Course Librarian
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Reading for Graduate SchoolPurdue OWL has a great summary of strategies used to read in graduate school–if you're returning to school after a time or feeling overwhelmed by the hundreds of pages assigned every week, check this out!
Research Tools
There are a variety of tools you can use to find journal articles and other sources appropriate for your work in this course. In class, we spoke about the mysterious "grey literature." Keep in mind that grey literature is often found outside of these academic search tools and we recommend a good ol' internet search or sometimes Google Scholar. If you would like additional help finding resources for your projects, please make an appointment with your librarian.
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Web of Science This link opens in a new windowCitation database with multidisciplinary coverage of journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Indexes the journal literature and tracks article citation histories.
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Scopus This link opens in a new windowAbstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, with bibliometrics tools to track, analyze and visualize research. It contains over 22,000 titles from more than 5,000 publishers around the world, covering the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and Arts & Humanities. Scopus has 55 million records dating back to 1823, 84% of these contain references dating from 1996.
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Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowGoogle Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
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Dartmouth Libraries' Library SearchLibrary Search is a great place to start! We index nearly all of our subscribed resources as well as open source resources here. Looking for physical items in our library? Use the filters in your search to limit to "Physical Items in Library."
Feldberg Library Tools
Feldberg Library is located in Murdough 101A, connected to the first floor of the Irving Institute Atrium.
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Feldberg Library WebsiteHours, Directions to the Library, etc.
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Course Reserves for MET CoursesSee what titles are listed as reserve materials this term. Physical titles can be checked out at the Feldberg Library Front Desk during our open hours. Digital titles can be accessed online from anywhere using the Dartmouth VPN.
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Dartmouth VPNAccess most Dartmouth Resources from anywhere in the world using the Dartmouth VPN. Requires NetID SSO log-in. Please note that there are some resources that are only available on campus.
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Interlibrary Loan (ILL)Request quick access to materials not owned by Dartmouth. Login using your Dartmouth NetID credentials. Articles will be delivered in PDF format online, and physical materials can be set-up for delivery to the library of your choice on your ILL profile.
Browser Extensions
Why use browser extensions?
In short there are a number of articles & ebooks that we have access to through a platform like EBSCO, but not via the direct link to the publisher. Instead of you taking the time to use the library search to determine if access is available, LibKey Nomad++ will help to redirect you from that publisher page to the access point available through the library. Extensions help you get the information you need faster with less effort. Additionally, the extensions can redirect you to submit an interlibrary loan request for materials we do not have. Another benefit: LibKey Nomad is also directly linked to RetractionWatch, and will let you know if the article you are examining has been retracted!
Do you get frustrated when you can't get access to an article? We do! That's why we have set up LibKey Nomad to provide a link to an article's full text! Simply install the extension in your browser, and access articles from publisher websites at the click of a button. Nomad works with Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Brave, Vivaldi & Safari. LibKey is also directly linked to RetractionWatch, and will let you know if the article you are examining has been retracted! Select the "Access Options" to be directed to the catalog where you can place an interlibrary loan request.