To recommend materials for purchase, please refer to the list of Collection Development / Subject Specialist Librarians for telephone numbers and e-mail addresses.

Resources on intellectual property, acceptable use, and Rutgers policies may be found on the Copyright Information Guide. You may also wish to consult the acceptable uses of Licensed Digital Resources [PDF].

Information about copyright policy for electronic reserves is located within Reserve Services, A Guide for Faculty.

Delivery and Interlibrary Loan services offer a variety of options for obtaining items that are not at your local campus library or part of the Rutgers libraries collections.

Information about the range of library services available to faculty emeriti can be found here.

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Book media for preview and classroom use with a Media Materials - Booking Form.

Request cablecast of moving image materials by filling out a Mediavision Cablecast Request Form (instructors only)(New Brunswick only).

See also:

• Mediavision Cablecast Request Service (New Brunswick only)

If you are a new faculty member and need to place books on Reserves or use library services to prepare for classes prior to the beginning of your appointment, you can do so by presenting an RUconnection ID card at the circulation desk of any Rutgers library.

New faculty members in New Brunswick who attend a new employee orientation, or who have a signed RUconnection ID card request form certifying their appointment from their department, will be issued an RUconnection ID card by University Human Resources, ASBII, Cook Campus in advance of their employment date. Faculty members in Newark should contact the utgers-Newark Photo ID Office. Camden faculty members should go to the IMPACT Booth in the Camden Campus Center.

Once you obtain your RUconnection ID card, present it at any library circulation desk to activate borrowing privileges.

To borrow from other academic institutions in the Tri-state area, please refer to policies on Cooperative Access Arrangements.

RefWorks is a Web-based bibliographic citation manager which works with most library databases.

To designate a Research Assistant (RA) to checkout and renew books, request delivery of books and articles, and book media for classroom use on your behalf, request a Faculty Research Assistant (RA) Card.

Place materials on reserve for a course by filling out a Reserve Request Form (instructors only).

See also:

• Reserve Services, A Guide for Faculty
• Electronic Documents on Reserve: A User's Guide

RUcore is an open access institutional repository that makes the significant intellectual property of Rutgers University faculty and Rutgers University departments, centers, and institutes permanently and freely accessible for scholars and researchers around the globe.

Rutgers University faculties are invited to deposit the results of their research and professional activity. Your deposits will be preserved and made permanently available in RUcore. Articles resulting from NIH funding can be placed jointly in PubMed Central and RUcore easily via the RUL/NIH Submission Service.

The Rutgers Libraries' Toolbar is a free web browser extension that provides a drop-down menu to library resources, embedded library links on certain popular web pages such as Amazon.com, and new functionality to the "right-click menu" of your mouse.

How scholarly publishing is changing and how you can help direct that change.

Visiting scholars are eligible for borrowing, delivery, interlibrary loan, and off-campus access to library resources. To use library services, visiting scholars need to:

• Obtain a Rutgers RUConnection ID card by submitting a signed RUconnection ID Card Request Form to the RU Connection Card Office on their campus.

• Bring their RUconnection ID card to any Rutgers library circulation desk where staff will issue a library barcode and PIN.

• Use their barcode and PIN to login to the Libraries' web site from off-campus, request delivery and interlibrary loan, and check out materials.