SJRCC Libraries

To access the databases, you must have a current SJRCC student, faculty or staff library card.
If you are not a currently registered student, faculty, or staff member you may access these databases at any campus library.

The online databases are subscribed to by SJRCC and the State of Florida. The databases provide full-text articles from magazines and journals and may also include reference book articles, pamphlets and citations to articles which you may request from other libraries.

1. Check your settings. If you have a pop-up blocker, you should turn it off or change its settings to allow pop-ups on this site and the database sites.

If you use AOL, we strongly recommend you use Internet Explorer - not the AOL browser - to access the databases.

3. You will see 4 categories of databases. General contains databases that cover most subject areas. Subject-Specific contains databases on particular topics, for example literature. Other Library Catalogs provide access to public library and university catalogs (check these after you search LINCC). K-12 resources are databases intended for students in grade school through high school.

4. Click the name of the database to connect to the resource.
The SJRCC Librarians suggest the following starting points:

+ Begin with Academic Search Complete, Omnifile Full Text Mega, Readers' Guide Full Text and/or Expanded Academic ASAP. These databases are listed in the General category.

+ Also be sure to check out some of the Subject-Specific databases. There are databases for education, science, business, computers, social sciences and humanities.
For example:

+ For education, use Education Full Text, Education Research Complete and Academic Search Complete. Remember to limit your results to Full Text and Peer Reviewed (for scholarly articles).

+ For humanities, use Art Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Academic Search Complete, and JSTOR. Remember to limit your results to Full Text and Peer Reviewed (for scholarly articles).

+ For literary criticism, use Literature Resource Center, Magill OnLine Literature Plus, and Essay & General Literature Index Full Text.

+ For medical information, use MedLine with Full Text , CINAHL, Health Source, and Health & Wellness Resource Center.

5. Get the article.
If the complete article does not appear below the citation when you click the title from the results list, you may need to go one more step. This varies by database:

If you are using an Ebsco database, you may be provided with links to 2 formats of the complete article: "HTML Full Text" provides a web page version of the complete article (easy to print)."PDF Full Text" provides a scanned image of the article. This requires the free Adobe Acrobat reader and takes a little longer to print but sometimes is the only format provided.

If you are using a Wilson database, click to get the full text in HTML (web) format or to view the PDF (scanned) image. The PDF version requires the free Adobe Acrobat reader and takes a little longer to print but sometimes is the only format provided.

If you find an article but the full text is not provided in HTML or PDF, click to see if the full text of the article is available online through another database. If so, it will provide you a link to the full article in a different database.