Waggoner Library: Information Technology: Library Resources

Waggoner Library provides access to the latest research including over 200,000 eBooks, 90,000 print books; several thousand streaming video files; local, regional, national & international newspapers; hundreds of thousands of full text journal and magazine articles, trade publications, and doctoral dissertations are all part of the library's collection.

Online access is 24/7. The library website and online catalog provide access to all library collections, resources and services. Click the tabs above to learn more.

Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Ultimate is a multi-disciplinary database of over 10,000 academic journals, newspapers, magazines, reports, and books.

Primary IT related databases include:

Business Source Ultimate This link opens in a new window
It is a superior database for full-text journals in all business disciplines, including IT, AI, marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance, and economics.
Communications and Mass Media This link opens in a new window
This collection provides current information from more than 100 journals focused on all aspects of the communications field including technology applications.
Gale OneFile: Information Science This link opens in a new window
From nearly 100 leading industry journals with appropriate and useful information in IT areas of expertise, including such topics as information infrastructure, data processing techniques, metadata architectures, and more.

Books (print and eBook formats) are found on the library website

Over 90,000 print and 200,000 eBooks are part of the library collection.
Discovery search allows you to filter search results by print or eBook collections.
Discovery search results can be filtered to limit to Trevecca holdings or include other libraries.
Interlibrary Loan requests can be made online from the TNU library web site.
IT books can be found in the T (technology), QA (computer science), or NC (graphic design).

View Discovery Search: Books tutorial below to learn more.

Waggoner eBook collections are accessed through the library website where all titles are integrated into search results. Use the fliter option to limit results to ebook only.

As convenient as eBooks are, they are not perfect and restrictions exist. Copyright and Digital Rights Management (DRM) limits how they can be accessed and downloaded. Click here for the eBook Research Guide to see details like creating an account, printing, or how to check out an eBook title. The guide will take you through the process of viewing eBooks here at Trevecca and highlight restrictions you are likely to encounter and the best way to manage these problems.

EBSCO eBook Collection This link opens in a new window
Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Ebook Central This link opens in a new window

TIPS FOR EFFECTIVE USE OF eBOOKs

NEVER download a library eBook for a class assignment unless you see that it has 'UNLIMITED USE'!

If you don't see that information you need to assume the title has LIMITED use. This means once it has been downloaded it is NO LONGER viewable online - prohibiting anyone else in your class use of the book.

To complete your assignment you can create a PDF for a page range and email that to yourself. Federal copyright law has a limit of 60 pp but some publishers (Baker Books) have a limit of 12 pp at one time. You can log in again to retrieve additional pages.

Internet browsers do make a difference. Firefox users may need to adjust the browser settings to open PDFs within the browser. To adjust the Firefox browser settings:

Select Options from the Tools menu in Firefox
Select Applications in the resulting Options window
Click Portable Document Format in the Content Type column
Select Use Adobe Acrobat (in Firefox) in the drop-down menu to the right of Portable Document Format
Click OK if you have the option, otherwise close the box

Looking for a quality Infographic, charts or other statistical information for a presentation or research?

Statista.com is one of the first statistic portals in the world to integrate data on over 80.000 topics from over 18.000 sources onto a single professional platform. Categorized into 21 market sectors, Statista.com provides the academic community, companies, and research institutions with direct access to quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets. Below is an example of an infographic from Statista.

Learn more about Statista from this introductory video.

Films on Demand is a collection of streaming videos from several publishers including Films for the Humanities, PBS, BBC, & other documentary producers.

Jump here to search Films on Demand.

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