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.
- Print Reserves
- ONCORES (Online Course Reserve System) - gives an overview of ONCORES and how to submit a request for electronic delivery of reserve materials.
- 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
- CSA Alerts - set up subject profiles to receive weekly notification of new research indexed in ERIC, PyscINFO, Social Services Abstracts or Sociological Abstracts.
- EBSCO Alerts - establish subject search profiles in America: History and Life, Communication and Mass Media Complete, ERIC, Family and Society Studies Worldwide, Historical Abstracts, MLA Bibliography, Philosopher's Index or SportDiscus to receive daily, weekly or monthly notification of new references added to the databases that match your profile.
- Project Muse - receive email alerts or RSS feeds for new journal issues.
- Sage Journals Online - receive email alerts when a new journal issue is published, an article of interest is cited, or an article with matching keywords to your area of interest is published.
- 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.
Information Literacy and Media Competence
- Information Literacy & Research Instruction - 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.
- Research Roadmap - 7-unit interactive tutorial for students needing an introduction to information research skills. Includes a self scoring test. Use the entire tutorial or link to individual units.
- Effective Library Assignments
- Video Research Tutorials
Information Management
- Tools to Manage References for Research and Writing - recommended "reference management programs" available to HSU students, faculty and staff that will keep track of references (citations) in support of their research efforts.
- Reference Management Software - more extensive guide to database software designed for managing bibliographic references.
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