Faculty Resources

Access to hundreds of thousands of books, journal articles, book reviews, and more. All of our items (print and electronic) are searchable in Primo, the library’s discovery tool.

Search in Primo

The library has access to several streaming services, as well as an extensive DVD collection. Learn more about using films in classes and customized research needs with our research guide.

Search films at Union

Search subject-specific databases like JSTOR, EconLit, IEEE, or ScienceDirect with our databases list. Databases of primary sources are also available here.

Search databases A-Z

Union College community members can sign up for a personal subscription to sources such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg.com, and Chronicle of Higher Education.

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If we do not own the video you need, please use the Suggest a Purchase form below or contact Library Collections (librarycollections@union.edu) with your purchase request information.

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Librarians are available to answer questions about sources, consult on our materials, host workshops, and meet with your students regarding how to find sources and navigate our collections online. We are available by phone, email, and appointment to work with you and your students.

Teach with the Library

LibGuides allow librarians to gather, organize, and share library and web resources like research databases and explanatory videos. Our subject and course guides assist researchers and research-based classes by pairing relevant resources with overviews on how to research. Email reference@union.edu for questions or to request a guide.

Browse LibGuides

Faculty are encouraged to place physical materials on Course Reserves in the Library for their students to access throughout the term. This shared access model serves to provide equitable access to required materials and reduce course costs for the students.

Course Reserves

Learn more about freely available textbooks and other resources that help lower the cost of classes for students.

Open Educational Resources

The library can offer assistance in locating and acquiring data for teaching and research needs. Email us to tell us more about your data needs.

Email reference@union.edu

EndNote Fusion is a citation and bibliography manager that allows users to create their own online database of citations that can be organized and used in writing a paper or article. Learn more with our LibGuide to EndNote Fusion

Connect to EndNote

Omeka can be a very useful platform for a variety of projects including online exhibitions, classroom projects, presentations and more. Omeka is similar to site building tools such as Wordpress, but with a greater capacity to expand on metadata and relating information to each other. There are certain plugins / modules you can use to enhance your project.

Learn more about Omeka

Learn more about copyright, fair use, and classroom applications.

Copyright for faculty guide

Our resources are available from off-campus without the use of a VPN (though some faculty and students abroad may need to use the campus VPN). Use Primo to find what you need, and then log in when prompted.

Connect from Off-campus

This guide is meant to act as a resource for teacher scholars at Union College by sharing resources available to help support and guide you through the research publication process. It includes information about open access (OA) publications and subscriptions with transformative agreements that can help reduce or eliminate any OA publishing fees.

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Schaffer Library offers a variety of services and resources to faculty as they conduct their research. View our guide to learn more about:

• Research data management
• Data management plans (DMPs)
• Open publishing agreements and open access (OA) publishing

View our Faculty Research Data Management Services guide

Need an ISBN for an upcoming publication or an ISSN for a forthcoming journal? We can help!

Email library collections

For DOI requests, please contact our digital services team. DOIs can only be created for items hosted in our institutional repository.

Email digital services

Digital scholarship is research and teaching that critically engages with data and computing technologies. Digital scholars employ computational tools and methods (such as 3D / AR / VR) to extend knowledge production, dissemination, and preservation, while also uncovering technology’s limitations, biases, and misuses to create a more just and equitable digital world.

Learn more about DSI

The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) offers topic guides listing a selection of key source materials that can support research in various areas. New citations are added from time to time; reformulated guides also provide an overview of the current “landscape” of information dissemination and collecting in particular fields, and reference selected online resources available through CRL.

CRL topic guides

HathiTrust Digital Library contains over 17 million digitized items. HathtiTrust’s holdings are mainly books and articles, many of which are historical, full-text searchable, and downloadable. It is an essential repository of primary sources for historical research.

HathiTrust catalog

Available to support faculty in utilizing special collections and archives in the online learning environment. We are able to offer instruction sessions on a variety of topics. Many of our collections are available online, and we can help integrate these resources into your course. Please reach out to AskSpecialCollections@union.libanswers.com.

Visit the SCA website

The Adirondack Research Library is available to visit by appointment. It has a selection of its collection available online for use in research and teaching.

Visit the ARL's website

Our collections are available to support faculty with methods of integrating artwork from the permanent collections or gallery exhibitions within teaching. Please contact the ucpc@union.edu for more information.

Consult with you or students regarding study and research of Collection items or present Permanent Collection artwork to class groups for in-depth examination and discussion.

A selection of collections are available online through our website.

View our collections