Faculty
Catalogs and Databases
The principal resources, online library catalogs and electronic journal databases, are made available through the library’s home page, located at http://library.drury.edu.
The SWAN (Southwest Academic Network) online catalog includes Drury’s catalog plus those of Missouri State University, Southwest Baptist University, Ozarks Technical Community College, Missouri Southern State College, Cottey College, Crowder College, Baptist Bible College and Assemblies of God Theological Seminary.
The MOBIUS online catalog includes the libraries mentioned above, as well as the online catalogs of 58 academic and public libraries. Together, these Missouri libraries represent around 17 million titles of books, journals, magazines, newspapers, and audiovisual materials.
Also available on the Catalogs page of the library’s website are the Springfield-Greene County Library, Evangel University, and libraries throughout the United States and the world through LIBDEX.
The alphabetically arranged Databases page offers access to around seventy electronic databases and search engines: The principal databases are these:
- Academic Search Premier, an EBSCOhost database that includes full text articles from more than 4400 journals in the humanities, social sciences, business, education, computer information systems, and general sciences, and article citations from over 8200 titles.
- ACS Web Editions, an American Chemical Society database of full text articles from more than 30 chemical journals.
- ARTstor, A non-commercial, educational collection of more than 300,000 digital images and associated cataloging data designed for teaching and research in art history, the humanities, and other disciplines. The collection will expand to 500,000 images.
- Art Full Text, A Wilson database that indexes more than 450 journals and magazines in the field of art going back to 1983; includes full text from around 120 titles going back to 1996; indexes 174 peer reviewed titles.
- Business Source Premier, an EBSCOhost database that provides full text for more than 8,300 business sources, including more than 1,100 scholarly business publications covering all areas of business; includes country economic reports and profiles for more than 10,000 of the world’s largest companies.
- CountryWatch, a news source and database that continuously updates political and economic information on the world’s 191 countries combined with an archive of full text new reports plus many other features.
- Education Full Text, A Wilson database that indexes more than 450 journals in the field of education going back to 1983; includes full text from more than 200 titles going back to 1996.
- FirstSearch databases that cover a wide variety of subject areas. There are around 30 FirstSearch databases, including PsycINFO, ERIC, Dissertation Abstracts, BasicBIOSIS, and others.
- JSTOR, providing full text access to complete runs of more than 670 journals.
- Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe, providing full text access to news, legal and business resources.
- MEDLINE, The National Library of Medicine’s premier bibliographic database containing over 11 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine.
- PsycARTICLES, providing access to the full-text of 57 journals available through the American Psychological Association; includes searching and browsing capabilities.
- Other citation and full text databases that access literature and data in a variety of subject areas.
Requesting Materials
Books
Drury books, as well as books found in other libraries in SWAN and MOBIUS can be ordered online. Once you find the book record in the catalog, click on the Request or Request This Item link on book’s page and follow the directions on subsequent pages to complete the order. You will need to know and enter the number on your Drury identification card when ordering. You may also enter the necessary information on the Interlibrary Loan (ILL) form (http://library.drury.edu/Services/ill.htm). If you need books that are not in our library, in SWAN or MOBIUS, you may also use the Interlibrary Loan form for those. Finally, you may contact Katherine Bohnenkamper at kbohnenk@drury.edu, or by phone at 1-417-873-7485. There is no charge for loaned books. Drury, SWAN, and MOBIUS books are checked out for three weeks. All other books are checked out for four weeks. Books are shipped with a return label, and should be returned by mail using that label. Overdue fines will be applied regardless of which library loaned the book.
Articles
You may discover that most or all of the articles needed for your research may be found on one of the full-text databases. However, magazine or journal articles not in those databases can be ordered using the Interlibrary Loan (ILL) form (http://library.drury.edu/Services/ill.htm). Most articles ordered are available at no cost to you. However, there are exceptions when a cost is applied to the order.
Videocassettes/DVDs
The library’s home page includes listings of videocassettes and DVDs owned by the library, under Videos/DVDs: (http://library.drury.edu/Resources/video_lists.htm). Videocassettes and DVDs may be checked out for two weeks. Order these via the Interlibrary Loan (ILL) form. These are mailed directly to you, with a return label, at no charge. However, overdue fines will be applied for late-returned videocassettes or DVDs.
For general assistance in research, finding articles or other information sources, or with any aspect of service to off campus students or faculty, contact Craig Smith at csmith@drury.edu or by phone at 1-417-873-7339.
The Reference Desk is staffed during the academic year (generally, mid-August to early May) and you may call their phone at 1-417-873-7337 for help.
Electronic Reserves & Faculty Course Pages through ERes at Drury University
ERes is product of Sirsi/Docutek, a company that provides electronic services to libraries, and stands for Electronic Reserves. ERes software allows instructors to set up an electronic course page that could contain the materials that they might normally present in a printed format, such as a syllabus, course assignments, journal articles, book chapters, and a wide variety of digital presentation formats such as Adobe Acrobat, PowerPoint, word-processed files, Excel spread sheets, digital audio and video clips, and virtually any other type of file. Course pages may include a bulletin board capability. Instructors who wish to set up an ERes account and a course page should contact Craig Smith at csmith@drury.edu or by phone at 1-417-873-7339, or Barbi Dickensheet at bdickensheet@drury.edu or by phone at 1-417-873-7882.
Reserves
Faculty who have not created their own course pages through ERes have two options in placing materials on reserve:
- They may ask the library to create copies of copyrighted and/or other materials to be placed on paper reserves. In this case, their students will access the materials at the library’s Circulation Desk during the library’s hours of operation, check out the materials, and either read them in the library or photocopy them. Complete books must be placed on paper reserves, or placed on an ERes course page if copyright permissions have been given.
- They may request that the library set up reserve materials for them electronically on a web page for them for convenient 24/7 access by their students. In the case, the course page will be created using the ERes software and provide the instructor with everything he or she needs, including a course page password to give to students. Students may access the materials from a computer at any time and either read or print it. Library staff will inform faculty if their reserve requests may violate the fair use provisions of the Copyright Act of 1976.
Faculty who have obtained an ERes account from the library may create their own course page and may also ask the library to add copyrighted materials to the page, creating a single point of reference for all class materials. As a reminder, complete books must either be placed on paper reserve or have been granted copyright permission to be placed on an ERes course page.
To obtain an ERes account, call Barbi Dickensheet, Assistant Circulation Manager, at 1-417-873-7486 or Craig Smith, Head of Public Services, at 1-417-873-7339.
Overview: Library Home Page (http://library.drury.edu)
Access
Open the library’s home page by clicking on the Library link on Drury’s website or go to http://library.drury.edu/
Useful Links
There are several links on the library’s website that are intended to help the user find and use information. The links below are those that I think are most useful:
Under the Resources heading:
Catalogs (the use of online library catalogs is described beneath the Catalogs and Databases heading).
Databases (Some useful databases are described beneath the Catalogs and Databases heading).
LibGuides
These are discipline-oriented, or topic-specific pages that provide web site and database links that are important to the discipline or topic. Over thirty LibGuides have been created. As an example of the kinds of information linked to in a page, the Business LibGuide provides links to business databases, business glossaries and directories, news sources, places to get company information, trade websites, links to stock exchanges around the world, websites of business organizations and institutions, and other useful sites.
Under the Services & Info tab:
Circulation provides information about general library circulation and overdue policies.
Hours provides information about when the library is open or closed.
ILL is the page to use for the Interlibrary Loan forms.
One other useful link here is Journal Search, which allows you to type in the name of a journal and find out whether the library provides access to full text articles in that journal, magazine, or newspaper in a printed or electronic format.
