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Welcome!
Since many of you are new students on campus or have not been in school for a while, listed below are some sources for learning about Library services that are useful to graduate students
- Getting Started @ the LibrariesBasic information on the Library, how to find resources in the Library and how to start a research assignment.
- FAQs for Grad StudentsIntroduction to Library resources and services that are of interest to graduate students
Starting Your research
Listed below are resources for getting background on the extent and focus of the literature on your topic
- URI Libraries Search
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Locate books, videos, online resources and more available through the URI Libraries.
- Scopus (Elsevier) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature with tools to track, analyze, and visualize article and literature use. Includes journal articles, books, book series, conference papers, and more. Alternative to Web of Science. Indexes close to 35,000 titles.
- Web of Science Core Collection (Clarivate) This link opens in a new window
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- What's included? Access to Science Citation Index (1900-present), Social Sciences Citation Index (1900-present), Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present), Emerging Sources Citation Index (2005-present), Conference Proceedings Citation Index (1900-present), and Book Citation Index (2005-present). Contains citations to articles from over 10,000 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world.
- What else should I know? Searching by cited reference allows the user to uncover the research that influenced an author’s work or to navigate forward in time to discover a paper’s impact on current research.
Created by
D. Mongeau 9/13; rev. 10/13