Employee Resources Guide: Student-Facing

Library Policy

Recommended and required textbooks submitted on textbook adoption forms are purchased or licensed by the library when possible. Textbooks can be found by using the DMU Discovery search system, or by accessing the Course Reserves page under Find Resources or Students.

Electronic Access

While Library faculty and staff work hard to obtain electronic access to required and recommended materials, there are times when this is not possible. Some major textbook publishers have chosen not to provide electronic purchasing options for libraries. We recognize that their failure to provide electronic purchasing options to libraries deprives students who cannot afford a personal digital edition of the resource. This means that for courses that have adopted textbooks by these publishers, students who do not purchase the textbook will not have an electronic access option to textbook content.

To address this issue, we will work with instructors to explore and identify viable textbook alternatives. If you are interested in exploring alternative access options, would like support with sourcing alternative course materials or if you have questions about textbook availability, please reach out to Jill Edgerton (jill.edgerton@dmu.edu).

Counterfeit Textbooks

The library wishes to make employees aware that there has been a rise of counterfeit books appearing on online vendors. These can be in two forms:

1) Books with the correct cover, but not the right text inside

2) Books that have been created through generative AI

We counsel both employees and students to be aware of this issue, and choose online vendors carefully. Consider checking the reviews for the item in question, to be sure that others have received the correct material.

Interlibrary Loan: we don't have everything, but we can get you almost anything. Use ILL to order book chapters, articles, and books from other libraries.

Contact Melissa Waterworth with ILL questions: melissa.waterworth@dmu.edu

EndNote is a citation management software designed to store, manage, and cite bibliographic references, such as books and journal articles. It allows you to create your own personal library of citations by importing references from online databases. When leaving or graduating from DMU, you still retain the rights to the version you have a personal license to.

EndNote Basic runs in your browser, and can be accessed for free. Here is our guide for it: EndNote (Basic)

EndNote Desktop is a downloadable program, and has more features. All employees and students can access EndNote Desktop by emailing the library and asking for it. Here is our guide for it: EndNote (Desktop)

Our list of online guides can be found here: Library Guides

We can meet one-on-one or in small groups with both students and employees to assist with question development, search skills, citation help, literature reviews, research, and more.

We love to collaborate! We are happy to create custom guides, provide links for D2L, or lecture in your courses.

These quick links can be found on our homepage. They allow fast access to the most popular databases, point-of-care tools, and library tools. Click A-Z Journals to see a list of every journal we subscribe to. Click See All Database Collections to see our list of databases and filter them by contents.