Training & Help

• Training Handouts, Guides, and Tutorials for various databases.
   
• Liaison Librarians can provide help with search techniques for databases in their subject areas.

Make a Suggestion about JMU Databases & Resources
 

• Off-Campus Access to JMU Databases & Resources
   
• Selection and Evaluation of JMU Databases & Resources: How we decide what to buy.
   
• VIVA Collection Development Principles and Selection Criteria: VIVA is our statewide consortium of libraries that purchases many of our databases.
   
• Request an Electronic Resource for Purchase

Reports and Statistics

• Which products are standards-compliant?
  • with LinkFinderPlus, which links databases to full text at JMU Libraries
  • with RefWorks, our bibliographic citation manager
  • with COUNTER, a statistics standards organization.

What are "Databases and Resources?"

As the nature of scholarly publishing changes, JMU Libraries' online collections now include audio, video, images, full-text, web sites, software, teaching tools, and more!  While we once described our non-journal collections as "databases," that term alone no longer adequately describes all our online resources.

Within "Databases and Resources," we include every bibliographic or full-text resource that is licensed by the library or through VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia.   At the discretion of library liaisons, we also include freely available web sites; instructional handouts; relevant software; teaching tools; and any other resource deemed worthy by the liaison for supporting academic work.

Any questions?  Please email Jody Condit Fagan at  faganjc@jmu.edu