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September 2[edit]

How to use Ebscohost Connection?[edit]

In my searches for references, I've occasionally come across articles listed on Ebscohost Connection. I'm not familiar with this website and have been struggling to understand it. I believe that I managed to access an article through the site once, but that was a couple of years ago - I don't remember what I did at the time. My recent attempts to access anything through the site have proved futile. I put a lot of effort into it a couple of months ago and just ended up confused and frustrated. I just tried again today and this is what has happened:

Here's the page that I was working from [1]

I clicked on the blue flag-like box that says, "Read the article courtesy of your local library"

This opens a green box

I enter my zipcode to search by location

I select a library in my local area - it isn't the library that I usually go to, but my card should still be valid there

I enter my library card number

I get a message saying, "Thank You! You will now be redirected to EBSCOhost to read the full text: The Bros. Runt courtesy of Fairfax County Public Library. If you are not automatically redirected, click here to go to the full text."

I am then taken to a login page, where it asks for a User ID and Password

I don't think that I actually got this far when I tried a few months ago. But I'm not sure what login information the site is looking for. Do I need to set up an account with EBSCOhost? If so, how do I do that? I don't see an option for creating an account. --Jpcase (talk) 17:27, 2 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm in the UK but I've always found it best to access EBSCOHost via the library website itself as it uses a different logon form. From your example - the Fairfax link is here which takes you to this login page. Nanonic (talk) 19:18, 2 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I was able to log in through that link. However, I remember getting to this point before, when I tried a few months ago. I can't figure out how to use the search option from this point. For example, I'm interested in finding articles about the television series Ed, Edd n Eddy and have been able to find many on EBSCOhost through the area of the site that I linked to above. When I go through the login page that you provided though, and search Ed, Edd n Eddy, I only get five results - none of them having to do with the show. Any thoughts? --Jpcase (talk) 19:40, 2 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

EBSCO is the provider, but not all libraries have equal access to all titles that EBSCO has. Some libraries choose specialist databases that are relatively narrow (technical papers, journals, etc.) Others are more generalist. Could be that you bumped into this and that's why you aren't seeing many results. Mingmingla (talk) 21:44, 3 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Mingmingla: That would make sense. But how can I see which libraries carry a certain article? --Jpcase (talk) 21:49, 3 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You can't, really. Mingmingla (talk) 17:14, 4 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm...well that's inconvenient. --Jpcase (talk) 17:19, 4 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

3rd meter line violation in volleyball[edit]

Why in some moments players aren't allowed to cross the 3rd meter line and the point goes to the opponent team?--93.174.25.12 (talk) 18:42, 2 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia has an article titled Volleyball which does cover the rules. The restrictions as to which players may cross the 3-meter line are covered in that article; near as I can tell, it depends on which players start in the back-court before the serve; there's also a player called the "libero" that has restrictions on how and when they can hit the ball. --Jayron32 19:05, 2 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not to the point. Moving right along. Drmies (talk)

The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.

We played volleyball long before meters even existed. Is tis some sort of europeanism? μηδείς (talk) 19:46, 2 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Vollyball: 1895. Metre (note spelling): 1793. Don't be silly. Welcome to the rest of the world. 82.21.7.184 (talk) 22:36, 2 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Volleyball as we know it was invented in the 1890s, and the court was originally measured in feet, somewhat smaller than today's dimensions. Current dimensions are almost 60 x 30, which means they probably fudged it to make it work out to whole numbers of meters. Not so with the height of the net, though, which is still exactly 8 feet for men and 7'4" for women. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 21:28, 2 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"The playing court is a rectangle measuring 18 x 9 m, surrounded by a free zone which is a minimum of 3 m wide on all sides...Placed vertically over the centre line there is a net whose top is set at the height of 2.43 m for men and 2.24 m for women."Official Volleyball Rules of the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (International Federation of Volleyball), founded 1947 in Switzerland. To measure pitches for international games in the quaint units that the long-decayed empire of Queen Victoria enacted in the 19th century would be only a sop to mollify such nations as Burma, Liberia and US. 84.209.89.214 (talk) 21:39, 2 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]