Library Services

Staff

For general questions about access to library services and delivery of library materials, students can contact the Valley Library Reference Desk.

If distance students reside in Central or Eastern Oregon, they can call upon Maureen Kelly, Librarian of the OSU Cascades Campus in Bend, Oregon.

Library Services for Distance Education Students and Faculty: Provides a summary of services and links to library policies, delivery services, instructions for accessing subscription databases, and other help pages.
Research Tools: OSU Libraries recommends this page as a starting point for all patrons doing research. It provides links to all catalogs, databases, as well as recommended resources for specific subject areas.
Subject Research Guides: Provides links to recommended resources for specific subject areas.
Off-Campus Access to Library Databases and Electronic Journals: Provides instruction for accessing library subscription databases from off-campus.
Using Lexis-Nexis' Academic Universe: Academic Universe from Lexis-Nexis offers the full-text of major regional, national, and international newspapers with coverage spanning, in some cases, over ten years.
Style Manuals, Citation Guides, and Instructions for Authors: Style manuals, citation guides, and instructions for authors
OSU Libraries Style and Citation Guides: General, APA, government, legal, MLA, and citing WWW sources.
Style Sheets for Citing Internet & Electronic Resources: Humanities (MLA & Chicago), Scientific (APA & CBE), and History (Turabian)
UC Berkeley - Teaching Library Internet Workshops
OSU Student Conduct Regulations: Policy on cheating, plagiarism, honesty, etc.: In addition to policy, instructors use a variety of tools to check for cheating, especially on written work.