Academic Staff

On this page:

• General Information
• Research Support
• Teaching Support

General Information

• Apply for / update library privileges (including retired academic staff). Must be done before library privileges are activated. 
• Access privileges. Browse borrowing periods for physical resources and access privileges to electronic resources.
• Your library account. Log in to view/renew items.
• New faculty handout. A PDF handout summarizing library services for academic staff.
• Library support for academic staff. A video summarizing library services for academic staff.
• Library Representatives. Roles and responsibilities of library representatives.
• New to the Collection. RSS feeds by subject area.

Research Support

• Subject Librarians. Find the liaison librarian for your subject area.
• Research Assistants. How to apply for proxy privileges for your RA.
• Researching at a Distance. Visiting other libraries, and using our distance delivery service.
• Interlibrary Loans. Obtaining materials from other libraries.
• EndNote. The university subscribes to this citation manager and the Library provides instruction on how to use it.
• NVivo. The university subscribes to this qualitative research tool and the Library provides instruction on how to use it.
• OPUS Research Repository. Our Open Access institutional research repository.
• Open Access & Scholarly Publishing. A guide covering many Open Access resources including APC discounts, how to find reputable OA publications (and how to avoid the predatory ones), and more, including:
  • APC Search Tool - find which journals we have discounts for thanks to Library subscriptions and publisher agreements.
  • Open Access Policy - adopted by the UofL in 2019, encourages all UofL publications to be deposited in OPUS, our OA research repository.
• Research Data Management. All about RDM, including a link to the Data Management Planner.
• Borealis. Our institutional data repository.
• Library in-kind contributions to grant funded research. A listing of services provided by the library that may qualify as in-kind funding.
• Artificial Intelligence (AI): Information for Faculty (Research). A non-exhaustive list of resources to help you wade through the morass.
• Knowledge Mobilization & Research Impact. A guide to increasing your academic footprint.
• Pivot-RP. ORIS subscribes to this funding-finding tool, and the Library created this help guide for it.

Teaching Support

• Instruction/Tours. Ways that the Library can help you with in-class instruction, reference assistance, or library tours.
• Artificial Intelligence (AI): Information for Faculty (Teaching). A non-exhaustive list of resources to help you wade through the morass.
• Placing Materials on Reserve. How to reserve either physical or electronic materials for class use.
• Multimedia Services. A listing of the equipment and software available.
• Copyright Information. A guide to all things copyright-related.
• Persistent Links - URL Converter. A handy tool to create proxied links for off-campus access to resources.
• Teaching Centre. External link to the Teaching Centre.
• Bringing Underrepresented Scholars into the Classroom. A link to the moodle course developed by the office of Accessibility, Belonging and Community and the Teaching Centre.
• Accommodated Learning Centre. External link to the ALC.
• Open Educational Resources. A guide to finding and creating zero cost course content.