Information Literacy for TESU Students

How to Access ProQuest (TESU Students and Staff)

TESU subscribes to a separate instance of ProQuest Central from NJ State Library. TESU staff and students can access ProQuest from MyEdison.

• Navigate to https://my.tesu.edu or https://www2.tesu.edu/myedison/.
• Login.
• In the center towards the bottom of My Edison, there is a red tab that says My Resources. Below it are two tabs, one that says Student and one that says Educational.
• Choose the Educational tab.
• Now you’ll see links to three database research sites, including ProQuest.
• Choose ProQuest.

TESU Tech Support

NJSL does not have access to MyEdison and cannot troubleshoot login problems, please contact contact TESU Tech Support with any issues.

• 1-888-442-8372
• support@tesu.edu

NJSL Discovery indexes articles and content from multiple platforms including

• EBSCO databases
• Electronic Journals – you can also search by title here
• BioOne Complete
• CQ Press: Congress Collection, Voting & Elections Collection, CQ Magazine
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• HeinOnline
• library catalog records
• archival databases
  • NJ State Publications Digital Library (government documents)
  • Jerseyana Collection (local history)
  • Accessible Archives
  • NewsBank – Archives
• related LibGuides
• open access indices
• eBooks
  • EBSCO eBooks
  • Oxford Reference books, including the Oxford English Dictionary
  • Gale eBooks, including Making of Modern Law
  • National Consumer Law Center Digital Library eBooks
  • Peterson's Test and Career Prep study materials
  • Salem Press eBooks

EDS does not include

• These business databases: Corfacts Online, Hoovers, Mergent databases, Privco, Reference Solutions
• These legal databases: CCH AnswerConnect, Wolters Kluwer Legal Research (VitalLaw)
• historic maps: FIMO (Fire Insurance Maps) and Sanborn Maps - New Jersey
• New Jersey Legislative Histories
• HeritageQuest
• ProQuest Central (although some journal articles indexed by other databases will link to ProQuest)
• ProQuest newspapers: NY Times, Wall Street Journal, PQ New Jersey Newspapers, US Newsstream
• ProQuest government databases: Statistical Abstract of the US and PQ Congressional

What are databases?

Databases are searchable collections of journal articles, magazine articles, newspapers, reference works, and eBooks. Students search databases to find research articles and reference materials to support your academic research.  Most databases licensed by the State Library are also available to Thomas Edison State University students.

Search databases using keywords or search terms to access to scholarly, reliable full-text articles. As mentioned in Starting Your Research, content in databases runs from the very broad to the very specific, depending on the database.

I found relevant results in a database or NJSL Discovery, but why do some articles not have an access link?  How do I access these articles?

Some searches can lead to a description of an article (also known as an "abstract") without a link to access it directly.  Some databases are a mix of full text and abstracts; some are abstract-only. 

If there's an article you find only in abstract, you can request it via ILLIAD Interlibrary Loan.

ILLiad request for journal articles are usually quickly filled electronically but you can also restrict your search results to full text only, whether that's in NJSL Discovery or in a database itself. There is typically  a Full Text or Full Text Only box you can check.
 

How to limit results in Ovid Nursing Full Text Plus to full text

How to limit results in NJSL Discovery to Full Text

In Discovery, there is also a full text only option from your search results page, on the left side.