��THE LIBRARY SCOOP Spring 2015 Volume 7, Issue 1 Orange County Community College Middletown & Newburgh campuses Newsletter of the Libraries of Orange County Community College Volume 7, Issue 1 Library Hours Middletown Monday - Friday 8 am 9 pm Saturday 9 am 3 pm Circulation: 845-341-4855 Reference: 845-341-4260 Library Hours Newburgh Monday 8 am 8 pm Tuesday 8 am 8 pm Wednesday 8 am 8 pm Thursday 8 am 8 pm Friday 8 am 5pm Circulation: 845-341-9020 Reference: 845-341-9049 TEXT 845-262-2542 The library staff is committed to providing helpful and friendly service. If you can t find a book, are having trouble formatting your paper, are wondering what books you checked out please direct your questions to anyone at the front desk of either library. Need a scanner? Both OCCC libraries now feature scanners to make electronic copies of books, articles or images. In Newburgh the scanner is on the reference desk. In Middletown the scanners are to the left as you enter the information commons. Ask the library staff to explain the features. Borrow a Netbook or Laptop Both Middletown and Newburgh libraries have portable computers available for SUNY Orange students, faculty and staff to borrow. The computers are to be used in the library and have wireless Internet connection. They are available at the desk with your valid SUNY Orange ID. Check out one today. What you can get from the Library s ONE Search SUNY Orange Library s ONE Search tool to simplify research. ONE Search is the library s new search engine that finds sources from across the library s materials. In ONE Search you can find out if the library has articles or books about your topic. Type the keywords and you ll get a list of results that you can access on or off campus. Click into the other tabs to find what regular and electronic books are on the library s shelves. Articles In the results there will be research articles from journals that describe experiments and studies from scholars. Magazine articles are by authors who have read research or interviewed the authors to explain the research to a bigger audience. Trade publications are also very useful for coverage of business and industry. Great for getting detailed information to use in reports. Books both electronic and physical The library has a collection of electronic that you can access from anywhere on or off campus. You can search through the book electronically an print or email a limited amount of pages. There will also books for those who want to hold them in your hands. Check to make sure you are in the same campus library that the book is in. Great for getting a broad picture of a topic. The results will contain a mix of articles, books, scholarly articles, and more. Filters will help you remove content you consider to be too old or too new. You are also able to select the source of the material you find. Anything that has  Full Text means you click and read. You may have to link to a different database to access what you find. Regular books can be in either Newburgh or Middletown. Ask a librarian to show you how to search and find useful information in the list of results. Using Google Scholar By Andy Heiz Google Scholar is a wonderful resource that allows you to search for academic articles from a wide variety of sources. The search engine is able to find articles from publishers the world over and display information about the article, and often, the article itself. In order to get what you want from Google Scholar there are some important things you should be aware of. Screen shot of a results page from Google Scholar. Article links on the right. Look at the links on the right of the title for links to the article. If there is no link in that column then there is no direct access to the article. Where you see a link in the right column you have a chance of getting the article. Sometimes the article will be available for free and sometimes the publisher will ask you for a payment to read the article. Use the filters on the left . Google Scholar offers few filters that may be helpful in getting useful articles. Most useful is the date range filter. Set a custom one or select articles from this year or one or three years ago. Turn off patents since you likely only want to find articles. What to do when you end up at a page that requests payment to read the article. If you end up at a page asking for payment to read a document copy and paste the title of the article into the library s ONE Search. If you still can t find it ask a librarian to show you our interlibrary loan system for getting articles. Always save your documents early and often! Even if you only want to print them. Text your questions to a librarian 845-462-2541 How to get the OCCC link on your home computer. The Full-Text from OCCC link appears on computers when you are on the campus. It means you can link to the library s databases and get the article. Click on the Settings at the Google Scholar home page. Click the Library Links link from the column of options on the left. Search for  Orange County Community College . Choose  Full-Text from OCCC from the list of options. Click the Save button at the bottom right. When you click the Full-Text from OCCC link off campus you will be prompted to log in to the library s databases. Use your MySUNYOrange login and password and you will be directed to the database with the article. Searching for articles with the library s new search engine.