LibGuides: Faculty & Graduate Students: Research Support

Assistance & Services

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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 our Subject Guides
Librarians have created subject guides for nearly every departmental discipline.

Library Services

Borrowing, renewing, recalls and holds
Our catalog offers many online features.
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!
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/Photocopying: Printing is available to students and faculty at stations in the Learning Commons. Options include using a unit budget code or money added to your personal MonarchPlus. Ask for the printing handout at the Help Desk if you need help.

A photocopier is located in the Learning Commons near the multimedia stations: $.10/page.

Scanning:

Let us scan it. Use the library's Document Delivery Service (Interlibrary Loan). For an article or book chapter available at ODU Libraries (or elsewhere), faculty and graduate students can request the item through their ILLIAD account and receive it via PDF, usually within 2-3 work days. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact ILL (757-683-4170) for more information.
Or... you can scan it yourself. Use any one of the printer/scanners in the Learning Commons, 1st or 2nd floor. Note: no OCR option.

Research Impact

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.

Dissertations/Theses

The Libraries will assist graduate assistants with identifying and using research resources for your thesis or dissertation. Contact a liaison librarian for assistance.

For copyright assistance, contact Karen Vaughan, kvaughan@odu.edu
For specific policies and procedures, contact the Graduate School -- graduateschool@odu.edu
Or, consult the Old Dominion University Guide for Preparation of Theses and Dissertations [PDF] (rev. 2018)
The primary purpose of this manual is to provide uniform standards regarding style and format while allowing enough flexibility to satisfy the acceptable practices of each academic discipline.

Note: As of 2016, ODU instituted an Electronic Thesis and Dissertation program -- electronic format is now required for all students. All dissertations and theses will be submitted and available electronically through ProQuest's Dissertations & Theses @ ODU, and the University's official copy will be available through the university's institutional repository: ODU Digital Commons. No new print copies are available in the University Libraries. For more information, including the official guide, go to the ODU Graduate School Resources page.

How to Find Dissertations & Theses
Use this ODU Library how-to guide for more information about finding dissertations and theses.

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 a Grant."
Grantli: State Grants Research Tool
List of private foundations and charities by state.
Sherpa Juliet
Sherpa Juliet enables researchers and librarians to see funders' conditions for open access publication.