt County, you can have articles copied and sent to you, using Interlibrary Lending. See: http://www.lib.ecu.edu/Distance/de_ill.htm
The ALA Library and Information Technology Association is a leading organization reaching out across types of libraries to provide education and services for a broad membership. The membership includes new professionals, systems librarians, library administrators, library schools, vendors and anyone else interested in leading edge technology and applications for librarians and information providers.
Since 1937, the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) has been a major society for information professionals leading the search for new and better theories, techniques, and technologies to improve access to information.
