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OhioLINK catalog combines holdings of more than 90 Ohio academic libraries. Some resources, especially local e-books are not accessible via this catalog (Use OPAL/Wilmington catalog).
Electronic Book Center contains the full texts of thousands of scholarly and reference e-books from several publishers, covering many subject areas.
Note: Downloading eBooks can be confusing for initial access, to view instructions for accessing OhioLink eBooks go here.
The OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center (EJC) is a full text searchable database of electronic journal articles from more than 11,000 academic journals from top scholarly publishers, academic societies and university presses. The EJC covers a wide range of disciplines and contains just published scientific research as well as historical journal articles. New articles are added daily.
Online theses and dissertations from Ohio graduate students - not comprehensive - selected institutions, selected authors.
The EAD Finding Aid Creation Tool and OhioLINK Repository (EAD FACTORy) will help archivists ensure broad-based access to archival collections and local history collections by providing a solution for institutions wishing to create and deliver finding aids according to the Encoded Archival Description standard. Finding aids are descriptive tools that come in a variety of formats and levels of detail that describe the contents of archival or manuscript collections. EAD is an international standard for encoding archival finding aids, making them standardized in structure as well as more predictably searchable in collaborative electronic repository environments.
The OhioLINK Music Center, a subset of the Naxos Music Library, is an online streaming music database of international works from Classical to Spoken Word. The 78,000+ tracks, 21,000+ works can be searched or browsed by track, title, performer, album, composer and date of composition. Flash player is required. Access to the music files is restricted to the students, faculty and staff of OhioLINK member institutions.
Credo is an easy-to-use tool for starting research. Gather background information on your topic from hundreds of full-text general and subject-specific reference titles, as well as 500,000+ images and audio files and over 1,000 videos.
How to Configure Google Scholar:
For best performance using Google Scholar, before you begin set your preferences to Wilmington College.
1. Access the Google Scholar webpage by going to http://scholar.google.com.
2. Click the three strips on the upper left side of webpage, and then click on "Settings" link.
3. Click on "Library Links" link, and search for Wilmington College and select Wilmington College - Check Full Text. (Also search for Worldcat and select Open WorldCat - Library Search.)
4. You should see the following and click on "Save" (bottom of page):
| Wilmington College - Check Full Text |
| Open WorldCat - Library Search |
You're ready to search Google Scholar with access to Watson Library resources!
