Resources for PaGE Students

Basic Library Resources

Welcome to Mount Holyoke and LITS!

LITS/Library website
A good place to start for finding and accessing all the services and research resource LITS.
LITS = Library, Information, & Technology Services

Key Research Databases and Library Services:

Discover
Discover is a huge, interdisciplinary tool combines many research databases together into one global search. It includes the catalog of all items in our library in addition to multiple article databases including PsycInfo, ERIC and others mentioned below. It's great for exploring a topic or for casting a wide net to find a very obscure item.
Course Reserves for Course Required Books
The library will place a copy of each required book that has been listed in the course catalog by your instructor on reserve in the library for short-term loan. The copy may be a print book available at the Circulation Desk for a 3 hour check out or an ebook available online. Articles that your faculty have requested be digitized for your use will be available in your course Moodle site
Borrowing Books from the library
Interlibrary Loan
Books and articles that are not available in the Five college libraries may be requested via interlibrary loan at no cost to you.
Research Services
Research Services is a team of librarians who are glad to meet with you to help you with your research needs. Email us at researchservices-g@mtholyoke.edu or schedule an appointment https://mtholyoke.libcal.com/appointments/researchservices.
Learn more about Research Resources at MHC
Short self-paced tutorials for learning about our library resources.

Discover This link opens in a new window
A combined database made up of many individual resources including the library catalog and the majority of our subject-specific databases.
Search the library catalog only (enter search terms and then limit) or dozens of databases together. A great place to start your research on almost any topic.

ERIC/Education Resources Information Center This link opens in a new window
ERIC is an online library of education research and information, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. Content includes journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, dissertations and theses, and books dating back to 1966.
Education Research Complete This link opens in a new window
Database with focus on education research.
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text (PDFs) for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. Backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
The American Psychological Association’s resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, contains records and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s. Journal coverage, which spans from the 1800s to the present, includes international material selected from periodicals in dozens of languages.