You can use this guide as a reference for your research. This guide has instructions, advice, and direct access to resources the library subscribes to, including databases with journal articles, newspapers, and magazines.
The VPN allows you to connect to the library's online articles and eBooks from off campus.
Visit library.ucmerced.edu/use/technology/vpn to download the VPN.
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When looking at articles in a database, full-text may be immediately available via a PDF or HTML page. If not, use the UCeLinks button.
Here's an example of an article you would need to use UC-eLinks to get the full text:
Improving Underperforming Schools
If UC-eLinks doesn't give you any options to read the full-text online, you can Interlibrary Loan (ILL) the item using your UCMnetID. Here's an example of an article you would need to ILL:
Human Services Professionals' Awareness of Human Trafficking
Research Services Librarian
Political Science & Sociology Liaison
Kolligian Library 275
(209) 631-6954
esalmon@ucmerced.edu