Electronic Resources

South Central Regional Library Council provides access to the following electronic resources. Please note that the New York State Library offers additional databases via its NOVELny program.

Candid Foundation Directory

(Provided by ESLN for all governing and affiliate member staff and NOT for public use)

Candid's Foundation Directory is a best-in-class research tool that helps nonprofits identify and connect with over 240,000 U.S. grantmakers. The tools available in the database are meant to reveal opportunities beyond published calls for proposals, which Candid claims make up less than 1% of total foundation funding.

To access the directory: https://access.esln.org/

To aid us all in effectively utilizing this resource, Candid maintains a regular schedule of live webinars, as well as a set of recorded videos available on-demand to help us learn how to succeed in finding grant funding.

EBSCO Literary Reference Source

(provided by SCRLC for all governing members and their component libraries)

This full-text database provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. It includes reference works, books, literary journals, and original content from EBSCO Publishing, featuring an expansive collection of author biographies, plot summaries & work overviews, full-text essays from leading publishers, literary reference books & monographs, cover-to-cover full text for literary magazines & journals, book reviews, poems from hundreds of sources, short stories, classic texts, and author interviews.

This database is added to libraries' EBSCOhost databases menu; libraries not using EBSCOhost can log in directly. For assistance, contact Claire Lovell at clovell@scrlc.org.

Our subscription to other EBSCO databases will include free trials. In the past, this included Teacher Reference Center, GreenFILE, and several ebook collections, although the list of trial databases will change with no notification to us or to you. When available, these are added to your EBSCOhost list, which is accessible with your institution's username and password here: EBSCOhost Login

LibGuides

The SCRLC LibGuides subscription is available for all members to use. The header image is not customizable but you are able to create new LibGuides and reuse content. Contact Claire Lovell for details.

Niche Academy

(Provided by SCRLC for all governing members and their component libraries)

You can use Niche Academy to meet training objectives for internal staff needs or public tutorials. They have existing "academies" available for you to reuse and you can create your own as needed. They offer live webinars regularly to help us optimize the platform.

Use Niche Academy to:

Organize and deliver training within your online academy
Access tutorials on soft skills, leadership, and other topics
Create training with easy-to-use content authoring tools
Track and assess learners' progress with in-depth reports

Email jphilippe@scrlc.org to set up a Niche Academy for your organization.

OCLC FirstSearch / WorldCat Discovery Subscription

(Provided by SCRLC for all governing members and their component libraries)

Log in to FirstSearch here with SCRLC's URL referral. Email Claire Lovell at clovell@scrlc.org for your institution's login information and authentication options.

This subscription allows member libraries to add their holdings to OCLC.

This subscription includes web visibility.

The FirstSearch interface provides precise, simultaneous searching of the following:

ArticleFirst: OCLC index of articles from the contents pages of journals
ClasePeriodica: Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities
Ebooks: OCLC catalog of online electronic books available through libraries worldwide
ECO: An OCLC collection of scholarly journals (Browse Journal Titles)
ERIC: Journal articles and reports in education
GPO: U.S. government publications
MEDLINE: All areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing
OAIster: Union catalog of digital resources
OpenAccessContent: Open access content in libraries worldwide
PapersFirst: OCLC index of papers presented at conferences worldwide
Proceedings: An OCLC index of worldwide conference proceedings
WorldCat: OCLC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide
WorldCatDissertations: A database of all dissertations and theses available in WorldCat