OTHA 1305 (Principles of Occupational Therapy) - Prof. C. Henry

Your Library Account

When first accessing the library's main search tool from the library homepage, be sure to login to your personal library account. This allows you to save articles to a folder for later use.

The video below will teach you the basics of using the MCC Library's search engine (which is located on the library's homepage). It incudes information on:

• search basics
• signing in
• the item-preview page
• accessing items
• accessing more information about an item
• narrowing your search results
  • Hint: You will need to limit your results to peer-reviewed articles
  • Hint: You will need to limit your results by age (no more than 5 years old, but preferably no more than 3 years old)

The video below will teach you to use the cite, share, and save button's on the item-preview screen.

The video below will teach you to find more information about a search result by accessing its record page.

Ebooks and Databases for Background and Reference Information

You can customize Google Scholar to link to full text articles from MCC Library collections....

1. Go to https://scholar.google.com/
2. Click the horizontal lines in the left corner next to the Google Scholar logo (Chrome browser) or next to My profile.
3. Click Settings and then Library links
4. Type MCC Library and hit enter
5. Deselect any other libraries and check the box next to McLennan Community College Library - Full-Text @ MCC Library
6. Click Save
7. Enter your article search

Click the Full-Text @ MCC Library beside the article to access it.  For search results where there is no link for the MCC Library, you may get some free full text from the publisher or be asked to purchase the article.