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We offer a broad range of resources and services to support your teaching, research and scholarship.

Teaching

Research & scholarship

Services to support your teaching

Request an in-class instruction session

Request an in-class instruction session on a variety of topics depending on your class’s needs. We can also assist with developing learning outcomes, assignments, and assessment tools. 

Asynchronous teaching materials 

We have developed asynchronous materials that you can incorporate into your classes or course websites including: 

Library support for your students 

We offer a wide variety of support for your students including: 

Support for your students with accessibility needs 

Library Accessibility Services provides adaptive software, technology access and instruction, study space, and other services designed to help students who are registered with the Student Accessibility Services (SAS) with reading, writing, note-taking, and studying. 

Course reserves & copyright

How do I set up course reserves?

Use Ares Course Reserves to help your students find course material all in one place.

  • We will enable access to digital content you want your students to use, such as e-books, journal articles, streaming media, via Ares, the course reserves system.
  • We will do our best to purchase or license a digital alternative to the print materials you require.
  • We will ensure that all material posted in Ares complies with copyright, and accessibility standards under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA).

When providing course readings and other copyright-protected materials to students, best practices are similar whether your class is in person or online.

To ensure that your course materials meet both copyright and accessibility requirements, submit them to Ares Course Reserve system. Library staff will obtain and pay for any copyright permission that is required.

Learn more about copyright guidelines for instructors.

Textbooks and affordable course content

When possible, the library purchases copies of textbooks for most undergraduate courses and makes them available through the Ares Course Reserve system. However, due to publisher restrictions on selling e-textbooks to libraries, often print versions are the only format we are able to acquire.  

The current commercial textbook market causes affordability, accessibility, and equity issues for many students.  We therefore encourage instructors to consider alternatives to commercial textbooks when selecting their course materials, such as:

  • Scanning one or two individual chapters (subject to copyright guidelines) and posting them in Ares. When feasible, the library will obtain copyright permission for requests that exceed copyright guidelines.
  • Creating an online course pack in Ares by linking to alternate content from the library’s collections of electronic resources.  
  • Having the library purchase an available e-book (that is not a commercial textbook) in the relevant subject area.  
  • Using or adopting an open educational resource (OER). 

Contact Course Material & Reserve Services to receive support with selecting affordable alternatives to commercial textbooks.

Videos for classroom use

Learn about public performance rights and browse our collection of streaming videos for classroom use.

Open educational resources

Open Educational Resources (OER) are educational materials (including textbooks, videos, question banks, simulations and much more) that are openly licensed and freely available for anyone to use. OER can benefit you and your students:

  • They often allow for modification so they can be tailored to your course.
  • OER lessens financial pressures on students and ensures they have access to course materials.

Watch this short video and hear from University of Guelph faculty who have used OER. 

Learn more about OER including how to find and evaluate OER and other useful resources. You can also book an appointment for support in your creation and use of OERs.

Experiential learning opportunities for your students

Services to support your research and scholarship

Research data management

Contact Publishing & Author Support for help with developing a sound data management strategy. We can also help with finding, collecting, analyzing, visualizing and preserving data.

Working with data

Contact Working with Data Support for help at any stage of the research data lifecycle including:

  • Finding or collecting data
  • Cleaning or preparing data
  • Analyzing data
  • Visualizing data

Archiving & preserving your research

Contact Publishing & Author Support for help with meeting funding requirements, and preparing and depositing research outputs for preservation and sharing in an appropriate repository or a U of G repository.

Publishing & author rights

Contact Publishing & Author Support for help to keep your rights as an author and sort out the world of copyright, intellectual property, and author addenda. We can give you the inside track on publishing in traditional journals, open access publishing, and other publishing formats (social media, podcasts, etc.).

Writing support

Faculty and instructors are welcome to book individual appointments with professional staff members to consult on writing projects, make writing plans for upcoming sabbaticals, and discuss feedback on journal submissions.

The Faculty Writing Retreat is offered each spring. This week-long retreat is designed for faculty and staff working on scholarly writing projects such as books, book chapters, and journal articles.

Research assistance

We offer one-on-one appointments to help you:

  • Develop a research strategy
  • Identify key databases
  • Find grey literature
  • Improve your search queries to enhance precision and recall
  • Conduct a systematic review or other form of knowledge synthesis
  • Use Zotero to manage your citations
  • Get started on a literature review, scoping review, or systematic review

Search the library collection and request materials

Use Omni to search the U of G library and the other university libraries in Ontario and beyond. Learn more about our interlibrary loan service.

We also subscribe to hundreds of specialized databases.

Suggest a new purchase for the library collection.

Questions?

Contact us.

The library is committed to ensuring that members of our user community with disabilities have equal access to our services and resources and that their dignity and independence is always respected. If you encounter a barrier and/or need an alternate format, please fill out our Library Print and Multimedia Alternate-Format Request Form. Contact us if you’d like to provide feedback: lib.a11y@uoguelph.ca
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