You can easily access the online library catalog, which contains records for items at UIUC from your home or office. By placing an online request, you can have books mailed directly to your office. Books can be checked out for sixteen weeks and renewed online or by telephone (333-8400). The library has developed online tutorials to help you find materials.
You can also easily access online materials from home, including your favorite professional journals. By entering the proxy server through the ORR, you will be recognized as affiliated with the University. Many databases now provide full-text materials, and there are instructions available on how to find a specific article.
Can't find it on campus or in I-Share Online? A world of other opportunities exists through Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery. Online forms are provided to request research materials that are not available through I-Share Online. Instructions are available on how to locate materials not available at UIUC.
Tired of going from place to place to photocopy materials? Try the low-cost, on-campus UIUC Doc Express Service. The Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery department provides a convenient fee-based photocopy service at $3.00 per article for journal articles located on the University of Illinois campus. Documents are supplied within 48 hours of request, and payment is taken through a departmental account or credit card. Don't forget that a large body of materials is also available online in full-text.
Located on the second floor of the Main Library, the Information Desk (333-2290) provides directional assistance, gives information and instruction on electronic resources, and answers quick reference questions. Reference librarians are available in the Reference Room (200 Main Library) and the departmental libraries to provide research assistance and help you navigate the Library's electronic resources and the Internet. You also can tap into information and reference services through e-mail or live text chat through our Ask a Librarian service.
Many departmental libraries maintain reserve collections for their patrons. Please contact the
staff at the
departmental
library where you wish your materials to reside to place print materials on reserve.
All electronic reserves are processed by the Information Processing & Management unit of
the Undergraduate Library. Additional information for faculty/instructors can be found online in
our
E-Reserve FAQ.
Forms and procedures for placing materials on reserve through the Undergraduate Library are
available.
If you have questions or comments about reserves, please contact the
Undergraduate Library.
We are here to help you teach! Request assistance in designing and testing library assignments, using library resources in the classroom, and creating class-related bibliographies. You can schedule instructional sessions that are designed specifically for your class, covering areas such as library research strategies, critical thinking skills, and information literacy. Contact your departmental library for details on what instructional services they provide or contact Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction.
Requesting library sessions for your class, what library instruction can do for your class, putting materials on reserve, detecting and preventing plagiarism in the classroom and strategies for creating effective library assignments.
Librarians have many tools, tips, and strategies to assist you and your students. This page includes library resources you can link into your course management system.
How to conduct searches, look up your account information, and more.
Departmental libraries create webpages that provide instructional resources for students and instructors including research guides, subject guides, database guides, and class guides. A subject guide might consist of an annotated bibliography on a particular topic or it might be a detailed list of library resources for a specific topic. Search by topic A-Z.
Many librarians create webpages for course-integrated instruction for their students to access as preparation for the instruction session or as a supplement to the in-person instruction. The resources are organized by course name and number.
Research guides on general library resources and tools including biographical resources, book reviews, dissertations, and more.
Find the departmental library that serves your discipline.
Need help finding or downloading statistical and spatial data? Dawn-Owens Nicholson (Data Archivist, ATLAS) and librarians with a wide range of expertise will be available to help you locate relevant data sets in opinion polls, election studies, social surveys, census, education, and health data and prepare them for analysis in SPSS, SAS, STATA and ArcGIS.
Subject specialist librarians are here to help you with your research. There are myriad ways for us to help you including through online chat, email, phone, in-person drop in, and by appointment.
First, read this introductory page describing what current awareness services can do for you! There are two avenues you might want to follow if you are interested in these services. You can contact the departmental library for your subject area to see what is offered, or, if you use OVID or CSA databases, you might want to set up your own account. Try the do-it-yourself instructions.
RefWorks is a personal citation management and formatting software tool. It can help you take the tedium out of reference tracking. Access your personal citation database from anywhere and insert citations directly into Microsoft Word using the Write N Cite feature. For more information on this service brought to you free of charge by the University Library and CITES, please visit the online tutorial.
The library has many citation style manuals available online, e.g. Chicago Manual of Style. If you need assistance with citation styles, you can contact Ask a Librarian.
Library Carrels are available for faculty and students through the Circulation department.
University of Illinois faculty often donate personal collections to the University Library.
The library has created this guide to common copyright issues. If you have any further questions, please contact our Ask a Librarian service.
Provides information about managing your intellectual property including details about the cost of journals, academic promotion issues, new publishing models, as well as recommendations for what you can do.
Outline of copyright law in the United States.
The University of Illinois' policies on copyright.
A library guide that culminates policies and procedures at University of Illinois for maintaining and upholding academic integrity in teaching and research. Also provides a definition of plagiarism and tutorials for students and instructors on what to do about plagiarism.
The Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (IDEALS) is a digital repository that serves as a permanent and secure online home for work produced by University of Illinois faculty and scholars. You can make your work publicly available; look into depositing your work.
Forms and information from the Institutional Review Board for the protection of human subjects.
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