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Hedberg Library Hours

Library Hours

Complete Library Hours

Spring 2025 Hours (Begins Wed, Feb. 5)

Monday: 7:30 am-12:00 am
Tuesday: 7:30 am-12:00 am
Wednesday: 7:30 am-12:00 am
Thursday: 7:30 am-12:00 am
Friday: 7:30 am-5:00 pm
Saturday: 9:00 am-5:00 pm
Sunday: 12:00 pm-12:00 am

Last Week of Classes/Commencement (May 14 - May 26)

Wed, May 14: 7:30 am-1:00 am
Thu, May 15: 7:30 am-1:00 am
Fri, May 16: 7:30 am-10:00 pm
Sat, May 17: 9:00 am-10:00 pm
Sun, May 18: 12:00 pm-1:00 am
Mon, May 19: 7:30 am-1:00 am
Tue, May 20: 7:30 am-1:00 am
Wed, May 21: 7:30 am-6:00 pm
Thu, May 22: 8:00 am-5:00 pm
Fri, May 23: 8:00 am-5:00 pm

Hedberg Library will be closed for construction Saturday, May 24 - Monday, June 30. We will reopen on July 1.

General Databases

Academic Onefile
Searches many peer reviewed full text journal articles in multiple disciplines.

Academic Search Complete
Indexes and abstracts over 18,000 journals in science and technology, psychology, religion and philosophy, etc. Over 4,800 journals are peer-reviewed and full text.

Library Catalog - Find books, journal articles, videos, and more

Library Catalog

Find books, journal articles, videos, and more.

Subject Journal Databases

AGRICOLA (Agricultural Online Access)
A database created by the National Agricultural Library (NAL Catalog) with access to agricultural information.
American Chemical Society Publications
Publisher of the most-cited, peer-reviewed journals in the chemical and related sciences. Provides access to over 40 peer-reviewed journals. From the ACS Publication page, click on the "ACS Journals" tab. Then click on any of the listed titles to enter that journal's web site.
arXiv
Open access to 1,277,815 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics
Environmental Protection Agency Library
The EPA National Library Network provides information resources and services to EPA staff and the public to support the mission of the EPA.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature using a Google search interface.

* Please consult this link to set up Google Scholar with the Carthage College catalog: http://tinyurl.com/pxtrwbl.

* If you find an item in Google Scholar that is not full-text, please check Hedberg Library's catalog to see if we own it or can obtain it via interlibrary loan.
GreenFILE
Bibliographic database of multidisciplinary information about environmental concerns, such as global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling and more. Over 700 titles are available.
Ingentaconnect
Indexes 4.5 million articles from 13,500 periodicals in the physical and applied sciences, humanities, and social sciences. There is no full text.
JoVE
JoVE is the world-leading producer and provider of science videos with the mission to improve scientific research and education. Millions of scientists, educators and students at thousands of universities, colleges, hospitals and biopharmaceutical companies worldwide use JoVE for their research, teaching and learning.
See this webpage for information on accessing and using JoVE in Schoology: https://carthage.libanswers.com/faq/349846
JSTOR
A digital library providing access to books, primary sources, and archival and current issues of over 2,000 scholarly journals across from over 50 academic disciplines. View this tutorial:
Lancet
The Lancet is an independent, international weekly general medical journal founded in 1823 by Thomas Wakley. Since its first issue (October 5, 1823), the journal has strived to make science widely available so that medicine can serve, and transform society, and positively impact the lives of people. The Lancet is committed to applying scientific knowledge to improve health and advance human progress.
PeerJ
PeerJ is an open access publisher of Biology, Medicine, and Computer Science peer reviewed journals.
PLOS
PLOS is a publisher of a number of peer reviewed, open access journals in the sciences.
PubMed
An integrated, text-based search and retrieval system used at NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) for the major databases, including PubMed, Nucleotide and Protein Sequences, Protein Structures, Complete Genomes, Taxonomy, and others.
SciFinder-n (registration page)
To access SciFinder-n, you must create an account while on campus. Click this link to create your own login. SciFinder-n will then send you an email with a link which you must click on in order to complete your registration. Once your registration is complete, click on the SciFinder-n link on our "All Electronic Resources" page below to access the site.
Web of Science
Web of Science provides access to the world's leading citation databases. Authoritative, multidisciplinary content covers over 10,000 journals worldwide, including Open Access journals and over 110,000 conference proceedings.

Research Tools

Electronic Resources

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Full Text Finder

Full Text Finder is not an article database, it is a portal to journal availability within the library database and serials collections.