Extra open hours this Friday and Saturday

Once again the UCC Library will be open some extra hours this Friday and Saturday to help you study for upcoming finals!

 We'll be open:

• 7:30 am -- 6 pm Friday, Dec. 2nd 
• 11 am -- 7 pm on Saturday, Dec. 3rd for the ASUCC Study-In

Please join us for Science (and Math, Literature, and everything else)!  Good luck with those final papers and exams. 

Is School Not Keeping You Busy Enough?

Did Halloween come and go too fast this year? Do you wish Thanksgiving would turn into Halloween II? Well now it can! Stay in the scary spirit with watching these movies and reading these books to help the time pass by until the warm weather comes back! Lucky for you, all of these can be found in the UCC library!

Just After Sunset
By: Stephen King

Scare your socks off with these short stories!

"Starred Review. Culled almost entirely from leading mainstream periodicals, these stories are a testament to the literary merits of the well-told macabre tale." - Publishers Weekly

"An uneven collection, but King has plainly had a ball writing these stories." - Kirkus Reviews

Shaun Of The Dead - DVD 791.43 S

Shaun doesn't have a very good day, so he decides to turn his life around by getting his ex to take him back, but he times it for right in the middle of what may be a zombie apocalypse... But for him, it's an opportunity to show everyone he knows how useful he is by saving them all. All he has to do is survive... And get his ex back.

Scanners - DVD 791.43 1980 S

Scanners have great psychic power, strong enough to control minds; they can inflict enormous pain and damage on their victims. Doctor Paul Ruth finds a scanner that Darryl Revok (the leader of the underground scanner movement for world domination) hasn't, and converts him to the good side so they can destroy the underground movement together.

Alien - DVD 791.43 A

The crew of the deep space mining ship Nostromo are awaken from hypersleep to investigate a strange signal from a nearby planet. While investigating the signal, they discover it was intended as a warning, and not an SOS.

Kitty's House Of Horrors
By: Carrie Vaughn - PB V

Talk radio host and werewolf Kitty Norville has agreed to appear on TV's first all-supernatural reality show. She's expecting cheesy competitions and manufactured drama starring shapeshifters, vampires, and psychics. But what begins as a publicity stunt will turn into a fight for her life.

An American Werewolf In London - 

DVD 791.43 A

Two American students are on a tour of Britain and are attacked by a Werewolf, leaving one dead and the other badly injured. The Werewolf is killed but reverts to its human form, and the local townspeople are unwilling to acknowledge its existence. The surviving student begins to have nightmares of hunting on four feet, but then his friend and other recent victims start appearing to him and demand the he find a way to die to release them from their curse of being trapped between worlds.

Night Of The Living Dead -
DVD 791.43 N

A group of people are trapped inside a farmhouse as legions of the walking dead try to get inside and eat their brains...Yum.. Can they get out of a zombie attack alive?

What Journals Do We Subscribe To??

You may have noticed our diminishing display shelves for new issues of magazines? Paper magazines/journals are seeing less use every year for research (and recreation). Some have gone out of business; others are neglected. Then we cancel the subscription. However, our magazine collection is bigger than ever. Aggregators, companies such as EBSCO and Gale, have thousands of full text titles in their databases and the UCC library has dozens of these databases. Our biggest database of magazine/journal articles is EBSCOHost Academic Search Premier but Gale, CQ Researcher, and LexisNexis also provide access to tens of thousands of articles. Meanwhile, both EBSCO and Gale produce many subject databases, some with unique journal titles.

What if you are looking for a specific journal? How are you supposed to know which database includes that title? Well, EBSCO has a database for that:

It's name is A-to-Z Index and it looks just about as plain as its name:



But it does get the job done: type in the name of a journal and the results of your search will give you a list of those databases where your journal is available in full text.

In "advanced search" you can search general subjects like children or crime or music to see a list of journals on that topic and which database provides the full text.

Obviously, it should be said that if one of our database subscriptions does NOT have the full text of the journal you are looking for, then there will be no results for your search. (Check for typos or ask the library staff for help at any time!)