Graduate Students

Be sure to keep up with what's going on at the Research Commons—programming specifically for grad students:

• Research Commons Events
• Graduate Workshop Recordings

Your Research

• Ask your subject librarian
  Your subject librarian can help you by providing research advice, purchasing material you need and more.
• Use your subject research guide
  Librarian recommended research resources & tips for your subject area.
• ProQuest dissertations & theses UW Restricted
  Search for dissertations written nationwide (plus some international); includes more than a million full text dissertations.
• Alert Services
  Keep up with research in your field.
• Data Services
  Guide to information & resources for finding & visualizing data.
• Borrowing & Access for Graduate Students
  Borrowing and access privileges and services.
• Interlibrary Loan & Document Delivery Service
  Get materials from other libraries.
• Purchase Request Form
  Suggest that the UW Libraries purchases a specific book or other material.

Writing & Publishing

• Citation Management
  Refworks, Endnote, Zotero and more.
• Digital Scholarship
  Examples of digital scholarship at the UW and where to get assistance with any phase of your project.
• Journal Citation Reports UW Restricted
  Citation data and impact factor for science/technology and social science journals.
• Research Works
  Publish and archive your research while maintaining your copyright.
• Scholarly Publishing
  Overview of issues: copyright, author rights and more.
• Theses/Dissertations
  Information on submitting your thesis or dissertation to the Graduate School.

Teaching

• Instructor Toolkit
  Course-related teaching links and tools.
• Teach with your subject librarian
  Your librarian can provide library instruction and/or create a class-specific research guide.
• Set up course reserves
  Place print & online materials on reserve for your class.
• Streaming Audio & Video
  Request audio/video streaming for your class.
• Scheduling Media for a class
  Reserve media to show in class or place media on reserve.
• Request an instruction session
  Request a library instruction session for your class.
• Active Learning Classrooms (ALC)
  Reserve one of the classrooms in Odegaard Undergraduate Library.
• Reserve a space in the Research Commons
  Reserve a space to meet with your students one on one or in small groups.

Funding

• Graduate Funding Information Service (GFIS)
  Advice & resources for identifying and locating funding for graduate school-related expenses.
• Scival UW Restricted
  An expertise profiling and research networking tool with publication histories of UW faculty.
• Grant Forward UW Restricted
  Database of funding opportunities.
• Additional Funding Resources
  GFIS guide to funding resources.

Spaces

• Research Commons
  Collaboration & presentation space with bookable group study rooms plus workshops and services for grad students.
• Request Suzzallo Library Carrels & Scholar Study Rooms
  Reserve space in Suzzallo and Allen Library on a quarterly basis.
• Suzzallo and Allen Libraries study spaces
  Photos and descriptions of study spaces in Suzzallo and Allen Libraries.
• Reserve a Group Study Room
  Reservable spaces and equipment in UW Libraries.
• Spacescout
  Find available study space on the Seattle and Tacoma campuses