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Wharton
Campus
911 Boling Highway
Wharton, Texas 77488
1-800-561-WCJC (9252)
979-532-4560 |
Ft. Bend Tech
Center
5333 FM 1640
Richmond, Texas 77469
1-800-561-WCJC (9252)
281-239-1500 |
Sugar Land
Campus
550 Julie Rivers Drive
Sugar Land, Texas 77478
1-800-561-WCJC (9252)
281-243-8447 |
Bay City Campus
4000 Avenue F
Bay City, Texas 77414
979-244-4552
1-800-561-WCJC (9252)
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Library Tutorials (recommend for Distance Learning students)
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Resources and
Services available to you through WCJC Libraries
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Ask a
Librarian
Are
you having trouble finding articles in the WCJC
library databases: Not sure how to tell if a website
is a reliable source of information? If you have
concerns like these, or any other questions about
doing research, help is just a click away!
…..or, send an email to
wcjclibrary@wcjc.edu, call 979-532-6953 or
281-243-8417, or walk in and ask in person.
Tutorials – Power Point
Presentation on
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General Information:
library services, books collection and basic
searching strategy databases etc.
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Finding Library Books:
to familiarize you with the items available to
you through WCJC libraries, along with some
helpful tips on how to locate them via online
catalog
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Finding e-Books:
to familiarize you with about 27,000 electronic
books available to you over the web, and how to
use them. NetLibrary
e-Books are digital full-text versions of books
such as reference works, scholarly monographs,
literature and fiction.
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Using Online
Databases:
WCJC libraries
subscribe to about 27,000 eBooks and over 20
online databases to provide access to millions
of multi-disciplinary and full text publications
and peer-reviewed journals. A
registered student can log in remotely to our
subscription databases 7 days/24 hours through the
page of the library proxy server at
http://libproxy.wcjc.cc.tx.us/login or visit
WCJC web site at http://www.wcjc.edu. Select Library, choose
Search Databases and click on Online
Databases (Proxy Server)
Enter Username:
last name (either upper or lower case is fine)
Password: birth date (enter as MMDDYYYY Example:
01211976)
Types of sources in the databases, with example
Finding
Newspaper Articles
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for questions:
I
need several Houston Chronicle
articles on the most recent education issues in
Texas
Finding
Magazine/Journal Articles
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for questions
Articles on Federalism from an American
perspective
Criticism on Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, The
Black Cat
Cite Your Sources
Get
ready to cite your sources as you do your research.
That means noting the citation information for
sources as you select them. Adopt a bibliographic
style and use it to give credit whenever you use
someone else's words or ideas in your writing.
Some databases provide you the help information on
how to cite your sources, such as Academic Search
Premier (EBSCO), Student Resources Gold (Gale) or CQ
Researcher. The two most common bibliographic
styles used at WCJC for documenting sources of
information are:
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