As a member of Illinois Valley Community College you have many services and resources available to you via Jacobs Library at IVCC. This guide is intended to assist you with your research needs as well as provide you with contact information. We have a team of people who want to help you achieve your academic goals. Please visit the tabs of this guide to learn more about IVCC's library resources.
Why? What can you do with your entire 14 digit IVCC ID card #?
How? What information do you need to log in from off-campus?
Please contact the library with questions about off-campus access. For more information about the email change, go to www.ivcc.edu/email.
Where? Need to get an ID card created?
Please contact the library with questions about your ID card.
Ottawa Center counts as on-campus. Ottawa Center students only need to log in to library resources from off-campus.
Please see the other tabs for login information.
Dual credit students need to log into library resources from off-campus and from dual credit high school sites.
Please see the other tabs for login information.
Online students may use resources on-campus, but all of the library resources are also available off-campus.
Please see the other tabs for login information.
Start with the SOAR Catalog!
Much like Google, SOAR is our Library search engine that will search over everything you have access to as an Illinois Valley Community College member. SOAR is a great place to start to get a look into what we have before honing into specific databases for online research, and it's the catalog we use to search through our physical collections, as well. When using SOAR, you can search through the different collections we have, using search scopes in the search bar.
SOAR Search Scopes
What does each search profile search? SOAR Search Scopes include the following:
Combined Search - The combined search searches every type of resource, meaning articles, books, eBooks, videos, audiobooks, etc. If something is available at another I-Share library, you will see other institutions who have the item in the 'Get It' section of your physical item's result. This search scope does not search over EBSCO databases, read more below.
Library Catalog - The library catalog search searches over items that Jacobs Library owns and filters out items that we subscribe to. Owned items include but are not limited to all of our physical items, some eBooks, and perpetually purchased materials.
Articles - The articles search is self explanatory, and searches over only articles including journal articles, news articles, etc., except for EBSCO articles, as you will see below.
All I-Share Libraries - The I-Share search will bring up other institution's holdings that we can request to have sent to our library for your convenience if our library does not have what you were looking for. You can send I-Share requests for pickup at the Oglesby and Ottawa Campus.
EBSCO API Databases - The EBSCO API search is separated out because EBSCO competes with the company that powers SOAR, which is ProQuest. These databases, unfortunately, only have results show up in this separate search.
Course Reserves - If an instructor has put items on reserve in our system, Leganto, these items will show up in the Course Reserves search.
Logging into your SOAR Catalog Account other Library Resources Off-Campus