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We’ve received a lot of questions about renewing OhioLINK books this week. You can renew your OhioLINK books online, up to four times, as long as another user has not requested the item. Renewals can be made within seven days of the book’s due date. Here’s how:
1. Log on to your library record/account from the OSU library’s Web site.
2. Click on # items currently checked out.
3. Select the items you want to renew.
4. Click on “renew selected items.”
CDs, DVDs and videos requested through OhioLINK may not be renewed.
Find answers to more frequently asked questions about OhioLINK online borrowing, including a video tutorial, here. Please contact your library if you have questions about renewing OhioLINK items.
Related FAQs:
FAQs: How Do I Borrow Books From OhioLINK?
FAQs: Where is that OhioLINK book?
Written by Candi Clevenger
April 2nd, 2009
While content in the Electronic Journal Center remains unavailable, OhioLINK is working diligently to provide access to the same content on each publisher’s Web site. Available publishers’ sites are listed here and we continue to update this list as needed. Project Muse has been added to the list today and their content is now available. Links to the listed publisher sites work for both on and off campus users.
Over the weekend OhioLINK staff were able to restore EJC content from 2008-2009 for most publishers, except Elsevier, Springer and Blackwell. We continue to work to restore the remaining EJC content as quickly as possible, but do not have all the reload processes in place yet nor the experience to provide a useful time line for full EJC restoration. We hope to be able to share a schedule in the near future.
Since we have a growing body of available content, we restored the alphabetical title links on the EJC home page. These links show only those journals that are currently available, for other journals or issues please continue to visit the publishers’ sites.
In addition, OSU Libraries has added access via the Online Journals List to journal titles from the publishers in the OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center. OSU users may not have access to all journal titles or to all years. This is a temporary measure while OhioLINK restores the Electronic Journal Center content after a massive hardware failure.
February 17th, 2009
Beginning Wednesday afternoon, February 4, the OhioLINK computer disk storage system suffered a widespread, and supposedly not possible, multiple component failure affecting all major services with the exception of the OhioLINK Library Catalog. We have restored all services except the Electronic Journal Center (EJC). Restoration of the EJC remains under vigorous analysis, but unfortunately we know that any solution will not be immediate. In light of this, we are taking immediate steps to provide alternative access to the resources of the EJC through the various Web sites of the EJC journal publishers.
As noted on this page, we have immediate access to many EJC publisher sites and are working to expand access to the rest as quickly as possible. While the EJC is down, we will continue to improve this site to direct you to the proper publishers. We will also work to adjust our systems that link article citations to full text in the EJC by redirecting links to the publisher sites. We are examining every possibility to keep you connected to resources you need and to improve that connectivity as quickly as possible, while the EJC is not available.
We will keep you up to date through this Web page and the “New at OhioLINK” announcements at www.ohiolink.edu. Your local library will also always know the latest news.
The OhioLINK staff is sincerely sorry for this significant disruption in services. We remain committed, as we have since 1992, to providing high quality information resources on a consistent and reliable basis to the Ohio higher education community.
Sincerely,
Tom Sanville, Executive Director, tom@ohiolink.edu
February 8, 2009
February 10th, 2009
News from OhioLINK…
Get ready for your next big test or job interview with LearningExpress Library. LearningExpress features online, interactive practice tests for the: ASVAB, Civil Service Careers, GED, GRE, GMAT, LSAT, MCAT, PPST Praxis I, TOEFL, U.S. Citizenship and much more. LearningExpress’ online, interactive practice tests offer instant scoring, detailed answer explanations, and a personalized analysis that identifies your strengths and weaknesses in each major content area so you’ll know how to prepare.
LearningExpress also includes courses, career building tools, writing aids and helpful e-books.
To use LearningExpress Library, you first set up your own individual account. If you are off-campus, use the OhioLINK remote authentication proxy URL (or your institution’s off-campus access method) to connect to LearningExpress, create an account, and then log into LearningExpress with your individual username and password.
LearningExpress Library is available to all OhioLINK users and all Ohioans as part of the Ohio Web Library.
June 27th, 2008
This year OhioLINK celebrates 15 years of service to the research and learning communities at Ohio’s institutions of higher education. Read in the latest OhioLINK Update about how access to information has changed during these years and how OhioLINK has been a driving force in providing information to the academic community.
December 3rd, 2007
From OhioLINK: No one explains the importance and value of OhioLINK to education, teaching and research better than the students, faculty and staff who depend on it and the librarians who help make it great. We’re currently searching for a few more good stories from OhioLINK users. So tell us, how has OhioLINK helped you? Were you able to finish a research project that would not have been possible otherwise? Did you get an A on a class assignment? Did you teach your students something new? Perhaps you found that rare resource you had been searching for?
If you have a story or testimonial that provides a clear picture of the value of the OhioLINK program, please share it with us. Your story might be featured on the OhioLINK Web site and/or in future publications.
November 27th, 2007
The OhioLINK Electronic Book Center offers thousands of scholarly and reference e-books covering the humanities, sciences and social sciences. These books are used via your regular Web browser. To find information in these e-books, you can:
- search for all occurrences of a word or phrase in all the e-books
- look for a specific book by author or title
- search for all occurrences of a word or phrase within one book
- search or browse among the books in a subject area
The E-Book Center contains electronic books purchased by Ohio academic libraries from these publishers:
ABC-CLIO: educational reference books – encyclopedias, handbooks, biographical collections, guides – on many specialized topics, primarily in the humanities and social sciences.
Oxford University Press: important scholarly books, both classic and newly-published works, in the humanities and social sciences. Oxford imprints include OUP Oxford, OUP USA, and Clarendon Press.
Springer: high-quality scientific, technological and medical books. Springer imprints include Apress, Birkhäuser, Physica-Verlag, Steinkopff, and others.
November 27th, 2007
Ah summer, time to hit the beach, travel to parts unknown, and grab every possible minute of sunshine. But if your summer plans also include doing research, please remember that you can have your OhioLINK books and other library materials delivered to any participating library, including two public libraries, Cuyahoga County Public Library and Westerville Public Library.
May 23rd, 2007
The eight millionth scholarly research article was recently added to OhioLINKs award-winning Electronic Journal Center. The EJC provides students, faculty and staff at participating OhioLINK institutions with instantaneous online access to more than 7,100 journals from 101 publishers.
OhioLINK users downloaded 4.9 million articles from the EJC in 2006. A total of 25 million articles have been downloaded from the EJC since its inception in April 1998.
New journal issues are added to the EJC daily. To stay current, OhioLINK users have the option of receiving updates of new issues via e-mail alerts or RSS feeds. You can also save searches and have the results sent to you. Find instructions for these features here.
Want to find out if OhioLINK has a particular journal? Try the E-Journal Finder. The E-Journal Finder searches the EJC and several other databases to help find desired journals. If you dont find the journal in question using the E-Journal Finder, check with your librarian as your library may provide other means of accessing the journal online.
March 13th, 2007
The OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center will have a new interface for the New Year beginning January 8, 2007. Faculty, students, staff and librarians at OhioLINK member institutions can catch a sneak peek of the new interface now.
The new interface will look familiar to current EJC users, but it will also offer better performance and more functionality. New features include:
- My Articles - A function of My EJC, the My Articles features allows you to create and save your favorite articles for easy reference later.
- Password retrieval - In the old interface forgotten passwords were irretrievable. Now you can automatically generate a new one.
- Find similar articles in the EJC with just one click.
- Collapsible/Expandable panels allow for faster browsing of titles with extensive numbers of issues or long back files.
- Quick links to the complete article from both the issue and article level page helps you get the full-text article more quickly.
These oldie-but-goodie features are still available and worth trying out if you haven’t already:
- Journal alerts - Get new issue alerts via RSS feed or go to My EJC and create an account to create a list of favorite journals and set up e-mail notifications.
- My Searches - Put your research on autopilot. Save your searches and set times for the system to automatically execute them and e-mail you the results.
It is possible to migrate your saved searches from the old system to the new one. Go here for instructions on doing so.
January 3rd, 2007
Need a quick fact, illustration or overview of a topic? Try the Electronic Reference Books Collection, which now contains 501 reference books, including encyclopedias, handbooks, biographical collections and guides.
OhioLINK has recently added 11 new e-books to this collection including:
Genetic Engineering: A Reference Handbook Second Edition
December 13th, 2006
