For Faculty: Research Services

UIW:

• Faculty may borrow books for a full semester or summer term
• Audiovisual material borrowing is limited to seven days, three items at a time (multi-part titles are counted separately)
• Faculty may designate proxy borrowers (student assistants) to check out library materials on their behalf by completing a Proxy Borrowing Form
• Faculty may also borrow laptops at the circulation desk for seven days
• Electronic document delivery
  • Library staff will make a copy of an article or a small section of a physical book (less than 10% of the entire book) within the collection upon request
  • Request:
    • Use interlibrary loan service (ILLiad)
    • Within 24 hours of the request, the copy will be sent to you via email
• Pulling Library Materials
  • Library staff will pull physical resources in our collection and hold them for faculty members at the Circulation Desk
  • Request via our library catalog using the Advanced Search feature
    • Faculty must sign into their library account (My Account) using their UIW credentials
    • Conduct search, select the items they wish us to pull and click on the Request button
    • An email is sent when the items are available for pick up
    • UIW ID is required for check out

Borrowing from other libraries:

• TexShare Cards are available from the UIW Libraries Reference Desks
• Use TexShare Cards when you need something fast, it is in a participating library, and you can get there
• Use Interlibrary Loan to have something sent here from another library

• Research Consultations: Request a research consultation with a subject liaison librarian to help identify additional sources of information (including grey literature), develop search strategies, set up search alerts and manage bibliographic content.
• Citation Search Assistance: Librarians also assist faculty in learning how to determine who has cited their published works and how to identify the top journals in their disciplines.
• Program Reviews and Accreditation Reports: Librarians can assist faculty in their program review or accreditation efforts by providing information regarding the resources available in the library in their specific subject area.

The UIW Libraries subscribe to RefWorks - which means it is free for you and your students to use.

Other useful citation mangers:

If you link Google Scholar to UIW, you'll be able to use the Google Scholar interface and find links into UIW Library research databases. There is very little functionality to the search other than the Google algorithm; the only limiter is by date. Google Scholar only indexes articles that *seem* scholarly so you will still be responsible for making certain that articles are indeed peer-reviewed and scholarly.