"Course reserves" are specific items that class instructors keep in the library (or on the library website) for students to easily access.
There are 2 types of Reserves:
You may have to check both places in order to find the reserve materials for your class.
Bibliographies and works-cited pages are an important—but sometimes difficult—part of research. The libraries provides a number of resources to help you, including:
The Map Cases are located on the second floor of Lied Library. Our large flat maps are located in these cases, and are called UNLV Maps in the online catalog. Folded maps are in the Government Publications stacks, and are called UNLV Gov Pubs.
The Lied Library map collection contains a wide variety of maps, including maps accompanying environmental impact statements for federal and state land, U.S. Geological Survey, miscellaneous maps treated as government publications, and CD-ROMs containing maps that have been scanned or loaded as datafiles.
Most federal, state, and local publications are located in the compact shelving on the east side of second floor of Lied Library, behind the bound periodicals. Microforms and CD-ROMs are located in cases on the second floor. Some titles are kept in the reference collection near the second floor desk. Government publications located in LASR (our automated storage and retrieval system) are indicated as such in the online catalog.
Ask at the second floor Research and Information desk for more assistance.
Government publications can cover virtually any subject, including Congressional laws and hearings, nutrition, crime, diseases, endangered species, and immigration. The U.S. federal government is the world's greatest collector and publisher of statistics.
Government publications are documents issued, published, or financed by local, state, federal, or international government agencies, such as the Department of Education, the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles, or the City of Henderson. Government publications come in many formats, including books, maps, periodicals, microforms, pamphlets, CD-ROMs, and Internet sites.
Yes! During chat reference hours you can click the link below. If chat reference is closed, you can send an e-mail.
A screen name is a name that you choose to identify yourself online when instant messaging with others. You will need to establish a screen name with one of the supported Instant Messaging services before logging in and chatting with a librarian.
There are a number of instant messaging options to choose from. The UNLV Libraries Instant Messaging Reference Service supports the following freely available applications:
Instant Messaging is a form of electronic communication that uses software such as AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), Yahoo! Messenger and MSN Messenger to exchange text-based messages between two or more people in real-time.
LASR is a storage area where older or less used items are kept in order to make room on the shelves for newer material. It's located on the 1st floor of Lied Library, behind the glass wall opposite the reference desk.
Books and journals can be retrieved from LASR by using the Request This Item button in the catalog:
Several things can be going wrong:
As a result of the way the web and your browser work, you may experience problems using the Back button with your web browser to switch to another database. If this happens go back to the UNLV Libraries homepage (www.library.unlv.edu) connect to the database from the journal articles page.
You will not need to re-enter your library barcode number and PIN when you switch to another database unless you close your browser or are inactive for more than ten minutes. All logins expire at midnight.
Several things can cause this problem:
Yes, you must enable cookies to remotely use the databases. Both EZproxy and certain databases send "cookies" to your browser when you connect to verify that you are an authorized user. These cookies are deleted when your session is over. If you are not sure how to enable cookies, http://www.google.com/cookies.html has directions for most browsers.
Yes. The remote access system is set up to use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology to encrypt your barcode and PIN. After you have successfully logged in, you are connected to a database. The browser is just letting you know that you are moving from a secure site, to one that does not need this type of security.
Many workplaces have a firewall, preset security settings, or their own proxy server. All of these can interfere with remote access. You will need to talk to the network administrator at your place of business to see if remote access will be possible.
This means something is wrong on our end. Use our Report a Problem form to let us know what database or journal you were trying to access and we will check to make sure it is set up correctly to enable remote access.
This means that you have successfully logged on, but that you have attempted to connect to a database which limits the number of people who can use the database at the same time, and that limit has been reached. For some of our database subscriptions, we are limited in terms of the maximum number of simultaneous users. If the maximum number of users are using the database already and you try to access, this is the message you will see. Try again later.
This means that a wrong barcode was entered in the login screen. Try re-entering the information. It could also mean your RebelCard is not activated with the library. Bring your RebelCard to any of the UNLV Libraries' Circulation Desks to activate your card.
If you have not set up your PIN , you can do it now by following these simple, SELF-SERVICE procedures:
Or select the FULL SERVICE option and ask a staff member at the Lied Library Circulation Desk or any of the branch libraries to set a PIN for you.
Having difficulty finding what you need? There are many ways for you to get help!
Use the Find Articles and More page to choose a database by subject. Listed below are some popular databases that offer complete articles (requires UNLV authentication):
Some of the links in Google Scholar will lead to full-text documents located at publishers' pay-per-view web sites. UNLV students, faculty and staff do not need to pay for access to many of these items. If you have set your Library Links preference to UNLV, the "Get Text from UNLV" link will appear for all articles that UNLV pays for access to. If no "Get Text from UNLV" link appears, you can use the "Check UNLV Holdings" link to find out if UNLV has a print subscription to that journal or to request a copy of the article from UNLV Libraries Interlibrary Loan.
Search results may include citations [CITATION], books [BOOK], PDFs [PDF] and PostScript documents [PS]. PDF and PostScript documents will have clickable title links that point to abstracts or full text, but citations and books will not.
Citations are items that have been extracted from the references, footnotes or bibliographies of documents indexed by Google Scholar. They typically do not have clickable links, but the citation usually gives you enough information to track down the item if you want to read it. Clicking on 'Web Search' will start a search for the citation using the standard Google search engine - this can help you determine the title of the book or journal the article was published in if it is abbreviated in the citation.
You can use the Library Catalog (for books) or the list of UNLV Print and Online Journal Subscriptions (for journals) to see if UNLV has access to the item being cited. For more hints on tracking down a copy of the journal with the article you want, see the Find Journals page.
Books appear in search results when a document indexed by Google Scholar references a book. Google Scholar creates a book result, but doesn't link to the actual book. If you have set UNLV as your Library Links preference, the "Check UNLV holdings" link will appear, allowing you to search the UNLV Library Catalog or put in a interlibrary loan request to borrow an item from another library. A 'Web Search' will start a search using the standard Google search engine, and will often lead to Amazon and other commercial sites where books may be purchased.
Yes! Use Google Scholar's Advanced Search to search by author, publication, and date. Increase the accuracy and effectiveness of Google Scholar searches by checking out Advanced Scholar Search Tips.
Clicking the 'Cited by' link will display a list of articles and documents that have cited the document originally retrieved in the search. This makes it possible to uncover other documents related by topic or subject to the original document. However, Google Scholar only includes articles that are indexed within its database, and this is a much smaller subset of scholarly articles than found in some other UNLV-subscribed databases. Some databases that include citation-based searching, and that may yield more comprehensive results, include:
To find items cited in the bibliographies of books, try Google Book Search. This tool lets you find your search term in the full text of books, but it will not let you view entire books online. It will show you a few pages surrounding your search hits and link you to an online bookstore. Check the Library Catalog to see if UNLV owns a copy of a book you find in Google Book Search.
From the Google Scholar Preferences page, search for UNLV. After you search, check the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries (Get Text from UNLV) box. If you are not working on a computer on the UNLV campus, you will be asked to enter your barcode number to get access to articles that are part of UNLV's collection.
A "Get Text from UNLV" link will appear next to the title of an article when UNLV has online subscription access. You will also have the ability to check UNLV Libraries' print holdings for some items using the "Check UNLV holdings" link.
Google Scholar searches a specific subset of Google's index and covers a wide range of academic content areas; however coverage appears to be strongest in science and technology, and weakest in the humanities. Just as with Google's standard Web Search, Google Scholar ranks and lists results according to how relevant they are to the search query. The most relevant references should theoretically appear at the top of the page.
Google Scholar searches for scholarly materials such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from broad areas of research. Google Scholar searches a variety of undisclosed academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. The full text of many items is freely available online, although in some instances abstracts with links to pay-per-view interlibrary loan are displayed.
While we encourage you to try Google Scholar, keep in mind that this software is 'in Beta.' Beta status indicates that Google Scholar is still in development, and you may therefore encounter some inconsistencies or peculiarities. Databases found on the Find Articles and More page will let you search scholarly information with specialized search tools designed to help you retrieve exactly what you need.
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