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Distance, Online, Extension

Online & Network Site Students

Library Resources for Online/Distance Students

  • Articles, book chapters, and commentary sections can be scanned and emailed.
    • You can request these through the Article Search on the Library homepage.
    • For items that we hold in the physical collection, the Scan Request option will appear in the 'Access Options' dropdown.
    • Requests must comply with copyright law - no more than one chapter or 10% of the resource (whichever is larger) can be scanned for a patron.
    • Questions about scans should be directed to circ@seu.edu.
  • Some Steelman Library items can be mailed to students' homes.
    • Loans are automatically extended by two weeks to allow for shipping.
    • Return packaging and return shipping are included.
    • Only shipping to the continental US is possible at this time.
    • 7 day loans, textbooks, reference books, reserve items, and periodicals are NOT eligible for distance borrowing.
    • Place a hold on the items you're requesting through the catalog (or Book Search on the library homepage), select 'Distance Student - Mail' and confirm your mailing address in the Notes section, or respond to the email confirmation, if applicable. Books will be shipped to the address on file with the school.
    • Questions about this service should be directed to circ@seu.edu.
  • Interlibrary Loan is able to request articles and chapter scans for items which are not in the Steelman collection.
    • You can fill out the ILL request form here.
    • Please keep in mind while researching:
      • ILL requests are processed during office hours M-F.
      • ILL requests must comply with copyright law - no more than one chapter or 10% of the resource (whichever is larger) can be scanned for a patron.
      • ILL requests can take several business days to fill, depending on the library lending the resource. Sometimes ILL requests cannot be filled depending on availability.
      • ILL requests for books, DVDs, and any other physical items cannot be placed on behalf of distance students, as we will not mail those on.
    • Questions about ILL should be directed to ill@seu.edu

Finding Journal Articles

Using EBSCO to Find Scholarly Articles

Article & Journal Searching

To find articles published in periodicals (magazines, newspapers, journals, etc.), you will need to use a database. Databases can be multi-disciplinary (EBSCO, Proquest) or subject specific (ERIC, PSYCInfo). They can be searched in numerous ways: by author, title of the article or periodical, by keyword, or subject.

How to Select a Database

Click the "Library Databases" link below. You will find descriptions of database contents printed next to the database link.

Full-Text Available or Citation/Abstract Only?

If you need to be able to read the article immediately, be sure to click the "Full Text Only" box near the search box.

Locating a Known Article

If you are looking for a known article (you already have the citation from a reference book, bibliography, another article, etc.), try:

  • Use the A-to-Z Journal List link below - Search by journal title to see if a particular journal is fulltext and to be directed to that full text content
  • Search the library catalog by journal title to find out if a particular journal title (magazine, journal, newspaper, etc.) is available in print. Print periodicals are arranged alphabetically by title on the 1st floor of the library. Older issues can be found on the 2nd Floor.
  • Do a search on the web. Although most journal articles are not available for free, sometimes you may find what you are looking for.
  • If you cannot locate the full-text in print or electronic format, you may request the item using the library's interlibrary loan service.

Resources

General Databases to Start Research

  • Academic Search Complete
    EBSCO logo
    Scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database.
  • Oxford English Dictionary
    Oxford English Dictionary
    The accepted authority on English language meaning, history, and pronunciation.
  • ProQuest
    ProQuest
    General index of articles on nearly every topic.
  • SIRS Issue Researcher
    SIRS Issue Researcher
    A comprehensive database portal which is comprised of several distinct reference databases covering social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues.

Interlibrary Loan

When you can't access an article or book, remember to request it from ILL at no cost.

Click this icon in a database, or use the Request Library Materials link below.

Request Library Materials Form
Request (books, chapters, journal articles)
Contact ILL at ill@seu.edu

  • You can request books and articles not available at SEU or other local libraries through Interlibrary Loan.
  • Articles will be emailed to you whenever possible.
  • Books must be picked up from the Steelman Library.
  • Use links from resources to make requests, or use the Interlibrary Loan Request Form.

Need more help?

Circulation

circ@seu.edu
863.667.5059

Reference

863.667.5089

Visit our Library Faculty & Staff Contact page

eBook Resources

  • Digital Public Library of America
    over 5 million items online EBL. 
  • EBSCO eBooks
    EBSCO
    Books can be read online or downloaded (Adobe Digital Editions required for download).
  • Greenwood Business eBooks
    -database
    A collection of 80 full-text business books to read, print, and download.
  • Grace Ebooks
    Hundreds of free PDF Christian ebooks. Search box is at the bottom of the page.
  • HathiTrust
    -database
    Provides preservation and access services for public domain and in-copyright content from a variety of sources. Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives. Open Access
  • LibriVox
    -music
    Hundreds of free open access audio books.
  • On-line Books Page
    From the University of Pennsylvania. Offers 35,000 titles including women writers, banned books and foreign language.
  • Project Gutenberg
    30,000 public domain ebooks with free open access
  • Salem Literature
    -database
    Online database that includes the complete content of Critical Insights, Critical Survey of Long Fiction and Critical Survey of Poetry, Magill's Literary Annual and Masterplots.
  • World Digital Library
    Collection of approximately 1,200 primary works features original books, maps, photographs, and various other materials provided by 27 institutions around the world.
  • Open Access Digital Collections Worldwide
    Many digital collections worldwide.

Adobe Digital Editions on Your Computer

Adobe Digital Editions Adobe Digital Editions

Read ebooks on your computer w/o Internet

  1. First create an Adobe ID https://accounts.adobe.com/
  2. Download and install Digital Editions Download
  3. Enter your Adobe ID
  4. Create an EBSCO ID.
  5. Search for ebooks from EBSCO, download and read them on your computer.
  6. ebooks will automatically delete when the checkout expires.

To Download or Not

Should I read online or download?

Click and read online, easy.

If you want to download...

  1. Create free Ebsco or ProQuest account
  2. Create free Adobe account
  3. Download and install Digital Editions
  4. Authorize Digital Editions
  5. Download your ebook

EBSCO eBooks

Read online, or:

  1. Create an EBSCO ID
  2. Install Adobe Digital Editions
  3. Download ebook
  4. Select 7 or 14 loan based on publisher availability
  5. Select PDF or EPUB
    (​Computer will only get PDF)
    (Your phone will only get EPUB)

EBSCO checkout

Welcome

To find help with writing citation styles:

  1. Click the tabs above
  2. Online Writing Lab (OWL)
  3. Ask a Librarian
  4. Academic Center for Enrichment (ACE) 863-667-5137

Check with your professor or in your syllabus to see which style your paper should be formatted in.

Research Papers

"The purpose of a research paper is to synthesize previous research and scholarship with your ideas on the subject. Therefore, you should feel free to use other persons' words, facts, and thoughts in your research paper, but the material you borrow must not be presented as if it were your own creation."

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7th Edition. New York: MLA. 55. Print.

Overview of Citation Styles

There are quite a few different ways to cite resources in your paper. The citation style usually depends on the academic discipline involved. For example:

Check with your professor to make sure you use the required style. And whatever style you choose, BE CONSISTENT!

Microsoft Word

Office 365

Zotero works best with Microsoft Word and SEU students can get Office 365 at no cost.

Zotero-Citation Management

It is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources.

Zotero works with Microsoft Word to create your bibliography for you.

MLA Guiding Principles

MLA 9: What's new in the Ninth Edition?

Discover style changes from the 8th edition.

Google Docs template for an MLA 9th research paper. 

MLA Handbook 9th Edition

MLA style is…

[a system of] common sense guidelines aimed at helping writers at various levels conduct research and provide their audiences with useful information about their sources.

These principles:

MLA Handbook. Eighth ed., Modern Language Assn., 2016.

  • "Cite simple traits shared by most works...
  • Remember that there is often more than one correct way to document a source...
  • Make your documentation useful to readers" (3-4).

Zotero-Citation Management

It is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources.

Zotero works with Microsoft Word to create your bibliography for you.

Works Cited Quick Guide

MLA 9 Works Cited Quick Guide

List each element relevant to your source in the order shown on the template.

Omit any element that does not apply.

Important/Helpful Links

Zotero for MLA Edition 9

In order to use Zotero most efficiently with MLA 9th Edition, please check the following links to download the appropriate software.

APA Cheat Sheet

Additional Citation Information

Help Finding DOI

If you are citing an article from a scholarly journal and there is no DOI listed, you may click the link below and follow the directions to attempt to find a DOI.

DOI search

Add http://dx.doi.org/ in front of your DOI and it should become a hotlink to the article you are citing if you have the correct DOI.

Microsoft Word

Office 365

Zotero works best with Microsoft Word and SEU students can get Office 365 at no cost.

Guides to APA Style

APA 7

APA 7 Manual

Zotero-Citation Management

It is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources.

Zotero works with Microsoft Word to create your bibliography for you.

AMA Blog and Twitter

Get the lastest updates on AMA Style. Follow @AMAManual on Twitter for daily tips and links or check out the blog.

AMA & Zotero Video

American Medical Association Style Example

The AMA style is radically different from APA. The in-text citations are superscript numbers and the References appear in order with the superscript numbers. Example paragraph with in-text citations. Note references don't have hanging indents and are in the order cited, not alphabetical order by authors last name.

Clinical trials are critical to advancing oncology care and their success is dependent on enrollment. In the United States, only 2–4% of newly diagnosed adult cancer patients participate in clinical trials.1 Manual screening for patient eligibility is expensive and inefficient.2 Automated systems to increase accrual to clinical trials are needed.

Clinical research informatics tools may improve the efficiency of identifying patients for clinical trials.3–5

REFERENCES

  1. Lara PN Jr., Higdon R, Lim N, et al. Prospective evaluation of cancer clinical trial accrual patterns: identifying potential barriers to enrollment. J Clin Oncol. 2001;19(6):1728–1733.
  2. Penberthy LT, Dahman BA, Petkov VI, DeShazo JP. Effort required in eligibility screening for clinical trials. J Oncol Practice. 2012;8(6):365–370.
  3. Miotto R, Weng C. Case-based reasoning using electronic health records efficiently identifies eligible patients for clinical trials. JAMIA. 2015;22(e1): e141–e150.
  4. Ni Y, Wright J, Perentesis J, et al. Increasing the efficiency of trial-patient matching: automated clinical trial eligibility pre-screening for pediatric oncology patients. BMC Med Inform Dec Mak. 2015;15:28.
  5. Seroussi B, Bouaud J. Using OncoDoc as a computer-based eligibility screening system to improve accrual onto breast cancer clinical trials. Artificial Intel Med. 2003;29(1-2):153–167.

Notice the source superscript 3–5 refers to references 3, 4, and 5. Example taken from: Eubank MH, Hyman DM, Kanakamedala AD, Gardos SM, Wills JM, Stetson PD. Automated eligibility screening and monitoring for genotype-driven precision oncology trials. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. March 2016. http://jamia.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/03/25/jamia.ocw020.long

Example AMA Paper

Zotero-Citation Management

It is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources.

Zotero works with Microsoft Word to create your bibliography for you.

Adding AMA Styles to Zotero

AMA that comes with Zotero may not match the version used by our professors. AMA with no URL may be the better style to add to your library.

Turabian that comes with Zotero may not be the version used by our professors. Turabian 8th Edition may be a better starting point.

Additional Info

Additional information on Chicago/Turabian style may be found at the websites below.  Please be aware that websites may refer to Author-Date or In-Text styles that are used by some colleges/departments, but the notes (usually footnotes) and bibliography styles are used in most situations at Southeastern:

Zotero-Citation Management

It is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources.

Zotero works with Microsoft Word to create your bibliography for you.

Zotero, Turabian, & Word in 3 Minutes

Turabian Documents

Cover Art

How to Cite Music Sources

The Western Libraries of the University of Western Ontario have provided an excellent guide for citing music sources in essays and bibliographies.

Citing Music Sources 

Citing Government Sources

Need more help?

Circulation

circ@seu.edu
863.667.5059

Reference

863.667.5089

Visit our Library Faculty & Staff Contact page

Style and Form Manual For Graduate Thesis and Project Preparation at Southeastern University

Graduate Thesis Style Guide

SEU Definition of Plagiarism

Plagiarism occurs when a writer uses someone else’s language, ideas, or other original material without acknowledg­ing its source. Plagiarism includes unattributed use of any source, in any medium, published or unpublished. Work already submitted for a grade in another course may not be resubmitted unless the professor specifically states otherwise.

Examples of Plagiarism

  • Quoting or paraphrasing material without attributing it to its source
  • Copying segments from the work of others without giving proper credit
  • Submitting as original work written entirely by someone else

Plagiarism Video

Tips to Avoid Plagiarism

Some easy steps you can take to make sure you aren't plagiarizing:

  1. When in doubt, cite!
  2. Ask a peer or the Writing Center to proof your paper.
  3. Make sure you are familiar with the citation style for your class.
  4. Don't copy or paraphrase, hide the original and use your own words.
  5. Remember, at SEU, plagiarism is a serious offense. See the Academic Integrity Policy below.

Find Books at Libraries Worldwide

WorldCat catalog allows you to search libraries worldwide. Submit an InterLibrary Loan request for any books you find that are not in the Steelman catalog.

Interlibrary Loan

When you can't access an article or book, remember to request it from ILL at no cost.

Click this icon in a database, or use the Request Library Materials link below.

Request Library Materials Form
Request (books, chapters, journal articles)
Contact ILL at ill@seu.edu

  • You can request books and articles not available at SEU or other local libraries through Interlibrary Loan.
  • Articles will be emailed to you whenever possible.
  • Books must be picked up from the Steelman Library.
  • Use links from resources to make requests, or use the Interlibrary Loan Request Form.