• 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.

As the subject librarian, 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.

We provide FREE consultations with a professional reference librarian who will help you with your research. This service is available to individuals and to small groups.

The reference librarian will help you: 

• Develop a search strategy.

• Find a topic for your research assignment.

• Select appropriate electronic resources and reference materials.

If you're stuck, don't wait - schedule a consultation today! Appointments are subject to librarian availability.