All articles can always be viewed by an unlimited number of people at all times.
Did you know that you can embed PDF's (articles & ebooks) from the Library's searches into your Canvas courses? Below is the instruction for what to do in Canvas after you download an article from the Library:
If you don't want to put the entire PDF of an article in Canvas, you can also use the Permalink to share with your students. See the image below to learn where the Permalink can be found.
Note that this link is the ONLY link that will take students back to the article if they are off campus. It's important that we share the permalink so students don't run into any roadblocks when trying to access the materials.
That's great! This process saves the students money, and you are able to utilize books/resources that the College already owns! The library has hundreds of thousands of ebooks that you can browse to see if they would fit well into your course. Are you looking for something specific? Let the library know by emailing your librarian or reeves.library@westminster-mo.edu.
Search the ebook collection here!
The most important thing to look for is the User License Agreement. This will let us know how many students can look at a book at once. The book below says Unlimited User Access, which means an unlimited number of students can look at the book online. Sometimes it will say 3 users, which means only 3 students can use the book at a time.
When you are using an ebook from the library, you can simply use the link on the record called a Permalink, you can find that on the record for the item. Below you can see where the permalink can be found.
You can also use the Permalink from inside the ebook PDF. The permalink from inside the ebook will take you directly to the book page where the link was generated.
We all might be familiar with embedding videos from YouTube, but did you know you can do a similar thing with resources from the Library?
Films on Demand is a great place to go for full-length documentaries, video clips, or episodes of television shows. You can embed the entire video or just a clip.
If you put the video in Canvas, these can easily be accessed by students so they can view them outside of class. Below you can view an image that shows where the embed function is on specific videos.
Did you know the Library has access to great graphics, charts, stats, and other things through Statista? It's an amazing resource that offers a variety of data in both numerical and visual formats. This can be great for adding visuals to any course, or for showing the importance of data in research.
To share a graphic from Statista, just search for what you need, and you can easily embed or share from there! View the images below to see the two different looks of a graph and an infographic, and where to go to save the images.
Infographic:
Dataset/Graph:
