“Through the library’s Summer Graduate Fellowship in Digital Humanities, I was able to meet with librarians who not only helped me with my work but also pointed me in new and interesting directions. This project would not be where it’s at without the assistance of Cornell librarians.”
—Ph.D. candidate
Take advantage of everything Cornell University Library has to offer, from networking opportunities and time-saving research help, to training in the tools of 21st-century scholarship.
EXPERTISE WHEN YOU NEED IT
Ask a librarian: Craft faster and more effective searches, locate hard-to-find sources, learn about library resources, and much more in person, via phone, email, or 24/7 chat.
Meet with a Librarian: Schedule a research consultation with a librarian in your subject area for in-depth, customized research help. Available in person or via Zoom.
Copyright help: Before publishing, get advice from library experts on managing your intellectual property and understanding fair-use guidelines and other rules
Data management: Learn best practices and different solutions for managing, storing, and sharing data with the help of the multidisciplinary Research Data Management Service Group, which provides support at any stage of the research process.
Evidence synthesis: Answer new research questions by building search strategies and performing comprehensive syntheses of existing studies, with the help of librarians who are experts in systematic reviews.
GIS help: Get help finding geospatial data, making maps, and analyzing data using tools such as QGIS, ArcGIS, and Carto.
Privacy services: Safeguard your intellectual freedom by understanding the digital privacy landscape and learn concrete strategies to assess your risk and increase your digital privacy.
TOOLS FOR RESEARCH AND PUBLISHING
Citation management: Get personalized help with supported software such as Endnote, Mendeley, and Zotero to organize citations and PDFs and create bibliographies for your papers.
Open access: Learn about support for open access scholarship at the Library and apply for Cornell Open Access Publication funds, which, when available, can help pay publishing fees when other sources cannot be found.
ORCID iDs: Implement your Open Researcher and Contributor ID, increasingly required by publishers and funders.
Digital Scholarship: Receive support with digital scholarship projects, including analyzing texts, images, and networks computationally; building databases; creating maps and visualizing data; and developing digital exhibits and publications. Join our digital scholarship mailing list to keep up with events, networking sessions, and learning opportunities.
TEACHING SUPPORT
Instruction services: Build your students’ research skills through library instruction or by incorporating research assignments into your syllabi.
Workshops: Boost your students’ research and computer-application skills by recommending library workshops.
Recommend research help for your students: We offer fast, expert advice, including 24/7 chats with librarians, online guides, and one-on-one consultations.
Guides and tutorials: Teach your students to research more efficiently with course-specific online research guides, tutorials, or videos.
Course reserves: Make course materials easy to find by placing items on reserve for students. You can place requests for textbooks and streaming video to be licensed for your class.
COLLECTIONS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS
Collections and databases: Use millions of books and articles, both online and in print, as well as archival collections in a wide array of fields.
Off-campus access: Install Access Anywhere to use when you connect to the Library’s databases, e-journals, and e-books that would otherwise be restricted or hidden behind paywalls. anywhere.library.cornell.edu
Convenient pickup: Search the library catalog from the comfort of your home or office and request physical items be sent to your preferred library location.
ScanIt: Save time and effort by requesting scans of articles, manuscripts, musical scores, book chapters, and more to be emailed to you.
Interlibrary borrowing: Get books, articles, and more from thousands of libraries all over the world through Interlibrary Loan and Borrow Direct.
Virtual browsing: Browse items that share a topic by using the library catalog’s virtual shelf browse feature, or by browsing call numbers by list. These features will show not only similar volumes across all of our libraries, but also similar digital items.
Reciprocal Borrowing: If you are away from campus doing research check ahead for library access and borrowing privileges from other institutions including Columbia Library, Borrow Direct Plus, and other libraries via SHARES.
Special collections: Explore Cornell’s historical primary sources on a universe of topics and connect with a curator in your area of interest.
SKILLS FOR GRAD SCHOOL AND BEYOND
Graduate student programs: Gain a host of digital research skills through intensive multi-day library workshops.
Workshops: Library workshops teach research skills, digital privacy strategies, citation management, GIS and much more.
Guides and tutorials: Use an extensive menu of discipline-specific online research guides, tutorials, and instructional videos.
Digital CoLab: Learn new tools and forge innovative, cross-boundary collaborations through the Digital CoLab, a co-learning space dedicated to digital scholarship, such as computational text analysis, data visualization, crowdsourcing research, and more.
COMMUNITY & COLLABORATION
Library spaces: Find areas for quiet study or enjoy a sense of community in collaborative spaces, including graduate student-only study rooms and individual carrels.
Library events: Network with colleagues, faculty, and students at a host of library events including book talks and exhibits.
Social media: Follow us on our social media channels to stay up-to-date on our latest offerings.