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If you are taking COM's online or Internet courses, this guide is for you! It can be difficult for Distance Education students to get to the Library so COM Library has created this guide that brings together the best resources for Distance Ed students. Go to the Guide! Features: -See real DE questions from COM students answered by COM Librarians. -Access thousands of full text articles from our databases available from the articles tab. -Access thousands of full text eBooks from our Find eBooks tab. -How to get the good stuff for your research on the Internet from the Find Internet tab. -Ask a Librarian for research help via live chat, email, text, phone or face 2 face from our Ask a Librarian tab.

Off Campus Database Access Problems We’ve recently discovered that our Distance Ed students that do not have a COM ID card with barcode are unable to log into library databases off campus. If you do have a COM ID with barcode, you should be able to logon. The College is working hard to fix this problem. Meanwhile, if you’d like to make sure, you can put it to the test. Put it to the Test Go to COM Library’s database page when you are off campus. Scroll down the page until you see EBSCO: Business Source Complete (first database listed on page) and click on it. The Remote Access to COM Library Databases page will come up, with a login box for your COM ID # and last name. If your COM ID number does not add up to 7 digits, put enough zeroes in front of the number to add up to seven. Example: 1234 would be entered 0001234. If you get into the database, you’ll know you’re good to go. If you get a page that says " Invalid COM ID - Last Name combination. Please try again," you'l...

For whatever reason we are finding that many students are somehow being left off the list that allows you to access databases off campus to do research. We are working hard to figure out where the glitch is. One problem we've noticed is that you're in such a rush to do your research, that you skipped by the info that tells you your COM ID# has to add up to 7 digits. So if your COM ID number does not add up to 7 digits, put enough zeroes in front of the number to add up to seven. Example: 1234 would be entered 0001234. Meanwhile, it might be a good idea to test off campus access ASAP so library staff can fix your access! You can test it by: Off Campus Test Select any database on the databases page when off campus. The login page will come up automatically, and you can enter your info to test it. On Campus Test Go directly to the login page and enter your info to test it. If you can't login, contact library staff from any method on the Ask A Librarian page. The info we nee...