35,000 E-Journals

The RCC library gives you access to about 35,000 e-journals, that is, online academic journals, magazines and newspapers from around the country and many around the world.  Most of these are accessible through the various library databases, some come as free or purchased online subscriptions.  These online journals contain over 50 millions articles, a treasure trove of quality information for student research.  If this were the pre-digital old days when periodicals were housed only on the physical shelves of physical libraries, all of these periodicals would fill every single shelf in the RCC library FIVE TIMES OVER!!

 

Of the 46,000 database searches done against the RCC databases last year, most were keyword searches.  But what if you wanted to browse your favorite journal?  That might be a problem because you would have to know first which database it was in.  THAT PROBLEM HAS NOW BEEN SOLVED.  All 35,000 e-journals are now in one place in alphabetical order. 

 

How to access:

• Go to the library website www.rcc.mass.edu/lib.
• Click on “List of E-Journals” (in the Electronic Resources column).
• To search by journal title, select Title tab and type title in Find field
• Select database.  (Some journals are in more than one database.)
• Select issue and articles.

 

For example, you are looking for an article in Newsweek from 1998:

• Go to the library website www.rcc.mass.edu/lib.
• Click on “List of E-Journals.”  
• Select Title tab and type Newsweek in Find field
• Select MasterFILE Premier database, since only it contains articles for 1998 for Newsweek.
• Select issue and articles.

 

If there is a title missing from List of E-Journals that we absolutely must have to support the curriculum, contact the library to explore adding it.

3 Announcements

• H1N1.  During the flu season, go to the library website at www.rcc.mass.edu/lib for a Flu Information link to the latest information on H1Ni.  This is supplied by the library’s major database vendor, Ebsco.
• The Hispanic Heritage Art Display is coming down this week.  Six paintings by Ecuadorian artist Mayor Campos have been at the library entrance and Group Study Room since September arranged by Veronica McCormack.  Take a look before they are gone.  For photos supplied by the artist, click on http://www.rcc.mass.edu/Lib/Digital%20diplays/HHM/hhp/index.htm.
• Library Instruction.  For professors assigning research papers, make sure you sign up your class for library instruction with Totsaporn (Ted) Intarabumrung or Gena Pliakas for morning classes or Bill Hoag for evening or Saturday.

Welcome to the New RCC Library Blog!

The library has so many information sources, the challenge is explaining them in ways that busy people can absorb.  This blog will be delivered by email every week or so.  It will present small nuggets of information on library resources and services.  Read them when received or go back to review later.  The blog is always available on the library web page:  www.rcc.mass.edu/lib.

New Database: Ethnic NewsWatch

Ethnic NewsWatch features newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic and minority press.  It contains 2 million articles from 300 publications.  There are many perspectives:  African-American, Hispanic, African, Caribbean, Arab and Middle Eastern, Asian American, Eastern European, Jewish, Native American, and multiethnic.  Most titles go back to 1990 and some to 1977 or before.   Twenty-five percent are in Spanish.   

For example, choose the “African American/Caribbean/African” ethnic group and search for Obama.  This returns 17,000 articles from major black and Caribbean papers around the country.  Boston’s major African American paper is indexed under two names:  the Bay State Banner and the Boston Banner.  Get to both by searching for Banner in the Publications link.  This is a good way to find the 500 times that RCC has been mentioned in 30 years of this paper.

To access:

• Go to library web page www.rcc.mass.edu/lib
• Click on Databases
• Click on Alphabetical list and then Ethnic NewsWatch.
• From home computer, key in your RCC library barcode #.  (Get a barcode at the circulation desk.  It takes two minutes.)