FAQs--Quick List of Questions

Overview and explanation of Library webpage. Basic orientation to resources and services.

Find a print book at the Bradenton or Venice Campus Libraries.

Find and use eBooks at the State College of Florida Libraries.

How to use Overdrive to locate, hold and check out popular fiction and non-fiction eBooks.

Find scholarly or peer reviewed articles in the SCF Libraries databases and even Google Scholar.

Have you hit the pay wall? If you click on full text and get a demand for money, you've hit the paywall. Search SCF LIbraries' resources to find what is available to you free.

Get past the pay wall and use a higher level of search - citation searching. Click on the results listed SCF FULL TEXT on the right to find full text scholarly articles.

The Library does not buy textbooks, however, some Faculty donate textbooks to be used in the Library only. They cannot be checked out and removed from the Library.

FAQs : How to find Speeches in Vital Speeches of the Day using Academic Search Complete

List of Equipment : All the equipment for loan at SCF Libraries, Laptops, Tablets/Readers.
Includes loan of iPads, Kindles, etc. Calculators
Cameras, Digital and video-cameras for loan at SCF Libraries and Mobile Accessories
Includes headphones, remote controls, mice, etc.

How to set up account and filters for PubMed.

CRAAP Test, What Why Who Where How, CARRDS and more. Video, Prezi and other multimedia. Downloadable PowerPoint.

This provides criteria for scholarly, popular and trade articles comparison. Find out why one article may be more credible than another.

Guide to summarizing, quoting and paraphrasing to avoid plagiarism. Video and Checklist.

Links to top questions about MLA citation.

Examples, guides and links to key APA citation formats.

How to cite images in APA, captions and related.

Need to cite or caption an image using MLA? This guide will help.

This tells you how to get Library Holds removed or lifted from your account.

Is the website not working? Need a direct link to a database? This is a list to help out. But please also let us know there's a problem.

FAQs : Wifi: How to Connect to Wifi

Una guía en español sobre cómo usar los recursos de la Biblioteca de SCF

Renew your books online or at the library.

Request books or other library materials from another SCF campus or one of the 28 College libraries

Want to request that the SCF Libraries add books,magazine, DVDs, technology, devices, computers or other items to the collection? Just ask.

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