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elibrary USAWHAT IS IT AND HOW TO
ACCCESS IT?
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PLEASE COMPLETE THE REGISTRATION FORM AND THE COMMITMENT PLEDGE WE ARE NOW DISTRIBUTING
Your complete email will serve as your logon.e.g. [email protected]
We need to manually register you in a central database, so, please, write the commitment pledge legibly, especially your email.
Within a week, a welcome message from eLibraryUSA will appear in your Inbox, along with your personal password.
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HOW TO ACCESS eLU: Go to http://elibraryusa.state.gov
(note there is no www in the URL)
Type in your complete email address: don’t forget the @ part of the email – and then type in your personal password in the space indicated.
You know you are successful once you see ALL RESOURCES at the very top.
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THIS IS WHAT eLIBRARYUSA LOOKS LIKE: ALLOWS ACCESS TO OVER 30 DIFFERENT DATABASES: NOTE TOP RIGHT WHERE YOU ENTER YOUR LOGIN AND PASSWORD
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ONCE YOU LOG IN, CLICK ON THE ARROW FOR RESOURCES AND SELECT ALL RESOURCES
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ONCE SUCCESSFULLY LOGGED IN, THIS IS WHAT YOU WILL SEE
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ACADEMIC ONEFILE: 18,000 TITLES; OVER 2/3 IN FULL TEXT Updated daily! Goes back to 1980 To see Title List; click on TOOLS at very top
and then Title list – will give individual journal titles indexed in this database.
This will give you an Excel Spreadsheet indicating the exact dates of when a specific journal was indexed and if full text or not.
By clicking on ENGLISH at the very top, one can see the journals in a specific language (French) and then search those journals in French!
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THE TOOLS AND ENGLISH SECTIONS OF ACADEMIC ONE FILE
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WE WILL SHOW THE DATABASES: ACADEMIC ONEFILE : ALWAYS USE THE ADVANCED SEARCH OPTION; HERE IS A SAERCH ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND DEFORESTATION
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HERE ARE SOME OF THE RESULTS OF THE SEARCH: 174 ARTICLES RETRIEVED
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HERE IS THE COMPLETE ARTICLE, FULL TEXT: NOTE PRINT, DOWNLOAD, EMAIL OPTIONS TO THE RIGHT
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ONE CAN DO A VERY ADVANCED SEARCH IN ACADEMIC OneFile, specifying a publication, example below, please
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RESULTS OF THAT SEARCH: THIS TYPE OF SEARCH IS GREAT FOR LOCATING STATISTICS ON A PARTICULAR COUNTRY
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HERE IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE: SEARCHING CRS REPORTS: CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE
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RESULTS OF THAT SEARCH
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IN ACADEMIC ONEFILE, TRY A SUBJECT GUIDE SEARCH – SEARCH DIABETES AND THEN CAN LIMIT TO THERAPY.
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NOTE ALL THE SUBDIVISIONS UNDER DIABETES THERAPY: YOU CAN CLICK ON ANY OF THESE SUBDIVISIONS TO RETRIEVE SPECIFIC RESULTS.
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ONE CAN ALSO CREATE A SEARCH ALERT, ALERTING YOU WHEN A NEW JOURNAL IS COMING OUT OR NEW RESULTS ON YOUR TOPIC.
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WHEN YOU CLICK ON CREATE SEARCH ALERT, THIS DIALOG BOX POPS UP.
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eBRARY DATABASE: FULL TEXT BOOKS, OVER 20,000 IN ENGLISH
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AGAIN, PLEASE ALWAYS OPT FOR THE ADVANCED SEARCH FEATURE: A SEARCH ON CLIMATE CHANGE
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RESULTS OF eBRARY SEARCH ON “CLIMATE CHANGE”
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FULL TEXT OF BOOK RETRIEVED IN THE eBRARY DATABASE
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ADDITIONAL DATABASES STUDENTS AND RESEARCHERS LOVE! THE GALE DIRECTORY LIBRARY AND THE GALE VIRTUAL REFERENCE LIBRARY
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THE GALE DIRECTORY LIBRARY RETRIEVES SCHOLARSHIP INFORMATION; AGAIN, OPT FOR ADVANCED SEARCH
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IN ADVANCED SEARCH, CHOOSE “SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS AND LOANS,” TYPE IN THE SUBJECT YOU WISH TO STUDY, GENDER RESTRICTIONS, IF APPLICABLE, AND THEN SEARCH
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RESULTS OF THAT SEARCH
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NOTE THAT YOU CAN EXPORT THE RESULTS OF THAT SEARCH TO YOUR EMAIL: TO DO THIS, MARK ALL, CLICK ON EXPORT LIST, AND TYPE THE EMAIL ADDRESS WHERE YOU WANT THE EXPORT LIST TO APPEAR
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WHEN YOU CLICK EXPORT LIST AND TYPE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS, YOU WILL SEE A CONFIRMATION BELOW; MAKE SURE YOU WRITE YOUR OWN PERSONAL MESSAGE SO YOU DON’T FORGET WHAT THIS LIST REPRESENTS.
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THE GALE VIRTUAL REFERENCE LIBRARY HAS MANY THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF REFERENCE AND RESEARCH TITLES AVAILABLE FREE FOR YOU TO USE -- CLICK ON TITLE LIST TO SEE ALL THE TITLES
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NOTE THE BUSINESS PLANS HANDBOOK, CITIES OF THE U.S., AFRICAN AMERICAN ALMANAC, COLLEGE BLUE BOOK, AND 50 OTHER UNIQUE TITLES
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HERE ARE JUST A FEW OF THE OTHER TITLES AVAILABLE IN THE GALE VIRTUAL REFERENCE LIBRARY
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THE GALE VIRTUAL REFERENCE LIBRARY NOW HAS eBOOKS AND TRAVEL GUIDES.
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GVRL NOW HAS TRAVEL BOOKS AS WELL;NOTE OTHER CATEGORIES ON YOUR LEFT
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WITHIN GVRL, YOU NOW HAVE MANY OPTIONS
You can listen to the text and download the MP3 files
You can convert the text to PDF for a prettier look and feel
You can translate the article into French, Spanish or Portuguese.
You can download the article You can even take the PDF and download to
your eReader – iPad or even to your Kindle
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HOW TO TAKE A PDF AND SEND TO YOUR EREADER Your eReader can display PDF documents without
losing the formatting of the original file. Works for iPADs and Kindles! USB transfer to Kindle.
Send PDF documents directly to your eReader (i.e. via your @Kindle address) or drag and drop PDF files from your computer to your eReader (when connected via USB). Clicking on Share, sends it to another iPad. This can only be done chapter by chapter.
For additional information, please see your eReader's instruction guide
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IN THE TECHNOLOGY SECTION OF GVRL, CAN SEE BOOKS ON MAC, WINDOWS 7, iPHONE, etc.
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LITERARY RESOURCE CENTER: HERE IS A SAMPLE SEARCH ON TONI MORRISON, SORTED BY RELEVANCE; NOTE THAT HER SPECIFIC WORKS ARE DISCUSSED ON THE LEFT
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WITH LITERARY RESOURCE CENTER, ONE CAN SEARCH NATIONALITY TO DISCOVER AUTHORS –LET’S SAY I WAS SEARCHING FOR NIGERIAN AUTHORS, BUT DID NOT KNOW SPECIFIC NAMES. HERE IS HOW I WOULD DO THE SEARCH: START WITH PERSON SEARCH
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SIMILARLY, ONE CAN DO A MORE COMPLEX SEARCH: FIND SHORT STORIES BY AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES: THIS WILL RETRIEVE SPECIFIC AUTHORS. (USE PERSON SEARCH)
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AGAIN, THERE ARE OVER 30 OTHER DATABASES IN eLIBRARYUSA YOU CAN ACCESS: LISTED IN OUR eLIBRARYUSA BROCHURE
Questions?
Make sure to always consult the Quick Guide to the right of any database for specific information about what topics are covered and what time period is included.
Please ask your IRC: Information Resource Center, for more information and assistance.
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ONE ADDITIONAL ITEM: A SEARCH ENGINE THAT SEARCHES JUST RESEARCH MATERIAL
SEARCHES eDISSERTATIONS, eTHESES, SCHOLARLY ARTICLES, THINK TANK REPORTS and PUBLICATIONS on any topic, not just Climate Change.
The Search Engine may be found here: http://goo.gl/fA1re
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SEARCHING CLIMATE CHANGE AND DEFORESTATION
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RESULTS OF CUSTOM SEARCH
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EXAMPLE OF A DISSERTATION RETRIEVED VIA THIS SEARCH ENGINE
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ANOTHER RESULT, AN EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND DEFORESTATION, BY THE CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE (CRS)
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CONTACT INFORMATION STEPHEN PERRY, IRO, U.S. EMBASSY ACCRA [email protected]
Rita Awuku, IRC Director, Accra [email protected]
Jennifer Yeboah, IRC Assistant, Accra [email protected]
IRC ACCRA: [email protected]
THANKS!