Jacobs Library: Faculty Resources: Electronic Resources

Save Time on Research

Ask library staff about setting up alerts or RSS feeds from library databases for new issues of journals or articles on your topic of interest.

Brightspace Integration

Embed a chat widget in Brightspace courses to make library assistance seamless for students.

Want to add library tutorials or links into your Brightspace course?

Contact the library if you are interested.

Leganto Readings & Resources Tool
Would you like to develop a course reserve? Would you like your students to be able to view what you already have on reserve in one simple list? Leganto Readings and Resources Lists integrates with Brightspace, and can be used to house course reserves, create reading lists, create resource lists with films, uploaded materials, and materials from the internet outside the library. Click here to learn more or contact us to get a list started!

Open Athens & Linking to Library Resources

Use the links below to learn how to create links from different resources to share with your students via Blackboard, email, or your syllabus for accessibility off-campus.

Creating Persistent Links to Articles and Videos
Please use the instructions to properly formulate the links to sources in the library databases so that you and others can easily return to the source as necessary.
Learn more about your Open Athens account
In Spring 2021, Jacobs Library replaced EZ Proxy linking with Open Athens. Click the link to learn more about saving your links.

Electronic Resources Contact

Grace Norris

(815) 224 - 0263

grace_norris@ivcc.edu