LibGuides: Faculty & Graduate Students: Research Support

Get Help

The Libraries offer a wide range of resources and services to support your research.

Contact a Subject Specialist
Find a liaison librarian or subject specialist for research help.
Schedule a Research Consultation
Contact your librarian directly, or use this form to request a consultation.
Ask-A-Librarian
Use this service designed primarily to answer short, fact-based reference questions.
Use Research & Publishing Support Guides
Check out various guides to learn about scholarly communication issues (eg, open access, data management).
Use Subject Guides
Consult our curated lists of discipline-specific resources for ODU faculty, staff and students.
Consult Citation Management Guides
Find out how to use EndNote or Zotero to manage your references and incorporate cited references and bibliography entries into your Word document.

Library Services

Request a Book Purchase
Faculty are encouraged to use this form to request the purchase of print and electronic books.
Interlibrary Loan
Use ILL to borrow books and retrieve articles that ODU does not subscribe to! If you are a distance student, have books mailed directly to you!
Borrow Materials from One of Our Consortial Partners
VIVA (Virtual Library of Virginia) has a Cooperative Borrowing Program which extends borrowing privileges to the non-profit academic libraries within the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Virginia Tidewater Consortium extends borrowing privileges to Hampton Roads area colleges and universities.
Borrowing, renewing, recalls and holds
Our catalog offers many online features.

Faculty/Grad Student Research Carrels:

Spend a lot of time in the library? Request a carrel for your research needs. Research carrels are assigned to ODU faculty members and graduate students with demonstrated need to use library resources for a given research or writing project, on-campus sabbatical project, doctoral dissertation, or master's thesis. See Procedures

Printing/Copying in the Libraries:

Printing is available to students, faculty, and staff at Perry #1-6 stations in the 1st and 2nd floor Learning Commons. All six machines are multifunction print/copy/scan devices that print or copy in black/white ($0.05/sheet) or color ($0.50/sheet).
Using MonarchPrint, you can upload or email your document(s) to the Monarch Print cloud and pick up your job from any campus printer within 24 hours.
Faculty and staff can use a unit budget code if available or add money to your personal MonarchPlus. More information at MonarchPrint.
A photocopier is located in the Learning Commons near the multimedia stations: $.10/page.

Scanning in the Libraries:

Scan from any one of the Perry #1-6 printing stations in the 1st and 2nd floor Learning Commons using the “Scan and Send” option and email the scan. Note: no OCR option.
Microform scanners are located on the 2nd floor.

Faculty and Graduate Students can also use our Document Delivery Service through Interlibrary Loan to request a PDF copy of an article or book chapter available at ODU Libraries (or elsewhere) using your ILLIAD account and receive it usually within 2-3 workdays. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact ILL (757-683-4170) for more information.

Copyright Help

Copyright Basics
Know when you can and cannot use someone else’s copyrighted material in your own work.
Copyright & Author Rights
Learn about your rights as an author, and protect your copyright when publishing your own work.
Creative Commons Licenses
Consider assigning a creative commons license to your works so that others will know exactly how they can use, share, or modify it without seeking your permission.

Data Management Planning

Whether your research data is numeric, text, image, media -- from the beginning of your research project to the end, data management will make the process more efficient. It is especially important for grant-funded research projects. Consult our Data Management @ ODU guide for more information.

Data Management @ ODU
Manage your research data and get assistance with data management planning.
Data Management Funder Policies
Considering a federal research grant? Find out what federal funders require for research data.

Research Impact & Metrics

ORCID: Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier
ORCID is a persistent identifier (PID) required by many funders and publishers. Find out how you can connect your ORCID account to many other systems.
Research Impact & Metrics
Use our guide to learn about persistent author identifiers, author profiles, citation/author alerts and how to promote your research and measure its impact, especially for your own promotion/tenure portfolio.

Funding Sources

The following are some grant funding sources to consult. It's always best to contact the ODU Office of Research for grant information and assistance.

GrantForward (ODU Office of Research)
ODU subscribes to the GrantForward funding database, which provides faculty, students and staff at Old Dominion University access to funding opportunties daily.
Grants.gov
Grants.gov has information about all federally supported funding opportunities and general information about the federal grant process. Use "Search Grants."
GrantWatch
Use "Search for Grants"
Grantli: State Grants Research Tool
List of private foundations and charities by state.
Jisc Open Policy Finder