Welcome to the Virtual Library

Greetings to the Students of the IS 151 course.

Below you will find a sampling of the many resources made available to you via the Ruidoso Campus library's webpages!

Books

You have a variery of options for locating and accessing books.

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   Go get em!..............Illiad (inter library Loan Sysyem). Used in conjunction with a holdings catalog such as World Cat allows you to request that actual books be sent to you from any library any where.


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   E-books from NetLibrary allows you to read electronic versions of published books online.


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   Services such as Manybooks.net allow you to download books to your computer or other e-reading device to read at your leasure.
   

Journals

Can be accessed via name of the magazine or via searches for a specific set of search terms.

Some of our database choices are:

New Mexico Newspapers

• Albuquerque Journal
  
• Las Cruses Sun Times
  
• Roswell Daily News
  
  
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Welcome Back! UNIV 101 Freshman Seminar

In this session we will look at finding Quality Resource materials in Journals, Magazines and on the Internet.

Periodical Databases can be found on our Online research page: http://www.ruidoso.enmu.edu/library/research.html

Remember that access to the databases is via your student ID# and that search the general databases category will give you the broadest range of source materials, while using the discipline specific recommendations will help you keep the sources within the scope of your course's field of study.

In seeking Quality look for: Academic Journal: •Reputation of the Source Publication •Author & his/her credentials •Currency of information: date •References and source materials

Website: •Sponsor of the site •Author & Creditability •Currency of information: last updated •References and support materials •Additional links

Welcome UNIV 101 class: Freshman Seminar

The Ruidoso Campus Library is here for you!!! ... M - Th 8am - 9pm, F -8am - 5pm and Saturday 10am - 4pm. As well as 24/7 @

http://www.ruidoso.enmu.edu/library

Things to do:

• Set Your e-mail: E-mail Setup


• Register with Illiad ILLiad logon and registration

With an active e-mail and Illiad account you can request any of the 400,000+ books or any journal articles available from the main campus collection.

Resources:

Search our catalog for books: Ruidoso College Collection

Books through Intra Library Loan: WorldCat (world-wide catalog of books)

Deciding on topics: try Points of View (from our online resources page)

For articles on your chosen topic: Wilson Select Full Text Plus , ProQuest Research , or Academic Search Premier (also from our Online resources page)

Access to these database sources is via your ENMU ID#. Also, it is recommended that you first restrict your results to full text retrieval and designate that you want scholarly or peer-reviewed journal articles.

Additional Sources:

New Mexico Newspapers : Albuquerque Journal, Las Cruces Sun, and Roswell Daily Record

Remote access solution for Database access problem!

Some remote users are experiencing a denied access with the databases.
If you are seeing the following message:

This is cookie.htm from the docs subdirectory.
Licensing agreements for these databases require that access be extended only to authorized users. Once you have been validated by this system, a "cookie" is sent to your browser as an ongoing indication of your authorization to access these databases. It will only need to be set once during login.
As you access databases, they may also use cookies. Your ability to use those databases may depend on whether or not you allow those cookies to be set.
To login again, click here.

Please try the following procedure:

In Internet Explorer, go to Tools-->Internet Options-->Privacy tab-->Advanced Privacy settings.
Check these boxes: (1)Override automatic cookie handling,
and "Accept" on (2) First-party and (3) Third-party cookies, and (4) Always allow session cookies.

I am not sure why this is happening with the browsers on some computers and not others but is seems to resolve the problem.

Bookman