Resources

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Popular OhioLINK Databases
OhioLINK offers a wide variety of databases. In order to speed up your research, our Reference Department has selected a smaller subset of those databases that tend to be most used by Rio students.
PsycINFO
PsycINFO is an electronic bibliographic database providing abstracts and citations to the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences. The database includes material of relevance to psychologists and professionals in related fields such as psychiatry, management, business, education, social science, neuroscience, law, medicine, and social work.  Users will be prompted to authenticate using their name, student ID number (e.g., s123456789) and PIN to access when off-campus.
Guides
Links to various “Guides” are provided. These are subject-oriented, self-help bibliographies prepared by the Reference staff, which will get you started on your research. They are provided as PDF (Portable Document Format) files. (To view or print a PDF file, you will need Adobe’s Acrobat Reader. If you do not have Acrobat Reader on your computer, you can download the current version for free from Adobe by clicking here.  See also the link “LibGuides (Research Guides)” for additional online guides and pathfinders.
Digital Resource Commons (OhioLINK)
The OhioLINK Digital Resource Commons is a network of centrally hosted institutional repositories featuring local branding, remote submission and administration, and federated searching. The DRC enables Ohio colleges and universities to save, discover and share all types and formats of digital materials.
ERIC Documents

ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) offers all ED Documents (reports, speeches, guides, studies, etc.) from 1993 to the present free and online. Online access to ERIC is also provided through OhioLINK.

WorldCat
WorldCat is the OCLC union catalog, containing more than 43 million records describing books and other items owned by libraries around the world. Each record contains library holdings. WorldCat covers thousands of subjects and includes records for items as far back as 1000 B.C. Materials covered in the catalog include: books, internet resources, computer data files, computer programs, films, journals, magazines, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, newspapers, slides, sound recordings, and videotapes. WorldCat does not include individual article titles or stories in journals, magazines, newspapers, or book chapters.
U. S. Census Bureau
U. S. Census Bureau offers a wide range of United States Census data accessible through a variety of data access tools.  Very useful for sociological, economics and business research.