Accessing SUNY Broome Library's E-Resources
When remotely accessing the Library's e-resources, you will get a SUNY Broome dialog box asking for your SUNY Broome (mycollege) username and password.
Link to Library's Website
More Databases
Searching Primo (Library's Discovery Tool)
Search Primo, found on the Library's home page. (searches most of the Library's databases at once)
- How to Find an Article (includes directions for interlibrary loan, in case we don't have the article you want)
- How to Find a Book (includes directions for interlibrary loan, in case we don't have the book you want)
Searching Primo
The following example uses the "Advanced Search."
- access Primo from the Library's home page
- go to the "Advanced Search" (see red arrow below)
- search for: "Almost Everything"
- then one option to try is a "subject" search
- in the first search line change "Any field" to "Subject" - drop-down menu - (see red oval below)
- note: in a "Subject" search you can search by the title of the work. You can also search by the name of the author; this person will then be the subject (not author) in the results.
- If the subject search does not retrieve results for your selected author try an "Any field" search.
- If the subject search does not retrieve results searching for a work, try an "Any Field" search. Use quotes around the title of it; the title has to be exact for this to work.
- to narrow the focus of your search, in the second search box try "Any field" searches with other terms/phrases, for example:
- interpretation, critic*, analysis, review, biograph*, "character study"
- search example:
- interpretation OR analysis OR critic*
- capitalize OR to broaden the search
- * use the asterisk to get various endings of the term
- try quotes around phrases
- interpretation OR analysis OR critic*
search example:
Subject contains frankenstein
AND Any field contains interpretation OR analysis OR critic*
- refine your search, e.g., available online, publication dates, peer-reviewed (if needed), resource type
- limits are on left side of the results page
- refining your search by subject(s) can help (left side - results page)
- open up "Show More" to see the subject list
- selecting one or two, at a time, sometimes works best
- example of set Active Filters:
- to remove a filter click on the "X"
- you can also reset all the filters
- selecting and accessing an eBook or article from your search results
- select ebook or article by clicking on the blue title
- on the following details record:
- see publication information
- see DETAILS for more information about the item
- under "View Online," select a database to access the article (or eBook)
- follow links to access the item
- selecting a print book from your search results
- select book by clicking on the blue title
- print book record
- see DETAILS for more information about the item
- check if it is available
- note the call # to locate the book
- note citation tool
