Services for Faculty and Graduate Students

QUICK LINKS

• Contact a Librarian that specializes in your subject area.
• View an alphabetical listing of our eJournals, eBooks, or New Books.
• Need a quick fact? Try our Online Reference page for Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Maps, & more.
• Try using a Research Guide in your subject area.

SEARCHING FOR REFERENCES ON YOUR RESEARCH TOPIC

Databases with references to journals articles, conference proceedings, and book chapters:

• Indexes and Databases - Comprehensive list of electronic databases.
• Full-Text Databases - Selected databases offering full text availability.

Library catalogs and bibliographic tools with references to books, reports, and documents:

• AUBIECat - Search Auburn University's catalog. (You can check books out for 90 days and bound journals for 1 day. Faculty may have up to 100 items, and graduate students may have up to 50 items at one time. Also, i Renew a book that you have checked out, or learn how to Recall a book that someone else has checked out.)
• Books In Print with Book Reviews- See what books are available from publishers.
• FirstGov - Find documents available through the U.S. Government Printing Office.
• WorldCat - Search several libraries catalogs at once.

OBTAINING ITEMS FOR WHICH YOU HAVE A REFERENCE

Begin by checking AUBIECat to see if AU Libraries has the book, journal, or other item that you need.

• If we DO HAVE THE ITEM that you need:
  • Use the call number that you got from AUBIECat, and locate the item within the libraries, or
  • Utilize AUBIExpress (Delivery of articles and book chapters.)
• If we DO NOT HAVE THE ITEM that you need:
  • First, try one of our unmediated delivery services:
    • Ingenta Uncover Plus (This resource is interdisciplinary in coverage and dates back to Fall 1988; it provides fax delivery of articles.)
    • EI Village 2 (formerly CompendexWeb) (Engineering and technology emphasis; 1990-present.)
  • Otherwise, complete an Interlibrary Loan request, and we will try to obtain it from another location.

CURRENT AWARENESS RESOURCES AND PREPRINT SERVERS

• Current Contents - Searchable database offering tables of contents and bibliographic data in the sciences.
• Preprint Servers - Links to several sites offering papers prior to publication elsewhere.
• Scholarly Communication and Library Collections - Information on scholarly communication and its impact on library collections.
• Ingenta Reveal Alerts - Identify up to 25 keyword/author searches and up to 50 journal titles for your user profile, and receive a weekly email with tables of contents matching your profile. This resource is interdisciplinary in subject coverage.

INSTRUCTION

• For the classes you teach:
  • E - Reserves - Put your class notes, articles, and old exams "on reserve" at the library. For more information please see Reserve Procedures.
  • Request a Course-Related Library Instruction Session
• For your research information needs:
  • Faculty & Graduate Student Seminars - Classes at the library, usually one hour long.
  • Request an Individual Library Instruction Session

OTHER LIBRARY SERVICES

• InfoQuest - Fee Based Research/Document Delivery Service offering RUSH delivery service. (Now accepting grant number or credit card number.)

• Reciprocal Faculty Borrowing Program - Traveling to another university in the near future? Find out about borrowing priviledges you might have at that institution. (Note:  service is available for faculty only.)