This document provides an overview of library resources and services available at Ohio Northern University. It introduces the library staff and their contact information. It describes personal research consultations that are available by appointment. It also gives an overview of the libraries on campus, catalogs to access materials, databases for articles, interlibrary loans, citations managers, and plagiarism policies. Key resources covered include the POLAR catalog, OhioLink, journal databases, and RefWorks.

1. ECCS ORIENTATION
Kelly Kobiela, Systems Librarian
Heterick Memorial Library

2. WELCOME TO THE LIBRARY
 Kelly Kobiela, k-kobiela@onu.edu
 Jenny Donley, j-donley.1@onu.edu
 Traci Moritz, t-moritz@onu.edu
 Kathleen Baril, k-baril@onu.edu
 Reference Email, reference@onu.edu
 Librarians on duty:
Monday – Thursday
 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Friday
 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM

3. 121 PERSONAL RESEARCH CONSULTATIONS
Need a little extra help with your
research?
Finding plenty of resources, but not
exactly what you are looking for?
Has it been suggested by instructor to
meet with a librarian?
 An in-depth research consultation with
the librarian of your choice is available
by appointment.
 Sessions may run for 30-60 minutes
and are designed to assist students
with finding and evaluating resources
 Schedule an appointment by emailing
reference@onu.edu or any librarian
 More information

4. UH…I’M NOT GOING TO REMEMBER ALL OF
THIS…

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THIS…

6. LIBRARIES AT ONU
 Heterick Memorial Library
Undergraduate library and
accessible to all students
 Taggart Law Library
Library for law school and
accessible to all students

7. WHAT THE LIBRARY OFFERS:
 ~400,000 items in POLAR, the ONU library catalog
 ~20,000,000 items in OhioLink
 260 Databases
 400+ print periodicals
 Tens of thousands of electronic journal titles
 Juvenile, Young Adult, and Graphic Novel
collections
 DVDs, CDs, streaming audiovisuals, and streaming
music

8. CATALOGS – BOOKS AND MEDIA
 POLAR Catalog – Search for physical and electronic items
(ebooks and ejournals) that are available from Heterick
Memorial Library and Taggart Law Library

9. FIND A BOOK – POLAR: KEYWORD SEARCH
 Looks in several locations
Subject
Article title
Abstracts
Table of contents
 Does not require an exact match
 Generates comparatively large number of hits
 Good if you are not familiar with terminology
 Good for a beginning search

10. FIND A BOOK – POLAR: SUBJECT SEARCH
 Looks at the subject headings in the records
 Requires an exact match
 Provides a results list with related headings to use
for broader and narrower searches
 Generates comparatively smaller number of hits
 Good if you are familiar with terminology
 Good for a next step after a keyword search

11. CATALOG – KEYWORD TO SUBJECT

12. CATALOG – KEYWORD TO SUBJECT

13. POLAR – RESULTS
ebook
Heterick Library
Law Library

14. CHECKING OUT ITEMS
 Checkout and due dates
Book check out is for 21 days
DVD check out is for 7 days
 Renewals
Up to 6 renewals, provided no one else has put a hold
on the item
 Fines
$.10 - $2.00, depending on how overdue and what type
of item
Can be paid at the circulation desk
 My Library Account

15. POLAR – MY LIBRARY ACCOUNT

16. ONU ID CARD = LIBRARY ID CARD
 Use the entire 11 digit number to login

17. FIND A BOOK – OHIOLINK
 Materials owned by 92 other libraries in Ohio:
colleges, universities, public libraries
 Can submit request for an item to be delivered to
Heterick Memorial Library
 Most requests arrive in 2-3 working days
 No charge to request items (unless they become
overdue)
 Maximum of 25 requests at a time
 Items can usually be renewed

18. FIND A BOOK – OHIOLINK
 From POLAR results list:
Button will recreate the POLAR search in OhioLINK
 From an item record:
Button will go directly to the same item
Use if the copy in POLAR is checked out
 Direct link to the OhioLINK catalog:
http://olc1.ohiolink.edu/search

19. FIND ARTICLES – DATABASES
 What is the basic definition of a library database?
A library database is an electronic (online) catalog or index
Library databases contain information about published items
Library databases are searchable
The library subscribes to many databases so the ONU community has
access to these resources. When you’re searching a database, you
are not searching “the web.”
 What types of items are indexed by library databases?
Articles in Journals/Magazines/Newspapers
Reference Information (i.e. entries from Encyclopedias, Dictionaries,
etc.)
Books & other documents
Source: http://web.calstatela.edu/library/whatisadatabase.htm

20. WEB RESEARCH VS. LIBRARY DATABASES
Internet
 Material from numerous
sources, individuals,
government, etc.
 Search engines must work
with material prepared
without regard for specific
software
 Quality of material varies
 Generally do not access for-profit
information
 Content often anonymous
and undated
Databases
 Usually created by a single
publisher
 Content pre-arranged for
easy searching
 Quality-controlled by editorial
staff
 Most are available only to
subscribers
 Sources are usually identified
and dated
 Databases often focus on a
specific subject or discipline,
but some cover several areas

21. FIND ARTICLES – DATABASES

22. FIND ARTICLES – DATABASES
 General Databases
Academic Search
Complete
Business Source
Complete
JSTOR
Lexis-Nexis
MasterFILE Premier
MEDLINE with Full
Text
 Databases by Subject

23. FIND ARTICLES – ENGINEERING DATABASES

24. DATABASES
ENGINEERING VILLAGE, COMPENDEX
 Quick Reference Guide

25. DATABASES
ENGINEERING VILLAGE, COMPENDEX
 Engineering Village is an index-only database
There is no full-text available
 Abstracts are available
 Everything has a button that connects to the ONU
Journal Finder
 Not everything will actually have full text
 When in doubt, email the citation to ill@onu.edu

26. FIND IT @ ONU
 Find It @ ONU takes you from a database where
you don’t have full text access to a database where
you do have full text access

27. ARTICLES – FULL TEXT

28. JOURNAL FINDER
 If you know the citation of the article you want or
know what journal you want to look at, you can go
right to it through the Journal Finder

29. JOURNAL FINDER

30. PATENTS AND TECHNICAL REPORTS
 Special types of documents
Not necessarily indexed in a database
Harder to find
 Civil Engineering Guide
Derwent Innovations Index
Google Patent Search
Governmental webpages

31. SEARCH

32. WHAT IS INCLUDED?
 POLAR
 Article-level searching for all EBSCO databases
 Article-level searching for a variety of other
databases: JSTOR, Hoover’s, AccessPharmacy,
etc.
 Title-level searching for most other databases:
IEEE, CIAO, Proquest Nursing & Allied Health
 OhioLINK Central Catalog

33. RESULTS: FULL TEXT, POLAR

34. RESULTS: OHIOLINK

35. RESULTS: FIND IT @ ONU

36. RESULTS: ILL
 When in doubt, email: ill@onu.edu

37. FACETS: LIMIT YOUR RESULTS

38. MANAGE INFORMATION - REFWORKS

39. EXPORT TO REFWORKS
 Most databases
will have
“export”
 If there isn’t an
export, check for
“download”

40. CITING YOUR SOURCES –
PLAGIARISM: DON’T DO IT

41. CITING YOUR SOURCES
 APA
The Publication Manual of the American Psychological
Association
Psychology, sociology, business, economics, nursing,
social work, criminology
 MLA
Modern Language Association
English, comparative literature, literary criticism, foreign
languages
 Chicago Manual
History, humanities

42. SURVIVAL SKILLS
 Get to know the librarians
 Time management
 Research is a process, not an event
 Go beyond Google and Wikipedia
 Use the resources the professors expect you to use
 Know the difference between sources and how to
evaluate them for relevancy and scholarship
 Know how to cite and avoid plagiarism
 Practices makes perfect
 What you learn in one class can be used in other
classes