In order to view any persistent link from off-campus, add the Drake Proxy prefix to the beginning of the URL: http://cowles-proxy.drake.edu/login?url=

AccessPharmacy

FOR ARTICLES: From the article level, simply copy the URL from the browser. It is a persistent link.

AccessScience

FOR ARTICLES: From the article level, scroll to the bottom of the page to 'How to cite this article.' Copy the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for the article and create the URL by adding http://dx.doi.org/ to the DOI.

EXAMPLE: http://cowles-proxy.drake.edu/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1036/1097-8542.641200

American Chemical Society (ACS Publications)

FOR ARTICLES: Perform a search. From the search results screen, construct the URL using the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for the article to which you want to link. http://dx.doi.org/

EXAMPLE: http://cowles-proxy.drake.edu/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nn800264q

Annual Reviews

FOR ARTICLES: From the abstract page of a specific article, copy the URL in the browser. It is a persistent URL.

ARTstor

FOR IMAGES: When you find an image, highlight it, click 'Share' in the top header bar, then 'Generate Image URL.' Copy the URL.

Birds of North America

FOR ARTICLES: From the article level, scroll to the bottom of the page for the citation information. The persistent link is here.

NOTE: Use either the URL or the Digital Object Identifier, DOI (by adding http://dx.doi.org/ in front it). Do not use both.

Britannica Online

FOR ARTICLES: From the top of any article, click 'Cite Article' and copy the URL. The URL is also at the bottom of every article in the citation information.

Chronicle of Higher Education

FOR ARTICLES: The URL in the browser is a stable link. Or from a search, the stable URL is included in the brief information listed before you enter the article.

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)

FOR ARTICLES: After your search, there will be a URL listed below each result. Copy the URL.

ConsumerLab

FOR ARTICLES: All URLs in ConsumerLab are stable. Simply copy the URL in the browser.

CountryWatch

FOR ARTICLES: According to CountryWatch, all URLs are stable except for CountryWire articles and Search Engine results. Simply copy the URL in the browser.

CREDO Reference

FOR ARTICLES or REFERENCE BOOKS: All URLs in CREDO are stable. Simply copy the URL in the browser. Note, if you are in an article and would like the URL for the entire book, scroll to the bottom of the entry and copy the URL in the citation information.

CSA Illumina

Communication Studies: A SAGE Full-Text Collection & Education: A SAGE Full-Text Collection
FOR ARTICLES: From your search, click "View Record" below the article title, copy the DOI and append it to: http://dx.doi.org.

EXAMPLE: http://cowles-proxy.drake.edu/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444808094356

ERIC (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts version); Social Services Abstracts; Sociological Abstracts
FOR ARTICLES: From your search, click the title of the article you would like to link to. Copy the DOI and append it to: http://dx.doi.org/. For ERIC, copy the "Resource Location." NOTE: The DOI will NOT link to CSA but rather to the publisher.

EXAMPLE: http://cowles-proxy.drake.edu/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X07006472

ebrary

FOR BOOKS: The best URL to use is the one found in our online catalog. Search for your book in the OPAC, click on the URL link to open the book, and copy the URL from the browser.

EBSCOhost Databases

FOR SEARCHES: After you perform your search, right below the number of results, there is a green bar, on the right side of the bar is "Alert/Save/Share." Click this link to see the persistent URL for your search.

FOR ARTICLES: After you perform your search click on the title of the article/record you want to view. Scroll to the bottom of the abstract and you will see "Persistent Link to this Record."

EBSCOhost databases include: Academic Search Complete; America: History & Life; Art Abstracts; ATLA Religion Database; Bibliography of Native North Americans; Biological Abstracts; Business Source Complete; Communication & Mass Media Complete; EconLit; ERIC; GalleryWatch CRS Reports; Gender Studies; GreenFILE; Health Source: Consumer Edition; Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition; Historical Abstracts; International Pharmaceutical Abstracts; LGBT Life; Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts; Literary Reference Center; Mental Measurements Yearbook; MLA (Modern Language Assn.) Bibliography; MLA (Modern Language Assn.) Directory of Periodicals; Nation Archive; National Review Archive; New Republic Archive; Newspaper Source; Professional Development Collection; PsycARTICLES; PsycCRITIQUES; PsycINFO; Regional Business News; Scientific American Archive; Teacher Reference Center; Tests In Print; and Vocational & Career Collection.

EmeraldPlus

FOR ARTICLES: After a search, click the title of the article. Copy the 'Article URL' listed below the abstract.

Gale Cengage

Gale Virtual Reference Library
FOR ARTICLES: From your search, click on the title of the article you want to link to. Scroll to the bottom of the article, copy the URL included in the citation information.

Gale Virtual Reference Library includes: Business Plans Handbook and International Directory of Company Histories.

Making of Modern Law & Making of Modern Law Trials
FOR ARTICLES: From your search, click the 'Full Citation' link just below the article title. The persistent URL is listed in the source citation information.

Greenwood

FOR ARTICLES: From the article level, click 'citation' to the upper right. Use the URL provided in the citation as the persistent URL.

Greenwood databases include: African American Experience and Latino American Experience.

Ingenta.com

FOR ARTICLES: Use 'http://openurl.ingenta.com/content?genre=article' You then need to specify the article required by adding metadata elements to the URL. Ingenta recommends including the following elements as a minimum to obtain best results: ISSN (&issn=); Volume (&volume=); Issue (&issue=); Start page of article (&spage=); and End page of article (&epage=).

For example: http://cowles-proxy.drake.edu/login?url=http://openurl.ingenta.com/content?genre=article&issn=0190-2725&volume=71&issue=3&spage=209&epage=212

Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

FOR ARTICLES: ICPSR utilizes Digital Object Identifiers or DOIs. In ICPSR the DOI is found near the top of each metadata record describing a study and is also appended to the data citation. Simply add http://dx.doi.org/ to the DOI.

EXAMPLE: http://cowles-proxy.drake.edu/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06849

IOPScience (Institute of Physics)

FOR ARTICLES: IOPScience utilizes Digital Object Identifiers or DOIs. Click on the article title you wish to link to and the DOI is listed in the blue box at the top of the page with the rest of the citation information. Simply add http://dx.doi.org/ to the DOI.

EXAMPLE: http://cowles-proxy.drake.edu/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0954-3899/35/12/125101

JSTOR

FOR ARTICLES: After you perform a search (and before you click on a specific article), the persistent URL is listed at "Stable URL" when you click on the "Article Information" link right below the title and author name. If you have clicked on an article title, the "Article Information" button is on the right.

FOR JOURNALS: If you click on a journal title, the persistent URL is the URL in your browser. You can use that URL.

LexisNexis Academic

FOR ARTICLES: Once you know the article you want to link to, open a new browser window (so you can refer to your article). Go to http://www.amdev.net/lna_source_link.php.

On the left side of the screen under durable links, click on: Articles, Shows, Cases, or Sources depending on the item you want to link to.

EXAMPLE: To link to the article 'Room to Relax?' from the August 2nd, 2008 issue of The Irish Times, click 'article,' then enter the publication name The Irish Times, then the author (if known), the article title 'Room to Relax?' then the date. Hit submit and the URL is: http://www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnacademic/api/version1/sr?shr=t&csi=142626&sr=HLEAD(Room+to+relax?)+AND+DATE+IS+August+2+2008.

Don't forget to add the proxy to the beginning of the URL.

National Journal Group's Policy Central

FOR ARTICLES: All URLs are stable. Simply copy the URL from the browser.

Natural Standard

FOR ARTICLES: All URLs are stable. Simply copy the URL in your browser.

Nature

FOR ARTICLES: From the search screen or on the full-text page of an article, just below (sometimes above) the title is the Digital Object Identifier or DOI. Simply add this prefix to the DOI: http://dx.doi.org/

EXAMPLE: http://cowles-proxy.drake.edu/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/453700b
Nature also includes: News@Nature

NetLibrary

FOR BOOKS: The best URL to use is the one found in our online catalog. Search for your book in the OPAC, right click on the URL link for the book and 'Copy Shortcut.'

New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)

FOR ARTICLES: All URLs in NEJM are stable (for the full-text HTML view or the PDF version). Simply copy the URL from the browser.

Newsbank

FOR ARTICLES: Scroll to the bottom of the article where you'll see a grey box with "To bookmark this article, right-click on the link below, and copy the link location." You can then paste the stable URL into any document.

Newsbank includes: The Chicago Tribune, The Des Moines Register and The New York Times (2000-current).

Original Sources

FOR DOCUMENTS: URLs in Original Sources are stable. From the document view, simply copy the URL in the browser.

Oxford Online

African American Studies Center Online & Oxford Islamic Studies Online
FOR ARTICLES: From the article level, click the 'Cite' icon towards the top left of the page. The citation information contains the persistent URL to that article.

Oxford Art Online & Oxford Music Online
FOR ARTICLES: From the article level, click the 'Cite' icon towards the top right of the page. The citation information contains the persistent URL to the article.

Oxford Reference Online
FOR ARTICLES: The stable URL is included in the citation information at the end of the article.

Policy, Form & Manual Analysis (PF&M)

FOR ARTICLES: Links to articles are stable. Simply copy the URL from the browser.

ProjectMUSE

Every URL to an article in ProjectMUSE is stable. Simply find the article you want, click "View HTML" or "View PDF" and copy the URL.

ProQuest Databases

FOR ARTICLES: Click on an article, in the 'Document View' page, scroll to the bottom and copy the 'Document URL.'

ProQuest databases include: Ethnic NewsWatch; GenderWatch; The New York Times (1851-three years ago); and The Wall Street Journal.

ScienceDirect

FOR ARTICLES: From your search, click the title of the article you would like to link to. Copy the DOI and append it to: http://dx.doi.org/

EXAMPLE: http://cowles-proxy.drake.edu/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa.2008.05.132

SCOPUS

FOR ARTICLES: From your search, click the 'Abstract + Refs' button below the article you would like to link to. Copy the DOI and append it to: http://dx.doi.org/

EXAMPLE: http://cowles-proxy.drake.edu/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.peptides.2008.04.015

NOTE:The DOI will NOT link to SCOPUS but rather to the publisher. There are no persistent links to the article record in SCOPUS.

Smithsonian Global Sound

FOR RECORDINGS: From your search, click the 'View Static URLs' below the record you want to access. A new window will open, copy the URL.

Wiley InterScience

FOR ARTICLES: Click the 'Abstract' link below the article title. Scroll to the bottom of the abstract, copy the DOI and append it to: http://dx.doi.org/

EXAMPLE: http://cowles-proxy.drake.edu/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/gj.3350300308

Use the online catalog to identify the book you would like, and copy down its call number. The call number will start with one or two letters. Use those letters to figure out where in the Library the book should be:

Book Type	Location
Call letters A - D	First Floor, East
Call letters E - N	Second Floor, East
Call letters P - Z	Second Floor, West
Oversized	Second Floor, West
Folio	Second Floor, West
Reference Books (REF)	First Floor, West
Remote Reference Books	Tier Four
Government Documents (GOVDOCS)	Tiers One, Two and Three
Periodicals 1992 - Present	Ground Floor, East
Periodicals 1991 and before	Ground Floor, West
Browsing Area for new books and periodicals	Ground Floor, East

Librarians are always willing to help you locate books. Please ask for help at the All Services Desk.

All of our print and electronic journals can be found in the same place, our journal list.

Find journals by visiting the Journals & Newspapers page. From here you can search for a journal title or browse by subject area.

If you don't know where to begin, start out at our home page and pick a path for what you want to find, books, journals, articles, images, etc.

Quick Answer:

Use one of the periodical databases.

Explanation:

Our 15,000 electronic journals come in online packages known as “periodical databases.” Each database has between 200 to over 4,000 e-journals. In addition, most include indexing (rather than full text) for even more journals. Indexing provides only the “citation” information - name of article along with when and where it was published.

Most databases have an easy-to-use basic search, but some have advanced search options available, too. To start your basic search, type in two or three words describing what you are looking for. Press enter or click on “search.” The results page will list the title, author, and publishing information for each article it finds. If you want to see the article, click on it. Usually, there will be an “abstract” or short summary of the article available.

To get to the full text of the article, scroll down. In a few databases, there is an additional link to click to get to the full text. When the database you are in does not have full text for the article, it will have a link that reads “Search for Full-text Article.” Follow this link to find the full text if it is available in a different database. Remember, not ALL articles are available in full text- but with over 15,000 periodicals’ worth of them, chances are good that you will find something to suit your needs.

Unless marked Reserve or Media Storage, media materials are shelved in the Electronic Resouce Collection along the north wall of the Information Commons area, first floor, west side.

DVDs and videotapes can be checked out for two days by students and for one week by faculty and staff. Audio CDs can be checked out for one week.

Media materials are listed in the online catalog and can be searched for by title, subject and keyword. To look specifically for media material, change the "type" dropdown box to Audio CD, DVD or Videotape on the search form.

Law Library materials use the types Circulating Audio Cassette, Circulating DVD, etc. By leaving the search form empty, the catalog will pull up all entries under that specific type of material.

E-mail

E-mail a reference librarian any time at reference@drake.edu.

IM 

Online chat with a reference librarian is available with our service called AskUs Online. Click the link for more information and hours.

Phone

Librarians are available to answer your questions at 271-2113.

In person

Please ask at the All Services Desk at the top of the stairs at the main entrance.  The desk attendent will contact one of the available Librarians.

Instructors may put course-related materials on reserve to make them more readily available for their students.

Review the procedures and complete the forms at Reserves & E-reserves Procedures.

You can contact Kris Mogle at (515) 271-4819 or kristine.mogle@drake.edu with any questions you may have.

Fine Rates
Overdue Items
Overdue notices for items checked out at Cowles Library are automatically sent via email one working day after the due date.
There is a three day grace period from the date books are due until overdue fines are charged. There is no grace period for audio-visual materials.

Overdue fines for library books and audio-visual materials are 20 cents per day. Fines for Reserve materials are 50 cents per hour.
We do not charge fines for books or audio-visual materials on days the library is closed. We DO charge fines for Reserve materials when the library is closed.

Lost Items
If you lose something that you've checked out, please notify circulation@drake.edu immediately. Charges for lost books or audio-visual items include the replacement price for the item, a processing fee, and any late fees incurred if the item was overdue when reported lost.

Paying fines
Users who have fines have the following payment options.

Pay at the Payments Desk
You can pay at the Payments Desk (top of the stairs, turn left) anytime the Library building is open. We can accept cash (U.S. currency) or checks only. We are not currently able to process credit or debit cards. If you are off-campus and want to mail a check, the address is:

Payments Desk
Cowles Library
Drake University
2507 University Avenue
Des Moines, IA 50311

Pay at Student Accounts

• Call the fines desk (515) 271-2112
• Library staff will determine the amount of the fine and/or replacement costs
• We will then transfer you to Student Accounts so they can get your credit/debit card information
• Student accounts will alert the fines desk staff when the card has cleared. Library staff will then remove the fines from your Library account and any Library holds from your Banner account.

Each School/College (and in the case of the College of Arts & Sciences, each Department) is given an allocation each year from which to place orders for monographs (books) or media (DVD, Video, CD, etc). Any faculty member may place an order for a book or media to be added to the library collection, but should check with the Liaison of their School/College/Department to determine if a procedure is in place for submitting its orders. Some Departments allocate their library budget allotment among their faculty members and closely track the spending.

Individuals may also place a book or media order request using the Cowles Library web order form, via e-mail, or by campus mail provided that the book meets with the previously stated selection criteria. Note that the preference for media material requested is the DVD format. VHS tapes are purchased only when the DVD version is unavailable.

Resources will be acquired with the intent of supporting the curriculum - that is, meeting the information and research needs of Drake students and representing value for the money.

Faculty may request that a free electronic resource trial be initiated. The request should be addressed to the Librarian Liaison assigned to their College/School/Department, or by directing a request to Teri Koch (teri.koch@drake.edu).

The Library’s Electronic Resources Selection Committee (ERSC) will announce the trial via e-mail to the department(s) most closely associated with the subject content of the resource. A part of this announcement will include the encouragement of feedback to the Electronic Resources Selection Committee.

After the commencement of the trial, if the Electronic Resources Selection Committee (ERSC) has received two or more positive responses, the Library will consider subscribing to the resource based on criteria listed below.

Evaluation elements taken into consideration by the Electronic Resources Selection Committee (ERSC):

1. Content suitability
   • Accuracy, authoritativeness, and completeness of database
   • Potential users; usefulness for a variety of classes and/or disciplines, anticipated volume of use
   • Subject coverage; duplication of current library resources
   • Alternative products available that might better serve users’ needs
   • Format alternatives
   • Frequency of content updating
2. Search engine and interface
   • Ease of use for patrons and library staff
   • Quality of retrieval and search engine
   • Frequency of updating of search engine, user interface updating and new searching features
   • Availability and quality of documentation
   • Treatment of graphics, formulae, and other non-standard characters
3. Vendor reliability
   • Vendor’s reliability and stability and reputation for producing quality products
   • Availability and responsiveness of technical support
4. Archiving and Preservation
   • Access to the back files of the data after the license has expired or if product is removed from market
5. Technical compatibility
   • Capacity and requirements for remote access - Password vs. IP authentication (The library will give priority consideration to those resources that can be accessed via IP authentication)
   • Requirements for Library hardware and software
   • Network compatibility
6. Licensing and other legal concerns
   • Licensing terms and restrictions
   • Number of simultaneous users or unlimited usage based on FTE
   • Remote access
7. Service Implications
   • Ease of training potential users
8. Cost and Budgetary constraints
   • Cost/value analysis
   • Availability of funds
   • Historical and potential inflation factor of the resource

Note also that the library will consider joint purchasing through grant and Departmental funds. Purchases with joint funds will require special negotiations.

At the completion of your special event in Cowles Library, please complete the following evaluation form. If you would like to discuss your comments, contact Susan Breakenridge at susan.breakenridge@drake.edu or 515-271-3994.

Using Your Online Library Account You can use your online account to view materials checked out on your account, renew materials, or to change your PIN.

 

Getting your initial PIN You will need your PIN to access the “My Account” area of the catalog. To get your initial PIN, stop by the All Services Desk with your Drake ID, email your request to the circulation mailbox , or submit your request via our form. Please note that our privacy policies do not allow us to give PIN information over the phone. Once you have your PIN, go to the Library Catalog and select the “My Account” link. You can now choose to review your account, renew materials, or change your initial PIN. Changing your PIN You may choose any combination of letters and numbers for your PIN. We strongly recommend that you do not use a secure PIN such as your banking or Drake University PIN, because Library staff and student workers will be able to see your PIN in certain screens. Reviewing your account The “review my account” screen displays all the items currently charged to your account, their due dates, and the amount of any fines you may owe. Please note that our system does not allow renewal from this screen. To get to the “renew my materials” screen, back up two screens to the screen that allows you to choose whether to review your account, renew materials, or change your initial PIN. We apologize for the inconvenience. Renewing items In the “renew my materials” screen you can choose whether to select individual items for renewal or to “renew all.” Once you have clicked the “renew selected items” button near the bottom of the screen, the new due date will display. A renewal failure message will display for any items that cannot be renewed. You can find our policies regarding renewal limits in the Library Policies section.