Library Accounts
The Rockhurst University ID card also is the library card for students. At the bottom of the card is the library account number, which begins "10006".

Register online for your library account or at the Circulation Desk on the main floor of the library. Rockhurst students, faculty and staff are required to use their Rockhurst email addresses in their library accounts. Library accounts expire at the end of each semester so you will need to reactivate your account next semester. This can also be done online.

You will be given a unique identification number in addition to your library account number. With this library account number and unique borrower identification number you may:

• Request items directly from the other libraries in the online catalog;
• Checkout items directly from other MOBIUS libraries. Rockhurst University is a member of the MOBIUS consortium consisting of 60 Missouri academic libraries around the state. This gives our students the ability to identify and use materials from the collections of these libraries. Currently the total of the collections of these libraries is nearly 20 million items.
• View your library account to see what you have checked out, renew items, view any unpaid fees on your account or view items on request from other libraries.

Detailed information about library accounts and utilizing all of the functions listed above can be found on the library's Circulation Services web page.

Identifying Materials in the Library Collection
Materials owned by the library can be identified by using the Online Catalog. Rockhurst University is a member of the MOBIUS consortium consisting of 60 Missouri academic libraries. Books available in MOBIUS libraries can be requested by you and sent here for your use. Additional information about this is found on the Patron Initiated Borrowing Through the Online Catalog guide.

For sources specificially on the Crusades, do a Library of Congress Subject Heading search for Crusades.

Periodicals (journals, newspapers and magazines) owned by the library can be identified by linking to the Periodical Holdings page on the library web site. On this page you will be directed to use the Periodicals Holdings List to see if we have a subscription to a title.

Understanding the Difference Between General Periodicals and Scholarly Journals
Criteria to determine how scholarly and trade journal articles differ from general interest articles in the field can be found on the Scholarly Journal, Trade Journal or Popular Magazine? guide.

Access to Library Databases
On campus access to most of the library's subscription databases is available on the "Electronic Resources" page. Use either the alphabetical or subject lists of databases to find the one you need.

Off campus access is available through the VPN proxy server provided by Computer Services. The Off Campus Access to Databases page will link you to the page provided by Computer Services. If you link directly to the library's web site outside of VPN you will not be able to use the databases.

Sources of Analysis and Discussion on the Crusades in Library Databases

JSTOR
This is an electronic archive of scholarly journals in a variety of disciplines, which have been digitally reproduced to provide access to the backfile of each title. Some titles go back to the 19^th century. JSTOR will not include the last 2-5 years of the journals.

Ebscohost databases:

Academic Search Premier
This database indexes and abstracts articles appearing in over 7300 journals in the areas of social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more, some as far back 1965. Full text of articles appear from 4000 scholarly journals, including 3100 peer-reviewed titles.

ATLAS Religion Index
A comprehensive reference database designed to support religious and theological scholarship in graduate education and faculty research. Contains over 1 million citations from more than 1,400 international titles and 14,000 multi-author works related to the field of religion. Includes a full range of index citations to journal articles, essays in multi-author works, and book reviews from ATLA print indexes. Covers 1949 to the present. Full text is included for selected journal titles.

Catholic Periodical and Literature Index
This index provides indexing to currently significant Catholic periodicals of permanent value. Indexing consists of subject, author/editor entries, a book title index and book review index. Papal documents and other church documents are also indexed. Coverage 1981 - present. Some journals have the full text of articles is available in the database.

Communication & Mass Media Complete
This is an index to research journals in the areas of communication and mass media studies. More information.

Humanities E-Book Project
The American Council of Learned Societies provides this database which is the full-text of both in-print and out-of-print important books in the field of history. Due to copyright restrictions, the full-text cannot be printed or downloaded from the database. Some of the titles are available for purchase directly from the publishers through the database.

Internet Resources

EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page
This site offers the text to numerous European historical documents arranged by region and historical period.

History Net
http://www.thehistorynet.com/
A vast collection of articles on all aspects of history.

Internet Modern History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html
Covering early modern Europe to the present, this site offers a large collection of information and numerous primary and secondary resources.

Librarians' Internet Index: History of Crusades
http://www.lii.org
Links to scholarly web sites on the Victorian Era which have been evaluated by librarians.

World History Archives
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/index.html
A collection of resources to support the study and teaching of world history and history in general.

Interlibrary Loan
Articles not found full text in the library's collection or books not found in a MOBIUS library can be ordered from other libraries across the country through Interlibrary Loan. Use the forms on our Interlibrary Loan page to submit your request electronically. Books are free; articles are 20 cents per page per article. Usually you will have your materials within a week after submitting your request.

Proper Citation of Sources
When using information from other sources, whether copyrighted or not, it is necessary to give attribution to those sources. Doing so will help you avoid plagiarism.

More information about copyright is found on the Copyright and Fair Use guide.

Information on how to avoid plagiarism is on the Avoiding Plagiarism guide.

The library provides the RefWorks bibliographic management system. This is a bibliography management program that allows Rockhurst University faculty, students and staff to set up their own online account to manage electronic citations imported from databases subscribed to by the Greenlease Library as well as input citation information from print sources. Only Rockhurst University email accounts may be used with RefWorks accounts. These citations are easily incorporated into documents created in word processing programs. Many citation formats are included.

RefWorks Account Information

Tutorial and Quick Start Guide (PDF 2.42MB)*

Connect to RefWorks

How to Export Saved Citations from a Database Into RefWorks (PDF 29KB)*

Adding References Manually to RefWorks

Additional Sources of Information in the Library Collection
In addition to the sources listed below, the library has many print sources in the Reference collection that give information on world history. Most of these sources cannot be checked out, so plan time to visit the library to consult them. Many of these are listed on the World History Sources Research Guide.

Updated September 5, 2008