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Access materials your instructors have placed on Reserve through Fogler Library.

OneSearch is an online discovery tool through which you can search for books, some articles, and some of the other materials available through Fogler Library and URSUS libraries.

The URSUS catalog contains items from all campuses in the University of Maine system, the Maine State Library, the Maine State Law and Legislative Reference Library, and the Bangor Public Library.

Use strategies to help you look for articles in an electronic database.

Access articles within databases using the tool "Article Linker" or "360 Link to Full Text".

What is a database thesaurus and how do you use it?

Use Google Scholar through the registered Fogler Library link for more full text content.

An introductory look at library resources that may be useful to you in writing university-level research papers.

What is Peer Review, why is it important, and how can you find this research?

You want to actually read the journal article, but only have the citation; what next?

Understand the importance of giving credit to those who have original ideas.

Get a book from another URSUS library: all campuses in the University of Maine system, the Maine State Library, the Maine State Law and Legislative Reference Library, and the Bangor Public Library.

MaineCat is an online library catalog listing books from URSUS; the Maine College of Art; Bowdoin, Bates, and Colby Colleges; Maine’s community college system; the University of New England; and public libraries all across the state of Maine.

ILLiad is our Interlibrary Loan system, used to request materials you cannot access through the URSUS Catalog or MaineCat, or full text through our databases.

Once you've logged into ILLiad, how do you fill out the forms?