Instructions for using Schaffer library's electronic resources

Therese McCarty

With one exception, the articles we will read in this course are available on-line through on-line journal collections to which the library subscribes. Because these collections are available by subscription only, you must be on a computer that is connected to Union's network in order to use them. The two collections that we will use most often are EBSCOhost and Proquest. You can access these through Schaffer Library's electronic resources page.

Instructions for EBSCOhost:

• Click on the EBSCOhost logo.

• Login to EBSCOhost (the login button is a blue button near the top of the screen)
• Enter EBSCOhost
• In the "FIND" window, type the journal and author name, for example, National Tax Journal and Kane Click on "full page image" just under the name of the article.
• You will then see a window that gives you the option of choosing to open the file or save it to disk.; You can do whichever is more convenient for you.; Opening the file means that you will be able to read it on the screen. Saving it to disk means you can take it with you and read it on any computer that has Adobe Acrobat.
• If you selected "Open the file," Adobe Acrobat will automatically open and show you the article.; It will be easier to read if you click on the magnifying glass at the bottom left corner of the screen and choose magnification of 150% or 200%. You can print the article on your own printer or in the library for 10 cents a page.; If you don't know how to print in the library, a reference librarian can show you how.; If you are comfortable reading the articles on the screen, it is not necessary to
  print them.; Unfortunately, the print quality from full page image is not great.

Instructions for Proquest Direct

• After you click on the Proquest logo, select New search for publication and enter the journal name.

• Then click on the journal name and then on the particular issue (e.g. Sept. 1998). Then click on the article.

• In Proquest you have two options for the way you view the article, "text and graphics," which it automatically gives you, or "page image," which you can select on the left hand side of the screen. "Text and graphics" has much better print quality, but you have to expand each table individually to be able to read it, which is a bother. As with EBSCOhost, you can use the magnifying glass to make the article more legible on the screen.

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