“From a faculty perspective, time is the most precious commodity, and the librarians have saved me many hours. The librarians are the most important interface with both the students and faculty.”
—Faculty response to library survey
Take advantage of everything the Library has to offer, from new services you may not know about to tried-and-true resources to help you succeed and save time with your research and teaching. Read on for an overview of what’s available. And, as always, check in with your library liaison.
RESEARCH SERVICES
Citation management: Get advice on software tools that retrieve and organize information into properly formatted bibliographies.
Data services: With the help of the multidisciplinary Cornell Data Services group, you can adopt best practices and different solutions for managing, storing, and sharing data.
Meet with a librarian: Schedule a research consultation with a librarian who has a background in your subject area for in-depth, customized research help. Available in person or via Zoom.
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.
Reciprocal borrowing: If you are away from campus, check ahead for access and borrowing privileges from other institutions through 2CUL (Columbia and Cornell), Borrow Direct Plus, and SHARES.
Evidence synthesis: Design and implement complex search strategies, and improve your review’s quality and reproducibility with help from library experts.
TEACHING SUPPORT
Instruction services: Build students’ research skills through in-person or virtual library instruction, or by incorporating research assignments into your syllabi.
Workshops: Boost your students’ research and technology skills by recommending library workshops. Library workshops teach research skills, digital privacy strategies, GIS, and much more.
Research help for your students: Refer your students to us for 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, and videos.
Course reserves: Make course materials easy to find by placing print and digitized items on reserve for students. You can also place requests for streaming video to be licensed for your class.
Digital scholarship: Receive support via one-on-one consultations, workshops, and classroom instruction on digital scholarship topics, including analyzing texts, images, and networks computationally; building databases; creating maps and visualizing data; and developing digital exhibits and publications.
Digitization services: Access high-end digitization for instruction and research. We also offer metadata creation and online delivery of images and other visual resources.
PUBLISHING SERVICES
Open access: Make your research publicly available in Cornell’s digital repositories such as eCommons. Untenured faculty may apply for Cornell Open Access Publication funds, which, when available, can help pay publishing fees when other sources cannot be found.
Copyright help: Before publishing, get advice from library experts on managing your intellectual property and understanding fair-use guidelines and other rules.
ORCID iDs: Turn to us to implement your Open Researcher and Contributor ID, which is increasingly required by publishers and funders and can streamline reporting, publishing, and other processes.
Research impact: Guides and services help you measure your research impact.
COLLECTION SERVICES
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.
Interlibrary borrowing: Get books, articles, and more from thousands of libraries all over the world through Interlibrary Loan and Borrow Direct.
ScanIt: Save time and effort by requesting scans of articles, manuscripts, musical scores, book chapters, and more to be emailed to you.
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: Place request for items you find when searching the library catalog to be sent to your preferred library location, including contactless pickup options.
Special collections: Explore Cornell’s historical primary sources on a universe of topics and connect with a curator in your area of interest.