Logging In
You will need to login with your MCC
student username and password for access to the library's
article, ebook and research databases.
Access from Home information page
Video Tutorials
These video tutorials are hosted on YouTube
and will open in a new window.
Introduction
to the Library's Web Site (Part 1)
Oxford
English Dictionary Online (Part 2)
Finding
Scholarly Articles: MLA International Bibliography (Part 3)
Finding
Scholarly Articles: Humanities Full Text and Literature Resource Center
(Part 4)
Literary
Biographies (Part 5)
E-Books
from Cambridge (Part 6)
Ebrary
and NetLibrary (Part 7)
Handout
(PDF)
Literary Databases for Articles
Please use
Mozilla Firefox when searching all of the library's
article and ebook databases.
Go to Find
Articles, Research & More
Recommended Databases - MLA International Bibliography (Ebsco), Humanities Full Text (WilsonWeb), Literature
Resource Center (Gale) and Essay and General Literature Index (chapters and essays, WilsonWeb)
Electronic and Hard Copy Books
Electronic Books: Go to Articles, Research & More and click on Choose
a Database by Publication Type and then Electronic
Books. Choose Cambridge Collections Online,
eBrary or NetLibrary.
For an online dictionary, choose Oxford English Dictionary
Online from the Database by Publication Type
list.
Hard Copy and some Electronic Books: Use Find
Books (Online Catalog).
Please use
Mozilla Firefox when searching all of the library's
article and ebook databases.
Citing Sources
To cite books and articles that you retreive from the library's online databases, you need to have not only
the information about the article and book but the information about which online database you used to find the article or book. This includes the database name, the provide or vendor
of the database and the basic web address for the database.
Library
Database Information for Your Works Cited
MLA
Style web sites
Document Delivery
We offer Document Delivery services
to online and distance students that are not able to come to the library
on campus. Items that are available online through our ebooks and article databases will not be mailed or emailed.
Articles:
Emailing of articles (PDF) from library owned hard copy periodicals
First, be sure that the journal or magazine in which the article was published is available
in our print periodicals
and that the full text article is not available electronically in
one
of our databases.
Books: Mailing
of library owned hard copy circulating books (no reference or reserves)
First, be sure that the book is in our print collection and that the full text article is not available
electronically in one of our eBook databases.
Getting Help
Please contact the library for research assistance
at 299-8323 or send an email from our Ask
a Librarian form.
Borrowing from Other Libraries
Students able to come on-campus to the library can make online requests using
our Interlibrary
Loan Service. This service allows a MCC student to borrow known
items from other libraries and pick them up at the MCC library upon
their arrival.
Students able to come on-campus to the library can fill out a
TexShare
card application to gain borrowing priveleges from other
Texas libraries taking part in the
TexShare
card program.
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