Biological Sciences: For Faculty

Resources for Biology Students

Faculty Resources

Please let me know if you would like the library to add a book, eBook, DVD, journal, or other item to the library's collection.

As the subject librarian for the Department of Biological Sciences, I can:

Work with you to develop assignments that require scholarly or non-scholarly sources and determine which resources best fit the objectives of the assignment
Create a course page with discipline-specific resources tailored to your class assignments (see the Class Guides tab above for an example)
Embed resources into your course site
Visit your class or reserve the library's classrooms to help students find and use information sources
Help you identify open educational resources or order materials to support your courses.

Resources for Authors
Information on authors' copyrights from the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC).
Guide to SIUE SPARK (Institutional Repository)
Find information on the SIU Open Access Policy, author rights, and depositing material into the repository.
Open Educational Resources
Learn more about using and locating OERs for your courses.
Your Research Impact
Determine your impact as an author and learn how to broaden it.

Zotero
Zotero is a free citation management software that is used to collect, organize, cite and store research from all types of sources. For more information, see the Zotero library guide.