Research Guides: Distance Learning Services at Preston Library: Home

Welcome!
Your classes are now online - so are we.

Please use this guide to access Preston Library's Distance Learning Services related to our current operations and response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including updates to operations, access to distance learning services, and other helpful resources.
Preston Library is closed, but our Staff are still available to assist you.
For questions or concerns, please contact us at: Library@vmi.edu

For Cadets:	For Faculty:
Research & Consultation opportunities: Have a question about citations or finding sources for your paper? Email us - ReferenceDesk@vmi.edu Meet With Us via Zoom - click here to make an appointment	Our instruction opportunities are offered via Zoom: Need a Librarian to teach you or your cadets research skills? Need a workshop on media software? Email us - ReferenceDesk@vmi.edu

For Cadets:

For Faculty:

Research & Consultation opportunities:

Have a question about citations or finding sources for your paper?
Email us - ReferenceDesk@vmi.edu
Meet With Us via Zoom - click here to make an appointment

Our instruction opportunities are offered via Zoom:

Need a Librarian to teach you or your cadets research skills?
Need a workshop on media software?
Email us - ReferenceDesk@vmi.edu

VMI Canvas Options for Distance Learning
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Linking to Database Content
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Course Reserves
Faculty & Cadet access points for Course Reserves.

Course Reserves

FOR CADETS - Access Course Reserves

FOR FACULTY - Submit Course Reserves

While interlibrary loan will continue to request all electronic format items, we will not accept requests for books and other physical items until cadets have returned to Post.

In lieu of an entire book, identify the relevant chapter(s) and we will request scans.
Most libraries are not licensed to lend ebooks so it is unlikely that we will be able to obtain them.
Please keep any interlibrary loan materials that you may have at this time until further notice.

Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
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Please Note: Due to construction activities taking place at Preston Library’s entrance, the Faculty Only pick up service will be temporarily suspended starting April 11, 2020. Once that work is concluded then we will revisit the restoration of the service.

Preston Library offers subscriptions to the following streaming services:

Kanopy
Coverage: 1900 - present
Large selection of streaming videos, including documentaries and feature films for the humanities and social and natural sciences.
Films On Demand: Master Academic Package
Coverage: Varies.
Streaming video service of almost 26,000 full length videos of high-quality educational titles. Subject sets featured include: business & economics, humanities & social sciences, science & mathematics, health & medicine. This collection also includes thousands of video segments and a collection of archival films & newsreels. Special features allow users the ability to organize and bookmark segments, create and share playlists. Most videos available with closed-captioning and interactive transcripts and may be viewed through most mobile devices.

We also offer ebook resources:

Ebook Central
Coverage: varies by publication
EBooks from scholarly sources, including University Presses and other top publishers in a variety of subjects including: business, health & medicine, history, literature & language, and science & technology.

Unlimited simultaneous use of these academic eBooks that encompass many subjects. You may read on your screen, or, with Adobe Digital Editions, download chapters.
eBook Academic Collection
Coverage: 1800 - present
More than 130,000 ebook titles representing a broad range of subject matter from leading university presses and academic publishers. Subject coverage includes the arts, business and economics, education, language arts, literary criticism, political science, religion, social sciences, and other academic fields.

Search for scholarly articles, journals, books, and more:

JSTOR
Coverage: Typically, 4 years behind current date.
Articles from over 2,600 scholarly journals and 62,000 ebooks in the humanities, social sciences and sciences.

Databases A-Z
Searchable alphabetical list of all of Preston Library's available databases.
Research Guides
These research guides are organized by subject. If there was a guide specifically made for your class then click on the subject link and then click one of the left side tabs to navigate to your course guide.