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Judith K. Winn School of Honors

This guide is prepared with honors students in mind. Here you will find library and college resources to help you successfully graduate from the JKW School of Honors.

Articles in periodicals will provide the most up-to-date information on your topic. 

To locate only articles, use Academic Search Premier or ProQuest Research Library for general topics.

For more specific topics, you may want to use a subject specific database. 

Begin your search at the Library Homepage. 

A subject search will help to narrow down broad or general topics. For example- American artists

Keyword is useful when you want to combine terms. For example- looting and art

From the search results page, use the format box on the left to narrow the list to books. 

Use the library box to see what's available in our library.

 

You found a book or article that isn't in the BCC library and you really need it.  Now what?

Use our Inter-Library Loan request form and have the the item delivered to you.

Fill out all the information you have to help us get the article or book for you as soon as possible.

Google....because you know you want to!

If Google is your go to for research, think smarter and use Google Scholar.

In the settings, you can save your favorite libraries- Bergen Community College- and Google will show you if the articles you found are available through any of the library databases. Clicking on the "Full Text @ Bergen CC" link will bring you to the article in a library database

Here is a brief video that walks you through the steps- Searching Google Scholar

 

  For the JKW School of Honors, librarians are available to:

set regular meeting times at your convenience
visit your classrooms and provide research help
provide customized research help on a one on one basis

Research indicates that students who utilize library resources during their college careers have higher retention rates and higher GPAs than those students who do not use the library.*

 

The Sidney Silverman Library is here, physically and virtually, to help you achieve your academic goals by providing up to date materials on the shelves and securing access to numerous full-text magazine, journal and newspaper databases. 

    

*Soria, Krista M., Jan Fransen, and Shane Nackerud. "Library use and Undergraduate Student Outcomes: New Evidence for Students' Retention and Academic Success." Portal : Libraries and the Academy 13.2 (2013): 147-64. ProQuest. Web. 3 July 2014.