University of Southern Indiana
College of Nursing and Health Professions
Educating health professionals for the 21st century.
Library Resources
USI
Rice Library’s Special Tips for Distance Education / Off-Campus Students
This document includes six separate tips which will be worth knowing about
if you are a distance
education student attempting to do university-level study and library research
at the University of
Southern Indiana.
Looking for full-text articles?
In most of the library subscription databases, you can limit your search to
full-text articles, articles that you can print off the computer. If you need
just one article, limiting your search to full-text might be a good strategy.
USI Rice Library Subject Help Guides (General)
USI Rice
Library Subject Help Guides (Specific)
Quick-Start Guides and various tutorials.
USI Rice Library Recommended Web Sites
A Google Co-op is a custom search engine (CSE) made up of recommended web
sites. The co-ops listed on this page have been created to serve the research
needs of USI students. Web Sites are added regularly by participating USI
librarians and faculty. If you are a faculty member and would like to help
populate any of these custom search engines for student use, please email
smetcalf@usi.edu. If you are a USI student
and would like to recommend a particular web site that you have found useful
for college-level research, feel free to email the address above. Most content
consists of Meta-sites.
USI Rice Library Online Databases
Consists of databases used by the College of Nursing and Health Professions.
Rice Library Homepage
The homepage for the David L. Rice Library
Online Tutorials
Tutorials to help you maximize the power of the online resources at the David
L. Rice Library.
How-to-cite
Need to write a paper in APA, MLA, etc. formats? Here's how!
Graduate Student Groups
Specialized assistance for graduate student needs.
Distance Education and Off-Campus Users Group or Distance Learning Services
The mission of Rice Library's Distance Learning Services is to provide resources
and services to students and faculty involved in the University's distance
education and off-campus courses and programs.
How do I . . . ?
Answers to general FAQ's, Sources, Services and Facilities, etc.
Interlibrary Loan
Everything you need to know about the Interlibrary Loan process at the David
L. Rice Library.
Using Journal Finder
Journal Finder allows you to enter a title of a journal to see if the Rice
Library has full-text access to that journal or if the library subscribes
to the print edition of that same journal. Use
Journal Finder to search for a Journal Title (example: Journal of Mass Media
Ethics), to see if the journal is available in full-text in one or more of
the library's 60+ databases. Do not use Journal Finder to search for articles.
For articles click here.