For Your Research

To ask that the library purchase a specific title, use the book purchase request form or contact the librarian below:

• Education: Colleen Boff
• Languages, literature and cultural studies: Nancy Down
• Music: Patty Falk
• Biological sciences, communication sciences & disorders, HMSLS, psychology, public & allied health, and the School of Earth, Environment & Society: Edith Scarletto
  
• All other subject areas: Julie Rabine

The Center for Research Libraries, located in Chicago, acquires and preserves materials for research and teaching. You can find and request CRL materials through the OhioLINK catalog.

Our Data Sources LibGuide contains resources for locating data sets that are freely available or openly accessible. It also includes information about text mining and how to create data management plans.

Located on the 8th floor of Jerome Library, the Ramona Cormier Faculty Reading Room is a quiet work room for faculty and graduate student use only. The room, a multi-user room for individual work, is equipped with a desktop computer and has wireless capabilities for laptop use. A key may be checked out from the main circulation desk in the Jerome Library. Questions regarding the use of the Cormier Reading Room can be answered at the Circulation Desk.

The Journal Citation Reports online database uses citation and article counts to determine the most frequently cited and highest impact journals in an academic field or discipline. Our subscription contains data back to 2004.

The JournalPass bookmarklet will prompt you to authenticate with your BGSU login so that you can read journal articles online that require a subscription. It works with all four major browsers.

The Web of Science Group Master Journal List & Manuscript Matcher allows you to quickly view information about the extensive list of journals indexed in databases on the Web of Science platform, including Web of Science itself. As the organization that assigns impact factors, Web of Science maintains detailed information about articles published in thousands of high-quality academic journals.

One feature of the database is its ability to suggest journals that might be a good vehicle in which to publish your research. To use this feature, go to the link above and click on the button that says “Match Manuscript” (about halfway down the page). You will be prompted to sign in with your Endnote account – if you don’t have one, you can create one for free. Next, copy and paste your article title and abstract into the search boxes. You can filter results by categories such as language, frequency, and open access status. You will be able to view the impact factor of each title and link to its homepage and submission guidelines.

The Authorized Borrower Form allows an individual you identify to borrow books, place holds, and pick up OhioLINK and ILL materials on your behalf.

The authorized borrower will present their own ID and tell the library staff member that they need to borrow the materials on your account. An OhioLINK book can only be borrowed on the account from which the request was made.

Our Special Collections also offer services to enhance your teaching.

• Browne Popular Culture Library: Services
• Center for Archival Collections: Faculty & Curriculum Support
• Curriculum Resources Center: Services
• Music Library: Services

Learn all about citation metrics using our Who's Citing Me? LibGuide. It will also show you how to do cited reference searching in Web of Science, Google Scholar, and other sources.