The MCC Library provides eBooks and print books to students, faculty, and staff. Most books can be borrowed for 3 weeks. Need help? Ask a librarian!
We offer some textbooks for in-library use. You may also find older editions in our catalog.
If your course is using Open Educational Resources (OERs), there should be a link or readings in your Canvas course. If you need help, ask us! To learn more about OERs visit the Open Textbook Alliance.
Faculty, explore the MCC OER toolkit or the CCSNH Open Resources Page for guidance on adopting/adapting free course materials.
MCC Library provides access to dozens of databases that contain journal articles, news articles, reports, research and more. If you need help searching for what you need, ask a librarian or see the Getting Started with Research guide.
MCC Librarians have created online guides to help you find, evaluate, and use library and other resources. Click MCC Library Resources in the left menu in any Canvas course to see a research guide matched to your course (some non-research courses have the library homepage).
See all course and subject research guides, or visit one of our most popular guides:
Access the Union Leader, other NH newspapers, and international titles in Newsbank.
Read national newspapers like the New York Times, Boston Globe, and Wall Street Journal through our US Newsstream database.
Explore more in our News Databases on the A-Z Databases page.
To check if the MCC Library has access to a specific publication, type the title into the search box below. You can also, browse publications in a given subject area .
For the complete list of library databases, check out the A - Z List. Under the drop down menu for Explore Subject Areas, you can limit the selection of databases by Nursing, Medicine and Health.
When accessing library databases off campus or wirelessly on campus, you will need to provide your EasyLogin username and password.
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When you search in academic databases including MCC Library OneSearch, keywords give you the best search results. Next time you search, instead of typing in a long phrase such as "all the research that shows evidence to prove there's no life on the moon," try keywords.
A better search about lunar life would use keywords and look like this:
"life on the moon" and research
Video contents:
1:07 Searching in the Nursing & Allied Health database
5:13 Finding nursing research using OneSearch
7:37 Searching for nurse authors in CINAHL
9:05 How to use the citations in a review paper to find additional sources
Here are some tips:
1. You can add
AND nurs*
to your keyword search in any of our databases. This will look for some form of the word nurse in the title, abstract, and subject tags of the articles.
2. You can choose "advanced search" in CINAHL and find options to check off for nursing. Choose nursing under Journal Subset and you can check "Any author is a nurse," a box just above the Journal Subset box. In other databases you can choose Nursing and Allied Health as a discipline.
Please ask a librarian if you need help with these strategies.
Just as with library databases, there are open access databases that have helpful limiters. Watch the video to see searches in these three excellent options.
Video contents:
1:09 PubMed - limiting to nursing journals
5:21 Sigma Repository
9:47 Nursing Commons
1. In PubMed, add AND nurs* and/or check the "Nursing journals" box in your results (see video for demo).
2. Search an open access nursing collection:
Remember to examine whether the article you find has been peer-reviewed.
You can access our Getting Started With Research guide if you need more help, and you can also contact the library by phone, chat, or email, or by coming in. We'd be happy to work with you!
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