Stay on Course with Library Resources
In the event you miss some class sessions as a result of the flu, you can stay on course by continuing to use the online resources available through Healey Library.
Logging in using your last name and barcode, you can access from home, while you rest, any of our 75,000 electronic journals or 50,000 electronic books; or, for direct assistance, contact a reference librarian for research suggestions to help you stay on course with your term projects and assignments.
Here are some ideas:
Ebrary - Academic Complete
Research 45,000 full-text, online books. For many assignments, papers and projects there are a few good e-books available that you can consult from the comfort of home. If you set up a free account you can use the personal bookshelf and annotation features as well.
Two smaller collections, all extremely useful, are also available on our
Library Subject Guides
Subject guides offer recommended databases, reference books, and other library resources for research, along with email and chat contact channels to consult a librarian. Also see our research guides and tutorials for general research topics.
- Email us your questions. A UMB reference librarian will respond within 24 hours (weekend& holidays within 1-3 days).
- ASK 24/7! provides 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week assistance by UMB librarians and other academic librarians on college campuses throughout the U.S.
Remarkable Full-text Journal Collections
From the comfort of home, consult millions of articles online, as they appear in our 75,000 online journal subscriptions.
Here are some ideas:
JSTOR
The gold standard for scholarly journals.
JSTOR's (Journal Storage) archives include scholarship published in over one thousand of the highest-quality academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. All full text.
Project MUSE
Project Muse provides an online collection of scholarly peer-reviewed journals in the humanities and social sciences from not-for-profit publishers. It includes journals from such fields as economics, education, history, literature, and political science.
Annual Reviews
Healey Library subscribes to the entire set of Annual Reviews. The Annual Reviews collection covers the biomedical sciences, physical sciences and the social sciences. In each volume you will find reviews of the scholarly literature for a variety of specific topics. All articles are written by experts in the field
Camio
CAMIO, short for Catalog of Art Museum Images Online, includes images of art in museums from around the world dating from prehistory to the present. This image collection includes all types of art including, but not limited to, architecture, costume and jewelry, decorative arts, drawings and water color, paintings, photographs, prints, sculpture, and textiles.
And over 100 more . . . here
Remember, we are all in this together. There is an abundance of resources and services and services to help ensure your success. So, whatever the flu season brings, stay in touch with us at Healey Library and stay the course!
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