This tip sheet is available online at library home page > Distance Education Services > Research Tip Sheets.
Online Library Resources
In-depth assistance is available at How To Do Library Research on the Distance Ed Library Services page (see the Handouts and Demonstrations).- go to the Library
Catalog to search for books/videos/DVDs, etc.
- enter your term(s), and select the index you want to search (author, title, subject, keyword)
- your search may bring up journal titles with online links; click the "ENMU Portales online access" link to go to our Full-text Online Journals (see Full-text Online Journals, below, for instructions)
- to find journal articles, use a periodical database
- go to the library’s Periodical Databases page and select one of the databases listed below (click the letter that begins the database name at the first alphabetical list in the upper right)
- if you are off campus, type your ENMU ID# at the remote authentication screen
- What is a peer-reviewed journal?
- LC's Finding Primary Sources
Databases for History and Political Science Research
- JSTOR--scholarly, full text except current issues
- History Reference Center--scholarly, full text
- Academic Search Premier--scholarly, full text
- CQ Researcher--scholarly, social issues/historical overviews of events, full text
- Academic OneFile--scholarly, full text
- eHRAF--world cultures
- ARTstor--art images
- Wilson OmniFile--scholarly, full text
- Westlaw Campus--full text, law
- Directory of Open Access Journals
Full-text Online Journals
If you are unable to locate full-text material in the database you are searching, try using our Full-Text Online Journals, at the second alphabetical list in the upper right of the Periodical Databases page:- click the 0-9 link and type journal title in the Search box; if journal is available, click a link and then "Search Within this Publication" (type article title in search box or perform an open search)
- or, click a year/volume/issue link that corresponds to your citation and search the issue's table of contents for your article title
- or, go directly to our Full-text Online Journals to see the specific journal titles we have available:
History
Political Science
History and Political Science Web Resources
19th Century United States Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies OutlineAMDOCS(American History, 15th Century-Present)
In the first person: (index to letters, diaries, oral histories, personal narratives)
American Civil War Homepage
Biography of America
Cornell University's Making of America(primary source material)
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Vietnam War Declassification Project
History News Service
Historical Text Archive
American Social History Project
University of Virginia's American Studies Hypertexts
University of Virginia's Historical Map Collections Online
American Women's History
International Inter-governmental Organizations
General Society Survey
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
American National Election Studies
State Data Centers Program
Country Reports
PollingReport.com
Project Vote Smart
Social Criticism Review
Repositories of Primary Sources
Gutenberg-e (historical texts, oral histories)
See the Internet Resources page for general and reference works, and eBooks.
Requesting Material
Register with the ILLiad Interlibrary Loan (ILL) system and create your personal ILLiad account. Go to the Interlibrary Loan link and click the ILLiad Log In/Register link on the left-hand sidebar. Click the "First Time Users click here" link and register with the system. Enter your ENMU email address, create an ILLiad username of your own choosing, and enter your ENMU ID number as your ILLiad password. Return to the same ILLiad Log In/Register link and logon to ILLiad to use the system.- if you are taking classes on the main campus, check Golden Library's holdings first, before submitting a request. If your item is unavailable online or in the library, you may place an ILL request.
- if you are a distance education student and do not come to the main campus for any of your classes, you may request anything not available full-text online via ILL, including items from Golden Library's catalog.
On-campus students may pick up requested items at the library's Circulation Desk. Items requested from distance education students will be sent directly to them. 95% of articles will be available electronically via your ENMU email account; some may arrive in your ILLiad account--login to your account and click the Electronically Delivered Articles link in the left-hand sidebar. For items we must request from other libraries, the turnaround time may be as long as two weeks for books; most articles arrive within 2-3 days. Golden Library has no control over lending terms and renewal policies set by other libraries.