Research at Your Library
Supporting student and faculty research is a core mission of the library at Allegheny College. We offer a variety of resources and services to support your research.
Visit the Research Desk in Pelletier Library, Monday through Thursday from 3:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. whenever classes are in session, for face-to-face assistance. Or take advantage of many other ways the Pelletier librarians can help with your research needs.
Classroom visits
Librarians will work with faculty to prepare classroom sessions designed to help students develop and reinforce both information literacy and research skills. Presentations are tailored to each course’s level and subject matter.Ideally, faculty should schedule sessions with Research Instruction Services as they prepare their syllabi. This provides the librarians with ample time to prepare an appropriate session.
For librarian presentations, the Pelletier classroom is available for classes of up to 15 students, or the librarian can visit the classroom in person.
RefWorks
RefWorks is a useful way to manage the references and citations you use in your research. Use it to:
- track which books, articles, and media you find useful
- take notes about the references you’re using
- generate citations and bibliographies in the citation style your professor requires
- connect with the Google Docs add-on to manage citations and bibliographies right in your paper or presentation
NOTE: The first time you use RefWorks, you will need to create a RefWorks account. Use the “Create account” link on the RefWorks login page to do this.
- Check out our playlist of RefWorks video tutorials on YouTube!
Research Help
Librarians are available to help you research. They can help you narrow a topic for a paper, find scholarly sources, search more efficiently, and navigate the complexities of academic research. Don’t just Google information; let us help you build your search strategy, assess sources, and track citations, to save you frustration and time.
Resources
The library offers online resources to support your research, including:
- AggreGator, the library’s discovery tool, will help you find both physical books and online resources available to you through the library.
- Over a hundred different databases containing ebooks, peer-reviewed journals, newspapers, magazines, scanned historical documents, streaming video and music, statistics, and more.
- Research Guides to assist you in almost every discipline taught here at Allegheny, tailored specifically with Allegheny’s curriculum in mind.
- Student projects from across the history of Allegheny College, housed by the Merrick Archives.
Coming soon: The Center for Faculty Research and Teaching Excellence!