Use the OCC Catalog to find books and articles in the library:
Use search operators to expand or narrow your search results:
AND
The Boolean operator AND tells a search engine that you want to find information about two (or more) search terms.
OR
The Boolean operator OR tells the search engine that you want to find information about either search term you've entered. This will broaden your search results because the search engine will bring back any results that have either search term in them.
NOT
The Boolean operator NOT tells the search engine that you want to find information about the first search term, but nothing about the second term.
Phrase Searching:
Put quotation marks " " around a search term to let the search engine know you are looking for results on this exact phrase. This is helpful when you are searching for phrases that contain two or more common words like "skin cancer". If you were to search for skin cancer without the quotation marks, you will get results that will contain the phrase skin cancer, OR skin, OR cancer and will need to search through many more results to find materials that are relevant to your research
To access a whole list of our subject databases, please visit the Library Services tab on your Ocean Connect page.
The OCC Library has many different research guides that contain subject specific resources, databases, and other helping aids to assist you in your research. Please see our list of available research guides here: https://ocean.libguides.com/
Ocean County College Library provides Interlibrary Loan Services for OCC faculty, staff, and students. Interlibrary Loan (ILL) offers patrons access to materials from thousands of public and academic libraries across the country. If you are searching for an item and the OCC Library does not have it, you may request the item through our ILL service.
Transit times: Physical Materials: 1-2 Weeks Digital Materials: Less than 1 week
*Most of the time we can obtain requested items – books and articles have the highest success rate – but in some instances (a rare book for example) it may not be possible. Most institutions do not lend reference books, textbooks, microfilm, or archival materials. Some libraries will lend media such as CDs and DVDs.