Help from Librarian, Lane Glisson

Hello All,

After our informative and helpful session last Saturday, librarian Lane Glisson has offered the following information to help you with your Documented Paper and any other research projects you have:

Students can email Professor Lane Glisson to set up a research appointment via Zoom, or simply to ask questions via email:   

lglisson@bmcc.cuny.edu

Login for Library databases from off-campus is the barcode number on the back of your BMCC ID cardunder the barcode. 

If your login doesn’t work, fill out this form to have it activated by our staff:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1IDOzRt89YHW7207NtuDgJ_hGHznvE7HS5cqU5kCawTE/viewform?edit_requested=true

Article databases for journalism magazines and scholarly journals that we used in class are in either Academic Search Complete and Academic OneFile

The reference book database is Gale Virtual Reference Library.

All of these databases can be found in alphabetical order on the A-Z Database page:

https://bmcc.libguides.com/az.php

Good newspaper articles can be found at the New York TimesThe Washington Post, or the Guardian newspapers on the free web or in our databases. 

Newspaper databases, including Nexis Uni, General OneFileNew York State Newspapers, and the New York Times Historical databases are accessed here:

http://bmcc.libguides.com/az.php?t=39408

The E-book databases, Ebook Central and SpringerLink that I recommended can be accessed here:

https://bmcc.libguides.com/az.php?t=35955

Link to set up the The New York Times free subscription (Students must put in their BMCC emails as usernames):

https://myaccount.nytimes.com/verification/edupass

Link to set up the Wall Street Journal free subscription (Students must put in their BMCC emails as usernames):

https://partner.wsj.com/register

VIDEO LINKS to the following Library Tutorial Videos:

MLA Style 8th Edition video (6 minutes):

Link to theKnightCite citation tool for generating correct citations–Make sure to set the top left button for MLA Style:

https://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/

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