Distance Education
Setting Up Accounts
You must establish an account for access to some library resources and services.
Ingenta
Ingenta is a database of more than 11 million citations from over 20,000 journals. It is an easy to use service offered by LSU Libraries as a means of expanding your access to current, scholarly research. LSU Libraries allows the ordering of articles from periodicals not owned by LSU by faculty and graduate students for research or instructional use. The cost of these orders is subsidized by the library.
For information about setting up an account click here and follow instructions under "description."
netLibrary
netLibary is a collection of almost 50,000 reference, scholarly, and professional full text electronic books (e-books) from university and commercial presses covering a variety of disciplines.
You must set up your netLibrary account from the LSU Libraries Indexes and Databases page.
(You will not be able to set up an account by clicking on the URL in an online catalog record)
- Click on netLibrary from either Frequently Used Databases or Databases by Title.
- If you are off-campus, authenticate that you are a member of the LSU community by entering either your Tiger card ID number or your Social Security number and your PIN (Personal Identification Number) is "changeme" (lowercase with no spaces) until you change it.
- Click on Create a Free Account on the upper right toolbar for a registration form.
- Follow the instructions given. (You may use any username and password that you wish.)
- You can now log in and search for the title from the netLibrary home page.
- To view a title from the online catalog, click the URL under the title and log in with the username and password you chose.
LSU Libraries patrons may check out a book for four hours at a time. Once you have done so, you may personalize information by using My List and Notes found on the upper right toolbar. E-books may be downloaded or printed a page or two at a time.
My EBSCOhost
Access to many databases is through the vendor, EBSCO. My EBSCOhost is a personal area or folder which you can use to collect information that you plan to reuse in a future EBSCO database session. You can save search results and persistent links to searches, saved searches, search alerts, journal alerts, and web pages. The items saved in your personal folder can be organized for ease of viewing, adding, deleting, or editing. You must choose the sign-in link at the top of the page to create a new account, update your account, or retrieve your user name and password. A user guide for My EBSCO host can be found at My EBSCO Databases User Guide
Interlibrary Loan (Borrowing)
Interlibrary Borrowing provides access for LSU faculty, students, and staff to materials not held by the LSU Libraries.To set up an account click on Interlibrary Loan under Services on the LSU Libraries web page.
- Click on Web Request Form under Interlibrary Borrowing
- Click on First Time Users
- Logon with your Tiger Card ID number
- Read information and complete form as requested.
(Attention Distance Education Students: You must select Mail to Address as your Preferred Article Delivery Method to receive journal articles not available in electronic format.)