LibGuides: Faculty & Staff Resources: Research Resources

Interlibrary Loan

Interlibrary Loan is provided for current Butler University students, faculty, emeriti faculty and staff to obtain materials NOT owned by Butler University Libraries from other libraries or commercial document suppliers in the continental United States. The Interlibrary Loan office is NOT a document delivery or photocopying service for students, staff, or faculty.

Before you submit an Interlibrary Loan request, you must:

Check the Butler Online Catalog for the book or journal title.
For articles, check Journals A-Z to see if the article is already available full text.

Login to ILLiad, our InterLibrary Loan system

to submit requests
to check the status of your requests
to retrieve articles
to request renewals for Interlibrary Loans
Note: If you have any questions, please contact:

Irwin Library: Sarah Damery, 940-9677, sdamery@butler.edu
Science Library: Barb Howes, 940-9401, bhowes@butler.edu

Ordering Materials

Before requesting titles to be purchased, please ensure that your request falls within our Collection Development policy [pdf].

To request that specific books, DVDs, and other materials be ordered for the collections, please email your requests to your Subject Liaison. Your liaison will most likely be forwarding on your email or reentering the information in a separate library ordering system, so please avoid sending us catalogs with items circled if possible.

Databases, Journals & Research Tools

Butler Databases (Alphabetical List)
An alphabetical list of all Butler databases.
Butler Databases (By Subject)
Browse our databases by subject list to find other subject areas related to gender, communication, business, education, political science, history, etc.

Journals A-Z
Trying to track down an article? Journals A-Z will show you whether we own the journal, what years we have access to, and give you links into the databases that provide full-text. Search by journal title.

BrowZine
Easy browsing and reading of current issues of your favorite journals. Save content for later and access from any device. No new account required -- just login with your Butler credentials.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals.

DiRT Directory: Digital Research Tools
A registry of tools for researchers in the digital arts and humanities. Lists over 800 resources across 32 categories including bibliographic management, annotations, publishing, search, text mining, and visualization.

Reading eBooks

Did you know that you can read eBooks on your tablet or Kindle?

Check out our step-by-step guides for each of our eBook providers!

Citation Management

There are a number of products available that offer different feature sets. We are happy to assist you with getting started with any of these products and have created a comparison chart for the most popular to help you select one.

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Want to be notified when a new issue of your favorite journal is released? Interested in finding out what's being published on a particular topic? Our databases offer a number of different ways to be alerted when content that's interesting to you is available! We have a guide to help you FOLLOW THE LITERATURE.

Data Management

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CLICK HERE

Image Attributions

Header image attributions, left to right:

books-airplane by Keri used under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
Freelancer Researching on iPad by 1Day Review used under CC BY 2.0
50 years of Government and industry working together to address the risk of oil pollution from ship by International Maritime Organization used under CC BY 2.0
Sticky Notes by Gabriel Toro used under CC BY-SA 2.0

Faculty & Staff Resources: Research Resources

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