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].

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.

To schedule library instruction sessions for your class, please contact your campus instruction coordinator or a subject specialist librarian.

See also:

• Information for Faculty and Staff

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

Request cable cast of moving image materials by filling out a Mediavision Cable Cast Request Form (instructors only)(New Brunswick only).

See also:

• Mediavision Cable Cast Request Service (New Brunswick only)

New faculty members in New Brunswick who need to access Library services prior to the beginning of their appointment, to reserve books or prepare for classes, can do so by having their department sponsor them for a Visiting Scholar ID card. Bring a completed ID Card Request Form [PDF], signed by your department head, to University Human Resources, ASB II, Cook Campus. Complete instructions are available at the Rutgers RUconnection Card website.

Faculty members in Newark should contact the Rutgers-Newark Photo ID Office. Camden faculty members should go to the IMPACT Booth in the Camden Campus Center.

Once you obtain your 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.