Library Services for Graduate Students
This page contains links to HSU Library services of special interest to graduate students.
Library Faculty by Subject Specialty - librarians are available by appointment for individual consultation on your information research needs.
Circulation - the loan period for graduate students is one semester (through the end of the current semester), except for certain categories of materials that have limited loan periods (CD's, maps, periodicals, etc.).
Current Awareness - use the following services to receive automatic notification of new publications in your area of interest. In almost all cases you first need to establish a user profile with the service.
- 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.
Guides to Graduate Study - the HSU Library has many guides to graduate study in specific disciplines. Search the HSU Library Catalog under the following subjects--Dissertations, Academic; Dissertations, Academic--Handbooks; Research--Methodology; and [Name of Discipline]--Research Methodology, e.g., Psychology--Research Methodology
HSU Theses - search option in the Library Catalog that searches over 3,300 theses produced at HSU since 1950. You can browse by degree and/or enter a subject or title keyword or phrase, author or year. Results can be sorted by author, title or year.
Information Management
- Bibliographic Database Managers - lists software programs designed for creating and manipulating databases of 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.
See Using
EndNote Web at HSU for additional information.
Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery
- Interlibrary Loan - complete online forms to initiate requests for materials available at other libraries.
- 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.
Humboldt Digital Scholar - add a digital copy of your completed thesis to Humboldt's growing collection of institutional scholarship. Increase its visibility worldwide. To learn more see What is Humboldt Digital Scholar?