Research Assistance

Research Help

Ask a Librarian Email Service
University of Connecticut Libraries' electronic information and reference service. Ready reference, quick answer, and factual questions are appropriate for askHomer.
Ask a Librarian Live Reference
Chat online with a librarian.
Contact a Subject Specialist
Service for faculty and students that providesyou with a personal contact to whom library-related issues and questions may be addressed.
Copyright
Copyright issues and their application as they concern teaching, research, and scholarship at the University of Connecticut
How to Begin Your Research
"Research 101" gives an introduction to research basics.

Class, Research and Subject Guides

Class Guides
Web pages prepared by librarians, listing library resources for the classes you are taking
Electronic Guides
"How To" instructions for using specific research databases and electronic services
Research Guides
PDF documents compiled to help undergraduates identify sources of information, arranged by topic
Microform Research Collections
Guides and indexes to the Babbidge Library microforms collections
Subject Guides
Library and Internet resources arranged by academic discipline

Research Tools

Assignment Calculator
Manage your course assignments
Citation Linker
Find full-text articles online when you know the citation
Citation Style Guides / Citing Your Sources
How to acknowledge the research and ideas of others that you use in your research
Digital Commons at UConn
Electronic repository of the intellectual output of the UConn Community
Google Scholar
Search scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources
RSS Feeds, Delicious, and Blogs
UConn Libraries and UConn RSS feeds, Stamford Library Feeds, and Library Blogs
Tutorials
Tutorials about doing research, using databases, finding articles, searching the Web, evaluating Web resources, citing sources, using style guides, and more.
RefWorks
Web-based citation management program which allows you to create a personal database of citations from journal articles, books, book chapters or other sources