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The missing link: sharing library permalinks with your classes

Your guide to getting it right!

The library has a multitude of online content you can add to your class without having to worry about copyright or other restrictions. We have a little bit of everything including journal articles, ebooks and streaming videos from a variety of disciplines. It is all free for you to use in your class.

Linking to some of our resources can be confusing though. Licensing, authentication and DRM make linking to library material harder than bookmarking a web site. Many of our databases create temporary urls that only exist during the search session. Grabbing the link will take others to an error message.

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Refworks Enables You to Share Your Knowlege With the Team

Keep your research collaborations easy using Proquest Refworks shareable folders. Pick your partners and share a folder to let them see your contributions to the project or allow them to add items of their own to quickly build a comprehensive knowledge base.

Don’t forget the additional benefit of being able to easily create a works cited page in just about any style from the information you have gathered.

Below are brief instructions for sharing and adjusting folder permissions for D’Youville College library patrons.

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Creating a more interesting class just got easier!

Adding premium content to your Canvas course – Nice! Adding premium content while paying nothing? Awesome! Adding free premium content to your course from a simple search without ever leaving Canvas? Tremendously excellent! Use the D’Youville Library’s new Curriculum Builder tool to take advantage of all the library has to offer and forge a course full of high quality material like research articles, ebooks and video.

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The Life-Changing Magic of Instructional Videos

Are you in a research funk? Sometimes, it is hard to know where to start when beginning the research project. Likewise, the research process can easily become daunting. The D’Youville College Library wants to help make the research process straightforward and easy for you, which is why we created a new page within our website to help you find instructional video tutorials.

Who doesn’t love watching videos? Sometimes an instructional video is the easiest way to learn something new in regards to research. We have created a series of instructional videos that highlight search techniques for a variety of our library resources, including several of our most used databases. We have also designed several instructional tutorials on how to use Spartan Search to conduct research. In addition, we have curated YouTube video playlists for many of our library resources to help further assist you with all of your academic research ventures. You don’t have to figure it out on your own. We are here to help!

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Let’s Talk about Higher Education Like Your Job Depended on It!

“Yale’s Old Campus at Dusk” by Namkota is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

Are you a faculty member wondering what others are doing to create engaging courses, or are you an administrator trying to keep up with current trends at peer institutions? Find this information and more in the publication that over 350,000 academics trust for updated higher education news, analysis and opinion – the Chronicle of Higher Education.

The D’Youville Library pays for institutional access to this award winning publication saving you the $95 annual subscription fee. Keep informed on current trends and news in higher education with daily updates from the web site.

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