Hello!

My name is Jasmine Colón and I am your Embedded Librarian for English 1B with Jess Lerma. As your Embedded Librarian I am  here to guide you through the research process and provide instruction on subscription databases and citations.

I am available to you via:

Office Hours: Tuesdays 11am-11:30am via Zoom.

Email: Jasmine.Colon@westvalley.edu

Library Reference Chat:

Tuesdays 8am-11am and 4pm-7:30pm. Thursdays 11:30am-2:00pm

Getting Started with Databases

You will need your WVC student email to access the WVC Library's subscription databases.  Access to the databases is 24/7 on and off campus.

To access the WVC subscription databases:

1. Visit the WVC website and click on "Library" from the top banner.
2. On the WVC Library's homepage click on "Databases Find Articles" from the left-hand nav.

WVC Library Subscription Database Homepage

Welcome to our database homepage! All of our databases go through a proxy server so you will need to use your WVC email address to access our collection.

You can use our databases to find reputable quality resources in many source types and subjects:

• Peer reviewed and scholarly articles/journals
• Periodicals
• Statistical
• Images
• Streaming video and sounds
• Statistics
• Simulations

For this course, the focus will be on two literary criticism subscription databases:

• Literary Reference Center Plus (EBSCO)
• Literature Resource Center (Gale)