Access articles and electronic books from the Library's subscription databases from off-campus! When you click on a database, you will be prompted for your user name (your student ID) and PIN (the two-digit month and day of your birth in MMDD format). You can also go directly to https://library.wlac.edu.
Example for student with ID number 88-123-4567 born February 25th:
User name: 881234567
PIN: 0225
ProQuest is one of our most popular databases. It covers a wide range of disciplines with content from academic journals, magazines, newspapers and more. This would be a great place to search for current events information.
Scroll to the bottom of the page to view the handout on database searching, search tips and recommended databases.
Search tips:
Filter sources to limit your search to reviews or literary criticism
Use AND to narrow your results
Ex: Humbert AND jealousy
Use OR to broaden your results
Ex: women OR girls
Use " " to search for an exact phrase
"Reading Lolita in Tehran"
Use * to retrieve forms of the word beginning with the letters before the *
Ex: adolescen* retrives adolescent, adolescence
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