 Hello and welcome to the video tour of Shoreline's Library homepage. Find the library's website at shoreline.edu under Campus Life Library Technology Center. You can navigate through the menu of the library page using the horizontal row of buttons with menu choices for each heading. The databases in the library are found under Research and then Databases. The databases are organized by topic. For this example, let's click Health and Medicine. Both of these databases contain articles that will help you research this specific topic, Health and Medicine. Neither is better or worse, and you will find that they have content that overlaps each database containing articles that the others might not. If you are looking for an A through Z list of every database the library has, click the last box and you will jump to that list. Did you know there's a quick way to search almost all the academic databases in the library at once? It's called OneSearch and it's on the library homepage. Enter your search term and choose Books, Articles, and More in the pull-down options to the right of the box. For academic articles, you may wish to narrow your options using the left sidebar. OneSearch is also the best way to look for books in the library. From the results page, click Held by Library under the Availability filter in the left sidebar to see physical items in the library. Once you've clicked Held by Library, you can add books under the resource type to the filter. And now we are looking at books that are on the shelves here at the library. Want to learn more about how to use OneSearch? We have some great videos that will make you an expert in no time. Some databases show up differently in OneSearch. Talk to a librarian to find out if your topic should be researched with a specific database instead of OneSearch. Next on our tour is Online Encyclopedias. A great way to define a topic or get background information for your research. Find it under Research and then Encyclopedias. This page shows a list of our online encyclopedias with some reference materials like the Oxford English Dictionary and a sample of the printed encyclopedia books available for library use only. Under Gale Virtual Reference Library, there's a tutorial that shows you some advanced techniques for using this resource. Let's take a look at the books page. This page will allow you to access e-books that you can read from any computer with your shoreline username and password. All resources on the library website with a key icon can only be accessed with a username and password from off campus. If you aren't sure what your username and password is, click on the key icon for more information about that, but also feel free to ask a librarian to help. Databases with the building icon can only be accessed from computers on campus only. Lastly, these resources without the icons can be accessed without any login from any computer. Still not finding what you need? You can use your shoreline ID card to check out books at the nearby colleges listed on this page. Once you've done your research, you will need to cite your sources. Citations are one of the most commonly asked questions in the library, so we have tools and guides that will help. Lastly, this is the Ask a Librarian service. Remember that we are here to help you to get help from a librarian, call us, email us, or stop by the reference desk. If you are at home and need help when we're closed, use the chat button to chat with librarians who are available 24-7 to help with your research needs. We hope to see you soon!