 The BC Libraries site, library.bc.edu, is your doorway to millions of potential sources. This video will show you the three most useful entry points on library.bc.edu and pathways to finding sources from those entry points. Here are the three entry points. One, the main search bar, which leads to books, many articles, and potentially helpful web pages. Two, the Get Help link, which leads to 24-7 chat, email a librarian, the FAQ, and phone numbers. Three, this nondescript trapdoor to research guides, which are the treasure maps to 700-plus databases and many more useful links. The main search bar is a good place to begin searching. Suppose you want to research differences in health outcomes across race and class. If you don't already know an author name or book title, just start with your research topic or some part of it. Use only a few words. The more words you use, the fewer results you'll get. First, you'll get a preview of results, including books, articles, and our website's best guesses about FAQ answers and web pages that might help. To see more books and more results, click on See All Items. You could scroll through the whole books and more results list, but that would be tedious because there's a lot here that's irrelevant. Use the limiters on the right to reduce the number of results. For example, to see only certain material types, subjects, authors, or date ranges. For more details about finding books and using these limiters, see the video Searching for Books in the Catalog. With limited access to the library, you might want to click eBooks as the material type. In fact, our systems department has just added that limiter to the main page. Just check the box to limit to eBooks. Careful though, this could eliminate 30-50% of possible results. Even if you can't access certain titles from a distance, pay attention to them. Titles can teach you the vocabulary academic fields use to talk about a topic, and you can use that language for more productive searches. Especially relevant titles might have even more useful language in the detailed description. Click on a title to expand it and note the subject terms and terms in the summary that you might use as keywords in other searches. If you find a book you'd like, log in and save it to your favorites. This way you won't lose track. It's possible our library only has a print book right now. If that's the case, ask a librarian for help locating an eBook. Many publishers are making eBooks available during this crisis, but they can be difficult to find. You can contact us via chat 24-7 or email. If an eBook is available, a link will appear here under Find Online. Don't worry about the link text, it's usually just a publisher or distributor name. Click it and you'll go to the eBook on the publisher's site. Different publishers have different interfaces. Look for links to read online or download. Download limits vary by publisher and sometimes even by eBook, so look for the download limits. You can also read by chapter headings. Or you can go back to the preview page and see all the articles. Note how many articles there are. The articles list comes from a combined search of many but not all of our databases. You'll definitely want to use the limiters to reduce the list to more relevant articles. For more targeted searches of articles, we recommend using individual databases. To learn more about that, watch the Finding Articles with Databases video. We don't expect you to know how to do all this on your own. Use the Get Help menu to contact librarians via 24-7 chat, email, or phone. You can also access chat from many library web pages from the tab on the right. Chat is staffed by BC librarians 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 9 to 5 Friday, and 11 to 7 Saturday and Sunday. At other times, a chat service provides help. Use email if you're not sure who to contact. Staff will forward your email to the expert who can answer your question. If you prefer self-help, try the FAQ for policies and tips. The Research Guides link is the almost hidden trap door to the treasure map room. Here you'll find the guides that BC librarians have created covering the subjects taught at BC. Just look for an academic subject that would provide a useful perspective on your topic, such as communication, business, English, history, philosophy, political science, psychology, sociology, theology, or many others. Click one, and you'll find links to more guides, article databases, primary source databases, and even other resources like streaming videos and tips for searching. There are also help guides on many non-subject-related topics. Here you can find more videos like this one, and help with citing sources, finding newspapers, identifying scholarly sources, or automating citation with Zotero, and again, many, many others. Always remember, librarians are here to help you. Contact us via the Get Help link for individual help with any library question. Hope to hear from you soon.