Information Resources and Services for Faculty

Instructional Support

• Services
  • Submit Course Reserve Request
  • Request a Library Instruction Session
  • Course Bibliography Assessment Form: HTML, PDF, Word - Request materials needed for new or changed course
  • TLT Classroom Technology Services and Classroom Technology Help
  • Support for Undergraduate Research Awardees
• Resources
  • Web pages for Course-specific Information Resources
  • Library Resources for Online Learning
  • DataWorks - Software for scientific visualization, data analysis, math (requires UNR NetID login).
  • DataWorks Analysis and Visualization Lab - Software and hardware for you and your students.
  • Multimedia Center - Reserve a room in Getchell Library for group presentations or videoconferencing. Place audio or video materials on course reserve.
  • Effective Research Assignments: Guidelines for Instructors
  • Internet Detective - Helps students learn how to discern the good, the bad and the ugly for online research. This free tutorial offers practical advice on evaluating the quality of web sites.
• Excellence in Teaching Program (ETP) Library Workshops
  • The E-Library: Making the Most of E-Journals, E-Reserves, and Other E-Resources
  • Your Students are Using the Internet? What's the Problem?
• PowerPoint presentations
  • Documenting Information Sources & Avoiding Plagiarism
  • Computing, Information Technology, and Library Essentials for Graduate Students. (HTML version)

Document Delivery/Interlibrary Loan

• Link+ - A new way to get books from other libraries! FAQ
• Interlibrary Loan - Information and Policies
• Campus Express Service

Current Awareness Services

• Ingenta Alert Service
• Journal Tables of Contents
  • Elsevier ScienceDirect - Register on-campus for a username and password. Then log in and set up free volume/issue alerts. Note that Elsevier's ContentsDirect service closes on March 25, 2006. To continue receiving journal alerts, sign up for ScienceDirect.
  • SARA: Scholarly Articles Research Alerting - Taylor & Francis, Carfax, E&FN Spon, Psychology Press, Routledge
  • KLUWER ALERT - Kluwer and Plenum
• Book Alerts
  • Elsevier e-Alert for Health Science Professionals
  • Elsevier Science & Technology Books eNewsletters
• Citation Analysis: Using cited or citing resources to build bibliographies
  • Web Of Science - Science Citation Index covers 5,700 journals since 1975 and Social Sciences Citation Index covers 1,725 journals since 1975. Search by subject, author and cited reference.
  • Journal Citation Reports on the Web - Evaluation tool quantifies relationships among journals by using citation data. Measures:  impact factor, citation and article counts, journal half-life. Off-campus access error? Try this!