Curriculum Support

The library seeks to work with faculty to improve our students' access to information and to develop their research skills. Please examine our specific services and contacts listed below to see if you would like to:

• design assignments involving the scientific literature and information management
• arrange for research-skills workshops tailored to your course
• create course webpages with suggested readings and link to electronic articles and reference works licensed by Tufts Libraries
• search for and link to instructional websites from our course pages or TUSK
• load images, syllabi, lecture notes, multimedia applications, etc. onto TUSK.

Course Support

• Download images for presentations from
  • ARTstor
    This image database of architecture, painting, photography, sculpture, decorative arts, design, and archaeological and anthropological objects extends Instructor Privileges to faculty who register. For username and password, call Tisch Library at 617-627-3460.
  • Other image databases.
• Have a librarian assigned to your course and students.
• Contact us (617.636.6705) about joint projects, hands-on training sessions & webpages designed to facilitate the development of students' research skills. Please examine these and other examples listed by school under Education on our homepage:
  • Ethics & Professionalism in Dentistry
  • Molecular & Cell Biology Resources
  • PBL Resources Handbook.
• Update your course readings and links to relevant websites and full-text articles with the help of our librarians.
  • How to link to articles in library databases
• Place items on reserve at our InfoCirc Desk (617.636.6706).
• Recommend that the library add particular works to its collections.

Reserve a Room

Seminar Rooms

• The library has several seminar rooms with projections units that can by reserved by faculty for small classes.
  

Computer Classrooms

• The library has two computer classrooms with XP worktations and multimedia projection systems, which can be reserved by faculty for classes.
• Please see our Computer Labs & Resources for more details on the computer lab equipment and software.

Tufts University Science Knowledgebase

• Access TUSK with your Universal Tufts Login Name (UTLN) and email password.
  • Apply for a UTLN at the Library Systems Office Desk on Sackler 5 (617-636-2947).
  • Email TUSK if you experience difficulty.
• Consult your Office of Educational Affairs (TUSDM: (617-636-0352); TUSM: Carolyn McVoy (617-636-6650) or email TUSK, if you would like to:
  • Put course material on TUSK
  • Construct a course homepage
  • Add syllabi, readings, lecture notes, slide presentations, quizzes, multimedia & links to Websites.
  • Consult with TUSK staff about graphics & multimedia technology.
• Consult Elizabeth Richardson (617.636.6774), if you would like to:
• Add full-text links from your references to e-journal articles or e-book chapters
• List reserve articles, books or audiovisuals (with HHSL locations) on your course pages
• Have a librarian assigned to your course & listed on its Contact List.
• Browse by specialty our VIP-Care links to evidence and authoritative chapters.
• Email TUSK or contact Elaine Almeida (617.636.2472) for authoring permission in order to directly upload images and files.
• Request copyright permission for works loaded on TUSK.
• See also the TUSK FAQ.

Research Support

Electronic Books & Journals

• Browse e-books by title & subject.
• Browse e-journals by title or publisher.
• Search Tufts Catalog for print holdings and access to most electronic journals. Connect to our electronic resources from its proxied link on the complete record.
• Link to full-text articles by clicking FindIt@Tufts beside the citation in most of our databases. Our customized PubMed shows a tab for Tufts holdings and blue icons on its Abstract and Citation displays for our print and electronic holdings.
• See also Tisch Library's How to Use Electronic Journals.
• For help with our journals, please contact our InfoCirc Desk (617.636.6705).

Order Papers, Books, Journals & AVs

• Check out our subsidized fees for ordering:
  • photocopied papers from our collections
  • papers, books & audiovisuals obtained from other libraries.
• Register for ILLiad, our online document-delivery service.
  • The registration link works on Internet Explorer. Firefox users may need to delete all cookies (Tools/ Options/ Security/ Show Cookies/ Delete All Cookies).
  • Order articles via Ovid's Document Delivery link following their citations.
  • Order books and audiovisuals via the Tufts ILLiad link in WorldCat records.
• Order articles directly from PubMed via our Loansome Doc Service.
• Order books and audiovisuals on the Virtual Catalog of the Boston Library Consortium using your library barcode.
• Search Tufts Catalog for works held in all Tufts libraries.
• Check My Account to renew works you've borrowed and see what you've requested from Tufts' libraries.
• Suggest purchase of a book or journal subscription.

Ovid Databases

• Request customized, email alerts from Ovid databases from Amy Lapidow (617.636.6705).
• Obtain from her an individual account for permanently saving search histories.
• Directly export citations with abstracts from the Results Manager to RefWorks, EndNote, ProCite, or Reference Manager.
• Order photocopies via the Document Delivery link at the end of their citations.
• Link to full-text articles in Journals@Ovid and at publishers' sites.
• Send us your questions via the Ask an HHSL Librarian link on the Main Page.

Other Databases

• Access Tufts' proxied biomedical databases.
• Search for faculty research interests on the Community of Science's Tufts Expertise Database.
• Browse by subject all Tufts' databases, which link out from the gray bars.
• For sources of clinical and other images, see our E-Resource Finder.

Bibliographic Management Software

• Import references with abstracts and some URLs for full-text articles from Ovid, PubMed, Web of Science et al.
• Create your own databases to manage reprint files, grants & projects.
• Organize your bookmarks to Websites and links to PDFs.
• Generate bibliographies in various bibliographic styles, within Word or WordPerfect.
• Generate bibliographies of staff publications for the Web (e.g. Recent Faculty Publications: TUSDM).
• Search the Tufts Catalog, PubMed et al. from your own databases.
• Arrange for a training session (617.636.3988).
• See our comparison of EndNote, RefWorks & Reference Manager.
• Ask about our support for EndNote, ProCite, Reference Manager & RefWorks (617.636.6705).
• Ask about Quosa, which retrieves PDFs automatically from Ovid and PubMed (617.636.6774).

Area Libraries

• Ask at our InfoCirc Desk for a Boston Library Consortium (BLC) card for borrowing at member institutions.
• Ask at our InfoCirc Desk for information about journals owned by BLC libraries.
• Use your library barcode to request materials directly via the BLC Virtual Catalog.
• Show your Tufts ID for access to Harvard's Countway Library of Medicine.
  • Faculty must be on a list submitted annually by Faculty Affairs.
  • If you are new to Tufts or not listed on the Tufts Directory, contact our InfoCirc Desk or Faculty Affairs (TUSDM:617.636.6544; TUSM:617.636.6631).
  • Other faculty may occasionally enter with a letter from our InfoCirc Desk.
• Link to area libraries.

Help

• Register for access to our proxied resources & borrowing from Tufts libraries.
• Register your laptop for use with Tufts' public jacks or our wireless network.
• Download Microsoft programs using your UTLN.
• Consult Tufts Computing & Communications Services about software licensing.
• Request a TUSK account or help with software required to view multimedia files:
  • Contact Elaine Almeida (617.636.2472).
  • Download required software from the TUSK User Guide.
• Ask us for help with search strategies, search engines, or any of our resources:
  • Email us your questions and concerns at hhsl@tufts.edu
  • Contact our InfoCirc Desk (617.636.6705).
  • Research Assistance
• Ask a librarian to help you link to articles, chapters, or sections of our e-resources from your TUSK course page(s).
  • How to Create Full-Text Links to HHSL Licensed Material
  • Tisch Library's How to Link to Articles in Library Databases