Library and Library Account Resources

5-College Libraries:

• Amherst College: Keefe Science Library, Robert Frost Library
• Hampshire College: Harold F. Johnson Library
• Mount Holyoke College: Williston & Miles-Smith Library
• Smith College: Neilson Library, Young Science Library
• UMass Amherst: Science and Engineering Library (primary resource for Biology and natural resources reference material) and W.E.B. Du Bois Library (UMass main campus library, open 24hrs)
• You can even borrow DVDs from the 5-College Libraries! Also, 3D printing services are available at the Digital Media Lab in the Du Bois Library: https://www.library.umass.edu/locations/dml/

Library Account Resources

• Interlibrary Loan (ILL) & Document Delivery
  • If you are unable to find an item in the 5-College system, you can request it for free through ILL (this is a great service – it’s usually pretty quick too!)
  • The requested item will be sent to your location – if it’s a book, the physical copy will often be sent, but for journal articles, it might be scanned and emailed to you as a PDF
• Citation managers
  • The library provides support for getting you started on software for managing your citations that can be used both on- and off-campus to store and organize your citations from journals, books, databases, and websites
  • There are open-source reference managers out there that are free to you forever (i.e. Mendeley, Zotero)
• Library Databases
  • Web of Science, etc.
• Free subscriptions, such as The New York Times