Vermont Online Library
To access resources in the Vermont Online Library; connect through your VCS Network Login.
- Click on the desktop icon that says “VOL – databases” for access to all databases EXCEPT biographical databases.
- Click on the desktop icon that says “VOL – biographical databases” for access to biographical resources.
Vermont Online Library provides access to high quality resources for student research -- from newspaper articles to encyclopedias, to scholarly and scientific journal articles -- and much more. You can find everything from discussion of contemporary issues written by experts in their fields, to statistical information, to full text access to hundreds of newspapers, magazines, and journals. These are high quality research materials that have gone through an editorial process before being published –an important difference to what you will find through your Google searches.
As you use the resources available through the Vermont Online Library, consider why it is so important to have access to these bodies of information, that go well beyond what is freely and publicly available on the Internet. Being a good and thorough researcher in this information age requires knowing how to make effective use of a wide range of information sources, and these are some of the same resources that you will have access to and be expected to use in college. The Vermont Online Library is a huge asset to research at VCS!