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  • Academic OneFile (Gale) Best Bet Featured

    Academic OneFile provides access to nearly 14,000 academic and scholarly journals, periodicals, newspapers, reference books, and multimedia sources, along with over 200,000 images, 3,300 audio files, and thousands of videos. Easily view content of interest, find content on nearly any subject including physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, and literature.

  • Academic Search Premier (BadgerLink) Best Bet Featured

    Scholarly and professional articles in nearly every field including computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language & linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences and psychology.

  • eBook Central Career and Technical Education Collection (ProQuest) Best Bet Featured

    Read entire books and textbooks online for a wide range of career and technical education subject areas and some classic fiction. You can add favorites to your Bookshelf, search within texts to find the key terms you need, and highlight the text. You can also download or print out individual pages or chapters.

  • Kanopy Best Bet

    Award-winning documentaries, training films covering wide range of academic topics and includes feature films. Using the "Browse" function allows you to search by career and subject area.

  • Libby/OverDrive eBook Collection (WISCAL) Best Bet Featured

    Libby/Overdrive Academic eBook collection has popular fiction, self-help and career guide books and audiobooks. You can borrow them in the Libby app or in your internet browser like a regular library book. 
    To read eBooks/listen to audiobooks, sign in:

    Click on Sign In
    Select Library: Blackhawk Technical College
    Card Number: your student/staff 9-digit ID number. 
    Use the free mobile Libby apps for both iPhones, Google, and smart phones, but the best viewing can also be done by reading in the browser screen. Any bookmarks, notes, etc. will be saved for the next time you login to read a borrowed book.

  • New York Times Best Bet
    To activate, create an account with your BTC email address.

    Explore breaking news, multimedia, opinion, business, & more.
  • Scientific & Medical Art (SMART) Imagebase Best Bet Featured

    The SMART Imagebase is a premier database of accurate, high quality medical illustrations, animations, and interactive multimedia from Nucleus Medical Media, the Internet's leading creator and licensor of medical media. The collection contains thousands of proprietary, copyrighted images depicting normal anatomy, physiology, embryology, and histology, as well as the Web's largest repository of reference illustrations depicting surgery, trauma, pathology, diseases and conditions. The SMART Imagebase is a unique, educational resource for students, educators, library patrons, and professionals in healthcare and news media.

  • Statista Best Bet Featured
    Statista.com consolidates statistical data on over 80,000 topics from more than 22,500 sources and is a combined provider of market research as well as research and analysis services. You can even import an infographic into your own presentation right from the site.

BTC ID Number: Use Online Databases

How do I access online library resources? What is my BTC ID Number?

Access articles, eBooks, and streaming videos and more off-campus. 


Answer

As a Blackhawk Technical College student, faculty or staff member, you have free access to thousands of online library resources on or off campus.

  • When accessing library databases, or logging into your Encore Library Account you will need your 9-digit Blackhawk ID number when prompted.
  • Your ID number is included on the back of your BTC ID card and in the MyBTC Portal in your profile, look for "School ID" 

login screen with. Enter 9 digit student id number in form field