New Hours & Journal Databases

New Hours!

The library's hours are changing. Effective March 1, 2010 the library will open at 7:30 Monday through Friday and will close at 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 5 p.m. on Friday. The library will no longer have Saturday hours. Students who need access to a computer lab on Saturdays will be able to use LH 204. As always, a significant portion of the library's resources are available to students, faculty and staff via the internet. They can select an online resource and log on using their DACC user i.d. and password.

JSTOR Available!

The library has added renowned journal archives JSTOR to the electronic resources it makes available to students. For users familiar with JSTOR, its contents are made available to libraries in "collections" based on subject matter. Its contents also exist behind a "rolling wall," meaning that the most recent years of journals are not included, but years are added as time progresses. DACC students will be able to search JSTOR for journal articles in music, the performing and cinematic arts, literature, religion and art. This collection complements other academic journal resources the library provides, which include access to a majority of the journals published by Sage and Elsevier (although we do not get the entire Elsevier backfile only the most recent 15 years of most publications). Our subscriptions to these publisher databases provide the DACC community with direct access to a significant amount of premium publisher content. Many additional journals can be accessed via the aggregated databases, such as EbscoHost, which will will also link users to those articles from the publisher databases that are merely cited in the original database with the aid of the Find It! links. But users should realize that not all of the journals in the publisher databases are indexed in any given database, so searching a publisher's database as well can often prove useful or even faster depending upon the user's needs. For help with JSTOR or any library database or tool like Find It!, contact the Reference Desk x739.