elibrary USA

WHAT IS IT AND HOW TO ACCCESS IT?

PLEASE COMPLETE THE REGISTRATION FORM AND THE COMMITMENT PLEDGE WE ARE NOW DISTRIBUTING

Your complete email will serve as your logon.e.g. kckbvtn@gmail.com

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.

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.

THIS IS WHAT eLIBRARYUSA LOOKS LIKE: ALLOWS ACCESS TO OVER 30 DIFFERENT DATABASES: NOTE TOP RIGHT WHERE YOU ENTER YOUR LOGIN AND PASSWORD

ONCE SUCCESSFULLY LOGGED IN, THIS IS WHAT YOU WILL SEE

WE WILL SHOW TWO POPULAR DATABASES: ACADEMIC ONEFILE AND eBRARY: ALWAYS USE THE ADVANCED SEARCH OPTION

HERE ARE SOME OF THE RESULTS OF THE SEARCH: 174 ARTICLES RETRIEVED

HERE IS THE COMPLETE ARTICLE, FULL TEXT: NOTE PRINT, DOWNLOAD, EMAIL OPTIONS TO THE RIGHT

ONE CAN DO A VERY ADVANCED SEARCH IN ACADEMIC OneFile, specifying a publication, example below, please

RESULTS OF THAT SEARCH

eBRARY DATABASE: FULL TEXT BOOKS, OVER 20,000 IN ENGLISH

AGAIN, PLEASE OPT FOR THE ADVANCED SEARCH FEATURE: A SEARCH ON CLIMATE CHANGE

RESULTS OF eBRARY SEARCH ON “CLIMATE CHANGE”

FULL TEXT OF BOOK RETRIEVED IN THE eBRARY DATABASE

ADDITIONAL DATABASES STUDENTS AND RESEARCHERS LOVE! THE GALE DIRECTORY LIBRARY AND THE GALE VIRTUAL REFERENCE LIBRARY

THE GALE DIRECTORY LIBRARY RETRIEVES SCHOLARSHIP INFORMATION; AGAIN, OPT FOR ADVANCED SEARCH

IN ADVANCED SEARCH, CHOOSE “SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS AND LOANS,” TYPE IN THE SUBJECT YOU WISH TO STUDY, GENDER RESTRICTIONS, IF APPLICABLE, AND THEN SEARCH

RESULTS OF THAT SEARCH

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

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.

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

NOTE THE BUSINESS PLANS HANDBOOK, CITIES OF THE U.S., AFRICAN AMERICAN ALMANAC, COLLEGE BLUE BOOK, AND 50 OTHER UNIQUE TITLES

HERE ARE JUST A FEW OF THE OTHER TITLES AVAILABLE IN THE GALE VIRTUAL REFERENCE LIBRARY

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.

ONE ADDITIONAL ITEM: A SEARCH ENGINE THAT SEARCHES JUST RESEARCH MATERIAL

SEARCHES eDISSERTATIONS, eTHESES, THINK TANK REPORTS and PUBLICATIONS on any topic, not just Climate Change.

The site is at

http://tinyurl.com/6q6vzto

SEARCHING CLIMATE CHANGE AND DEFORESTATION

RESULTS OF CUSTOM SEARCH

EXAMPLE OF A DISSERTATION RETRIEVED VIA THIS SEARCH ENGINE

ANOTHER RESULT, AN EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND DEFORESTATION, BY THE CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE (CRS)

CONTACT INFORMATION STEPHEN PERRY, IRO, U.S. EMBASSY ACCRA PerrySX2@state.gov

Rita Awuku, IRC Director, Accra AWUKURE@state.gov

Jennifer Yeboah, IRC Assistant, Accra YeboahJA@state.gov

IRC ACCRA: ircaccra@state.gov

THANKS!