Distance Education library resources   Tags: distance education, online courses, special topic guides, subject guides  

The library provides access to hundreds of ebooks.  Most can be searched for and accessed via the catalog using the “E-books” limit.  You can also directly search the following e-book collections.

Weekly in-depth single topic reports covering current issues and controversial subjects.  Each report includes an background and current status, pro-con essays, future outlook, and a bibliography.

The following databases all cover a wide variety of topics.  Academic search and Omnifile include more academic, scholarly content.  Masterfile and Readers' Guide are better for current events and general interest topics.  For general interest and news articles before 1980 use Readers' Guide Retrospective.

If you need to research your topic indepth, try the list of "More article databases" to see many specialized sources for article information

The first databases listed are especially helpful for locating articles from newspapers and other current events topics.  ABI Inform and Business Source Premiere are specialized business databases that include business news and company information.

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Interlibrary Loan is a service to borrow resources for you from other libraries.  As a distance education student, if you do not visit campus, we can make arrangements to get the books to you, rather than requiring that you pick them up.  In addition, if we own a title or an article in print form, you can use the Interlibrary loan form to request that we send it to you.  Be sure to explain that you are taking an online course in the notes field of the form.