Find the departmental library that serves your discipline.
Quick and easy library guides and tutorials that will help you locate books, online journals, course reserves and more.
Can't find it on campus or in I-Share Online? 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 Illinois.
Dictionaries, encyclopedias and other quick fact sources.
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.
How to obtain proxy authorization, charge departmental accounts for library copying, and more.
Attend a library tour either in person or virtually.
Hands-on learning designed for you through library workshops.
You can renew online through MyAccount, through the Central Access Services at 217-333-8400, or in person at any circulation desk.
While borrowers cannot initiate recalls online, they may request to have an Illinois item recalled from another borrower by inquiring at any library public service point or by calling Central Access Services at 217-333-8400. Library staff can only recall an Illinois item from another borrower if there are no other available copies anywhere in the statewide online catalog. Items owned by other I-Share Libraries cannot be recalled without prior permission of the owning library.
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, please visit the online tutorial.
If you have purchased your own license to EndNote, here are the connections files and guides provided by the library.
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.
Are you interested in taking a library workshop on current awareness tools?
Library Carrels are available for faculty and students through Central Access Services.
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 and by appointment. We are here to help you with everything from starting your research project to complicated citation verifications for PhD candidates.
Search over 9,000 active federal and private funding opportunities across disciplines.
Illinois financial aid resources, including fellowships and assistantships.
Search across more than half a million grant opportunities as well as program descriptions, application guidelines and contact information.
Finding and applying for scholarships.
Are you wondering what the fuss is about open access? The movement for open access to publications - that is, publications that are freely and openly available to anyone to access - has been steadily gaining momentum. With the National Institute of Health's open access policy as well as those at Harvard and MIT, it is important to understand the different forms of open access that are available. Come to this workshop to learn about open access journals as well as self-archiving your work into a repository such as Illinois' IDEALS. Please register by clicking on your date preference.
You're going to be published - congratulations! Did you know that you own the copyright on your work until you transfer copyright to a publisher? Did you know you need to retain rights in order to include an article or reuse a chart in your dissertation or thesis or make your work openly available on the web? Come to this session and learn about what your rights as an author are and how to negotiate with publishers for the rights that you need to retain. Please register by clicking on your date preference.
You're writing a thesis or preparing to teach your course, but you have a lot of concerns about being ethical and abiding by copyright law. Come to this session and learn the basics of copyright law and some guidelines for how you can stay within the law using the four principles of Fair Use. Please remember that librarians cannot give you advice regarding copyright issues, but we can steer you in the right direction to find answers to your questions. Please register by clicking on your date preference.
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 as well as 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.
Assists University of Illinois graduate students with decision making and planning for career paths both within and beyond the academy.
A library database that provides a comprehensive list of Calls for Papers issued by professional bodies, journal editors and other conference organizers in all disciplines.
How to look for an academic job: the application process and information on preparing supporting materials such as a teaching philosophy and curriculum vitae. (eBook)
Building
a Great Résumé: For Job Hunters, Career Changers, Consultants, and FreelancersHow to create a résumé that will get the attention of potential employers. (eBook)
Interviewing
and Salary Negotiation: For Job Hunters, Career Changers, Consultants, and FreelancersHow to be a better interviewer and negotiator in your first job and beyond. (eBook)
The
Perfect Interview: How to Get the Job You Really WantProvides tips for presenting yourself and your skills in the best possible way in a job interview. (eBook)
Gives tips on resume building. (eBook)
With direct links to the online catalog, here are some great books to break that writer's block!
Discusses how to successfully complete and defend a thesis or dissertation. (eBook)
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.
This guide will help you to locate dissertations written at the University of Illinois, dissertations written at other universities, how to borrow a dissertation as well as how to keep track of dissertations in your field using RSS feeds.
Library database that provides dissertation citations back to 1861, abstracts back to 1980, and the full text of many dissertations from 1997 to present, including some Masters theses.If you need help finding dissertations, check out the library tutorial Finding Dissertations.
The University of Illinois' information to graduate students on depositing a thesis or dissertation.
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Last modified by: Merinda Hensley on 11/19/09