Beginning January 17, 2023, Librarian Chat is available 24/7; you may get assistance from a librarian at a different school & a SCC librarian may follow up via email. SCC LIBRARIAN HOURS:
M • 10 am to 9 pm
T • 10 am to 7 pm
W • 10 am to 7 pm
TH • 10 am to 7 pm
F • 10 am to 1 pm
S • N/A
Sun. • 1 pm to 6 pm
Outside of the above hours, e-ref chat is available and will be staffed by non-Solano College librarians. If your question requires a Solano College librarian, please email scclibrary@solano.edu and one of us will respond within 24 hours.
When the chat session ends, you can request that a transcript of the chat be emailed to you.
Want to learn more about an author, the time and place a work of literature was written, or when it is set? These resources can help you get started. Search using the author's name to find biographies.
A great place to begin your research process: to narrow your topic, get background information and to gather keywords. Encyclopedias and reference books are not generally used as cited sources in college-level research papers (usually you'll need to take what you find in an encyclopedia and head out to the databases for more advanced sources).
Subject coverage includes: art, biography, business, education, environment, history, information and publishing, law, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, nation and world, religion, science, social science, and technology.
Use the library catalog to find printed books, including course reserves aka textbooks, at Solano College and our partner libraries (Napa Public libraries and Napa Valley College).
A full-text ebook collection with over 150,000 titles from leading university presses and general interest publishers, in a broad array of subject coverage.
An expansive collection of author biographies, plot summaries and full-text essays from leading publishers. Includes literary reference books and monographs, full text for literary magazines and book reviews, poems from hundreds of sources, short stories, classic texts, author interviews and much more.
This full-text database covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. With hundreds of full-text journals and books, this database is a key reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history.
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