Faculty - Library Resources and Services

Services and resources to support UPEI faculty teaching and research:

• Your Liaison Librarian: your resource person for matters regarding the collections, your information and research needs (and those of your students), and other library-related issues (including Moodle Library block customization for specific courses)
• Reserves - print and e-reserves
• Library Collections (how to recommend material for purchase)
• Obtaining Materials (including borrowing; Interlibrary Loan and document delivery; searching other library catalogues; and borrowing in person from other libraries)
• Information Literacy Instruction 
• IslandScholar Repository (more info): of faculty profiles, publications and student theses; library staff enter your citation information as they find it, and can help you upload the appropriate fulltext version for each citation; email publications@upei.ca to add or update your own publication list
• Virtual Research Environment: (VRE) supports the activities of research groups by providing a suite of resources, including collaboration tools and data stewardship, in a web-based environment (also see Data Management Resources)
• Open Textbook Resources: Liaison librarians can help you find high quality free alternative to expensive commercial textbooks for your students (also known as OER)
• Other Library Resources for Teaching and Research (including RefWorks and Research Guides)
• Book Donation Policy

Library Collections

To recommend a purchase: contact your Liaison Librarian or use this form.

Obtaining Materials

• Borrowing Library Materials - See Circulation Borrower Regulations for Faculty. Note: print journals are for in-library use only.
• Scanned articles/chapters from the Library's print journal/book collection - Submit your requests using the Interlibrary Loan form. Each scanned article will be delivered as a link in an email message, subject to the same conditions as an article obtained through Interlibrary Loan. A single book chapter from a print book available in the Library may be requested the same way.
• Search other library catalogues, as well as AMICUS (the union catalogue of the National Library of Canada) and WorldCat (an international union catalogue).
• Borrowing in person from other university libraries - A CAUL card from the Robertson Library gives UPEI faculty, students, and staff borrowing privileges at other participating university libraries throughout Canada.

Information Literacy Instruction

If you plan to give your students library-related assignments or research papers, please contact your Liaison Librarian to arrange for your students to have a library/information research class (on how to develop research strategies, how to develop efficient search techniques, how to find and evaluate web resources, etc.).  Whether you schedule such a class or not, please send a copy of your assignment to your Liaison Librarian so that the Information Desk staff will be prepared to help your students.

Librarians are also available to provide assistance in designing student assignments and to work with you and your department to incorporate information literacy skills into the curriculum.

UPEI's course management system, Moodle, provides a standard block of library resources for your students. Your Liaison Librarian will collaborate with you to ensure that course-specific resources are added.

Other Library Resources for Teaching and Research

• Photocopying: Your UPEI Campus Card can be used for photocopying from both print and microform materials. Enquire at the Service Desk for information on departmental photocopying privileges. Self-serve digital scanning from microforms and of print documents is available at no charge.
• Copyright: All copying at UPEI must respect the Copyright Act.  For greater clarity, Robertson Library provides a UPEI and Copyright guide.
• RefWorks - a web-based reference management tool which you can use to create your own database of citations (and to format citations in Word documents).
• Subject Research Guides
• Cited Reference Searching
• Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) - provides access to numerous Statistics Canada public use microdata files, databases and geographic files for use in research and teaching.
• International Standard Book Numbers (ISBNs) for UPEI Publications are available through the Robertson Library.
• Designing Effective Poster Presentations

Updated: June 2016