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Welcome to the Research Help page. This information is intended to help you get started. You may wish to contact a Reference Librarian by calling the Reference Desk at (757) 727-5379 or by emailing us at ereference@hamptonu.edu
- Finding Books
Use our Online Catalog (HUWebCat), to find books in HU libraries. We also have over 20,000 netLibrary electronic books included in HUWebCat. Use the FirstSearch database WORLDCAT to search for and borrow books that are not available at HU. You can access WORLDCAT at our Research page. Please note that you will need to set up an ILLiad account in order to borrow books through the library's Interlibrary Loan service.
- Finding Articles
To find articles on a specific topic, search one of the Libraries' databases (electronic indexes) for citations and/or full-text articles. The database that you search depends upon your topic. For a complete listing organized alphabetically or by subject go to our Research page and select Databases. If you don't know where to begin, try one of the multi-subject databases, such as Academic Search Elite or Expanded Academic ASAP, which provide fulltext journal articles on a broad variety of subjects.
- Getting articles in print form and on online
It is important that you know that the library provides both hardcopy print access to certain journal titles as well as fulltext access via the databases. If you know the name of the journal you want, you may check our Ejournal Finder to see if it is available online, which you can access from our Research page. If you are unable to find fulltext access to a journal title online, be sure to check our periodical holdings in HUWebCat or ask a periodicals staff member for assistance on the 2nd floor of the library. If you are unable to locate the journal title in either location, please either come to the Reference Desk for assistance or place an Interlibrary Loan Request
- You can access databases and full-text articles
from home
Click here to learn how you can access Harvey Library databases from home: Remote Database Access
- You can schedule a Research Consultation
Click on: Library Instruction for more information.
Updated PB 01/16/2008