Library Services for Online Students
FOR OUR ONLINE STUDENTS:
Students in online classes at McMurry have access to the library’s resources through the library’s website, email, phone conversations, and an online chat service.
Contact Us
Main #: 325-793-4692
Reference# 325-793-4683
Email: mcmurry.library@mcm.edu
How we can help:
- Guided research assistance by phone, email, or chat.
- Access to databases, electronic journals and eBooks, 24/7, through the library website using your email username and password.
- Access to the online catalog 24/7.
- If you need print material, you can request a book on interlibrary loan through your local library or arrange with McMurry’s Reference Librarian.
- If using eBooks available for McMurry patrons found in the online catalog, you will log in using your McMurry email username and password.
- You can search for Articles, eBooks and Journals in Multi-Search or our individual databases. Log in using your McMurry email username and password.
- Multi-Search is a platform to search our online Catalog, most of our databases and more eBooks, ejournals and other resources.
- Search specific databases by clicking on the DATABASES tab. You will find links to all of our individual databases organized by alphabet or subject and tutorials.
- Chat – select the button on the website and connect with our online reference chat service. (This is available 24/7.) We collaborate with 20 other libraries to bring you this service.
- Interlibrary loans:
- You can request Inter-Library Loan’s (ILL’s) through your local library or through McMurry using WorldCat or Multi-Search to make requests. Contact our reference librarian, for assistance.
- TexShare Cards
- If you are located in Texas, you may request a TexShare card. This card allows you to check out two books at a time from your local participating University Libraries.
How do I Search…?
- Multi-Search uses the EBSCO Discovery Service to search for books and articles in the databases, ebooks, library catalog and ejournals through a single portal.
- EJournals uses the Full Text Finder to search for journals in the library’s collection whether print or in databases.
Tutorials for individual databases (Individual databases are found under Databases tab)
- Academic Search Complete– Full text, scholarly, multi-disciplinary database covering areas of academic study.
- Business Source Complete– Full text articles from journals and major reference works in all disciplines of business including marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics.
- Credo Reference
- E-books from EBSCO– a growing collection of E-books on multiple topics
- Federal Register– is the daily newspaper published every business day by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). It contains government agency rules, proposed rules, and public notices.
- HeinOnline– source of legal information. It provides access to a large number of law libraries.
- Legal Collection– Indexes respected, scholarly peer-reviewed law publications; includes journals, documents, and case studies. Provides information on topics such as criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, medical, labor & human resource law, ethics, and the environment. (EBSCO)
- LexisNexis– Over 6,000 news, business, and legal sources.
- Masterfile– Coverage includes business, health, education, general science, and multi-cultural issues; dates back to 1975. Contains full text for general reference magazines and publications, reference works, primary source documents, photos, maps and images.
- MyJSTOR— Archive of scholarly content in the disciplines of the arts, sciences, humanities, business, mathematics.
- WorldCat–OCLC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide. Students can use the WorldCat ILL link for interlibrary loan requests
Contact Us
Main #: 325-793-4692
Reference# 325-793-4683
Email: mcmurry.library@mcm.edu
We are here to help!