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Welcome, distance learners! Please read through the list in the next box below and click on any item that looks like it might answer your question.
If you have further questions about CSUDH Library resources or services for distance and extended education students, please contact the Distance Learning Librarian!
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Students enrolled in CSUDH Distance Learning courses are entitled to use CSUDH University Library resources and services.
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Find Journal, Magazine and Newspaper Citations and Articles by using Remote Access to Library electronic databases:
- Visit the Library's Find Journal Articles & Electronic Resources page for online access to thousands of electronic journals and databases where you can search for citations and articles by topic, keyword or author.
All electronic databases to which the Library subscribes are listed in
alphabetical and subject lists.
The alphabetical list indicates whether each database includes the full text of some or all of the
articles
it indexes. You may read, print out, e-mail or save the full text of many complete articles
while you are searching databases that contain full text articles online.
The subject list lists the same databases as the alphabetical list, but it divides them up into subject areas
so you can see a list of databases appropriate to the subject area in which you are doing research.
- Most of our electronic databases are available off campus through remote access to current
CSUDH students, staff and faculty.
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Search for Books and Electronic Books:
- The
Torofind Online Catalog of Books and other Materials lists the CSUDH Library's book holdings.
- Note: we regret that the CSUDH Library is not currently able to mail our books
and/or
thesis volumes directly to your home.
Please arrange to borrow books from the CSUDH Library by using the
interlibrary loan
services of a public library in your own community.
Over 35,000 electronic books are now available through Ebrary, netLibrary and Safari.
You may find e-books through Torofind or you may search directly in the publishers' databases:
Ebrary ,
netLibrary and Safari.
- Public libraries are usually convenient to use, and if your neighborhood library does not have
the books or journals you need, you will probably be able to obtain them through that library's
interlibrary loan service at little or no cost.
You can also ask your public library interlibrary loan service to obtain for you books that you
have already located in the CSUDH University Library Catalog.
Many public libraries also provide their members with in-house and remote access to subscription databases. Remember, however, that the books, magazines and databases owned by all
but the largest public libraries are usually not in themselves adequate or appropriate for academic research and study.
As the availability of public library services varies with location, contact your local library to determine
what services may be available to you.
- Academic libraries primarily serve their own students, staff and faculty, but many, particularly
public colleges and universities, will extend privileges to students of other universities who present
proof of their enrolment in a post-secondary program. You may, with payment of a small fee, be able
to arrange to use their electronic resources onsite and borrow their books while you are enrolled in
CSUDH courses.
- Please note: CSUDH students who live near any of the other 23 California State University Libraries
may borrow materials at no cost from these libraries.
You will be asked to show your CSUDH Identification card.
- If you are unable to come to the campus in person, contact the Distance Learning Librarian to
obtain a CSUDH identification card that confirms your enrolment in CSUDH distance learning courses.
- Locate the home page of a library near you!
Locate Libraries in California
Locate Libraries around the World
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Find Theses written by CSUDH students and students at other universities:
- CSUDH Theses in bound volumes:
--CSUDH theses are all listed in the CSUDH online catalog.
--Click "Find Books" on the Library home page and search for
the Library of Congress Subject: CSUDH-Dissertations
--To sort entries in reverse chronological order (newest ones first):
-- click the "Limit/Sort Searchâ button at the bottom of any of the
pages of results
-- click in the box beside "Sort results by Year"
-- click the gray "Limit/sort items retrieved..." bar
If you want to borrow an actual hard copy thesis or two, please ask your nearest library to interlibrary loan them from us for you (we aren't presently able to mail books to our distance students).
-- go to the Library home page
-- under "Library Materials", click "Journal Articles and Electronic Resources"
--click "Alphabetical List of Journal Article Indexes and Electronic Resources"
--under the "C", click on "CSUDH Digital Masters Theses"
You may be prompted for your name and barcode number:
-- your name is your last name
-- your barcode number is 20550 followed by your 9 digit student ID
number, no dashes or spaces
Once you are logged in to the ProQuest / UMI database that contains
CSUDH theses,
follow the database instructions to:
-- search for recent titles / authors you located in the online catalog
-- search by keyword, author or adviser
-- view online 24 page previews
-- download free electronic copy in.pdf format for many thesis titles.
Online masters theses and dissertations in humanities and social sciences from
thousands of universities:
-- go to the Library home page
-- under "Library Materials", click "Journal Articles and Electronic Resources"
--click "Alphabetical List of Journal Article Indexes and Electronic Resources"
--under the "D", click on "Dissertations and Theses Database (Humanities & Social Sciences (Proquest)".
You may be prompted for your name and barcode number:
-- your name is your last name
-- your barcode number is 20550 followed by your 9 digit student ID
number, no dashes or spaces
Once you are logged in to the ProQuest / UMI database that contains
over a million masters theses and dissertations, follow the database instructions to:
-- search for recent titles / authors you located in the online catalog
-- search by keyword, author or adviser
-- view online 24 page previews
-- download free electronic copy in.pdf format for many titles.
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Locate Library Catalogs to Find Out What Other Libraries Own / Use Interlibrary Loan Services:
- Because library users rarely find all of the resource materials they need at any one library, libraries cooperate by borrowing items from one another for their users.
This system of borrowing and lending is called Interlibrary Loan or ILL.
Inquire at the ILL Department of any public or academic library to inquire whether that library can
provide you with ILL service.
Exact ILL arrangements and regulations will differ from library to library.
- If your local library does not own an item you need, complete their ILL form with the exact
bibliographic information or citation for the material you need.
Your library (the borrowing library) then sends your request electronically to a library that does own
the requested material. The lending library sends the requested material, if it is available for lending,
to you in care of your local library.
As this process can take several weeks or more, plan ahead and begin your search early.
- the CSUDH Library will borrow journal articles from other libraries on behalf of
distance learning students.
- Articles that arrive at CSUDH in electronic form will be e-mailed to you.
- Articles that arrive in hard copy will, whenever possible, be scanned and e-mailed to you.
- Articles that are too long to be scanned (over 25 pages) or articles we are unable to
scan successfully will be faxed or mailed to you.
- Under exceptional circumstances, we may also request and scan or mail individual book chapters.
The CSUDH ILL request forms are on the CSUDH Library website: http://library.csudh.edu/ill.htm
(or click Interlibrary Loan on the Quick Links dropdown menu on the RH side of the home page)
For additional information about ILL services at CSUDH, call 310-243-3716 or e-mail
ill@csudh.edu
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Ask for Reference and Research Help:
- For immediate online assistance with doing research, finding information for
assignments and citing sources and preparing a bibliography, visit our
Helpful Tips for Using the Library page. Here you will find links to:
-- a tutorial on doing research and locating information
-- a system for evaluating websites
-- a guide to identifying scholarly journals
-- examples of how to cite your sources in a research paper
- For brief information and research assistance when you are working on assignments and projects,
CSUDH Reference staff can also help you.
Our support ranges from verifying a bibliographic citation to answering a factual question to
suggesting strategies and/or appropriate resources you could use to do research for a paper or project.
Call the Reference Desk, 310-243-3582, (during Library hours) to speak to a reference librarian in person.
- Not sure how to search for articles? Try our How To Find Articles help page for assistance.
- For detailed assistance with information and research, contact
the distance learning librarian :
(310) 243-2088.
Some limits do apply:
- we will not do the actual research for you; e.g.: we cannot respond to a request such as
"Send me a list of everything the library has on Byzantine history".
However, we can help you determine whether resources are available on a topic.
- we can answer no more than three factual or bibliographic verification questions at
one time.
- we will try to respond within 24 hours (Monday-Friday) of receiving e-mail requests, but,
due to staffing limitations, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so.
(The 24-hour response time does not apply to requests received over the weekend or to responses we send you by mail).
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