Your Research Impact LibGuide, created by Jamie Conklin and Therese Dickman, guides you through ways to assess and broaden the scholarly impact of your publications. This can be useful when preparing for promotion and tenure, applying for grants, and when seeking professional awards and honors.

As the subject librarian for the departments of Applied Communication Studies and Mass Communications, 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 conduct a research instruction session in one of 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.

• Faculty Resource Guide
  Information on instruction, ILL, and more.
• Your Library Account
  Renew or request books.
• Borrowing FAQ
  Information about borrowing books and more.
• Course Reserves
  How to place material on reserve.

• Resources for Authors
  Information on authors' copyrights from the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC).
• RefWorks
  RefWorks is an online research management, writing, and collaboration tool designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.
• 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.

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.