Library Services for Faculty
This page contains links to HSU Library services and resources important to faculty in their instruction and research.
Library Faculty by Subject Specialty - contact the librarian responsible for collection development and instruction in your curricular area.
- Reserves
- ONCORES (Online Course Reserve System) - gives an overview of ONCORES and how to submit a request for electronic delivery of reserve materials.
- How to Use Persistent Links - explains how to link to specific periodical articles in some databases, if you wish to include readings on a course syllabus.
- Book Purchase Request
- Hold Request for Materials in Processing
- New Titles - search new materials added to the HSU Library in the last four months. Limit by collection or time period; search by keyword; sort by call number, author or title.
Copyright
- Copyright Information - HSU Library guide on copyright
- Retain Certain Copyrights - links to a page from the University of California that explains what you can do as an author to retain copyright.
- SHERPA/RoMEO Publishers' Copyright Policies - provides information on copyright policies of 95 major scholarly publishers.
Current Awareness
- Multi-disciplinary
- EBSCO Alerts - establish subject search profiles in Academic Search Elite to receive daily, weekly or monthly notification of new references added to the databases that match your profile
- Highwire Press - create an table of contents alert, subject keyword alert, or a citation alert for articles that cite a specific paper for the 900 journals published by Highwire Press.
- IngentaConnect --create subject or table of contents alerts from a database of 20,000 journals.
- Social Sciences and Humanities
- CLIO Alert Profile - establish search profiles in the Historical Abstracts or America: History and Life databases to receive monthly notification of new references added to the databases that match your profile.
- CSA Alerts - set up subject profiles to receive weekly notification of new research indexed in ERIC, Physical Education Index, PyscINFO, Social Services Abstracts or Sociological Abstracts.
- EBSCO Alerts - establish subject search profiles in Communication and Mass Media Complete, ERIC, MLA Bibliography, or SportDiscus to receive daily, weekly or monthly notification of new references added to the databases that match your profile.
- Sciences - Current Awareness in the Sciences - lists current awareness sources in the sciences.
Humboldt Digital Scholar - add a digital copy of your scholarly research to Humboldt's growing collection of institutional scholarship. Increase its visibility worldwide. To learn more see What is Humboldt Digital Scholar?
Information and Media Competence
- Information Competence Program - describes instructional services available to HSU students and faculty.
- MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) - collection of freely available higher education online learning materials, peer reviews, learning assignments, and user comments that have been created to help faculty enhance their instruction. The Library and Information Services section includes many resources that can be used or adapted for instruction in information competence.
- Online Workshops for Library Skills (OWLS) - series of six tutorials developed at HSU that teach introductory college-level skills for using the Library
- Scheduling a Library Instruction Class
- Library Assignments: Tips, Samples, and Suggestions And a Few Words about Plagiarism
Information Management
- Bibliographic Database Managers - database software designed for handling bibliographic references
- EndNote
Web (HSU users only) - create a reference library by importing references
from databases,
and output references in numerous in-text citation and bibliographic styles.
Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery
- Interlibrary Loan - includes online request forms.
- CSU Catalog - search the combined CSU Catalog of all 23 libraries and request items using the built-in interlibrary loan system.
- Database links - most databases available in Articles and Databases include linking at the article level to an interlibrary loan form if the article is not available locally.
Library Media
- Video & DVD Collection - includes directions for reserving videos/DVDs for classroom instruction.
- Media Order Request Form