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***NOTE FOR OFF CAMPUS USERS: If you are AWAY from the Main or Fort Knox campuses and wish to use the restricted-access databases, please click on the OFF-CAMPUS USERS link next to the name of the database you wish to search. Enter your PeopleSoft (KCTCS) user ID and password. Please note that if you are using any browser other than Internet Explorer, or if you are not downloading Microsoft updates regularly, you may get a message stating that the connection or the security certificate is not trusted. If you do get this message, you can click on Continue or I Understand the Risks to get to the proxy server***

• KCTCS Student Email

• Set up KCTCS Student Email Accounts

• Class Schedules

• Student Accounts (PeopleSoft)  - class schedules, grades, tuition payments, financial aid

• BlackBoard - online course site

• Library Book Catalog (regular books located in ECTC Library)

• netLibrary (online books -  requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)*- Off-campus users

• EBSCOhost  - magazine and journal articles. Off-campus users

• Gale - magazine and journal articles. Off-campus users

• ProQuest -magazine and journal articles. Off-campus users

• NewsBank - Newspaper Articles. Off-campus users

• CQ Researcher  - current political and social issues; argumentative/position essays. Off-campus users

• Facts.com - current political and social issues. Off-campus users

• Chronicle of Higher Education - education issues. No off-campus access

• Credo Reference - reference (dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, etc). Off-campus users

• NEW! Oxford Reference Online - reference (dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, almanacs) Off-campus users

• Internet Resources - links to search engines and subject-based web site lists

• Kentucky Virtual Library (includes access to EBSCO, ProQuest and WorldCat databases)  Off-campus users

• WorldCat - global catalog of books; indicates nearby libraries that own particular books

• Writing Resources

• Magazine/Journal List (list of titles available in ECTC library - requires Acrobat Reader for viewing)

• Western Kentucky University  - Library Services for Extended Campus Students

• Interlibrary Loan Request Form

• Library Blog

• KCTCS HippoCampus - multimedia lessons and course materials to help students with instruction, homework and studies

• Heartland Review (college literary journal)

You must have your KCTCS email user ID and password in order to log on to any of the main campus library and computer lab workstations. If you have not set up your KCTCS email,  please ask at the circulation desk for instructions. If you are accessing this email off-campus, go to the following web site for email setup: http://webmail.kctcs.edu

Web site created and maintained by Laurie MacKellar. Last updated on January 29, 2009. Tree logo designed by Joy Gardner.