Teaching & Scholarship

The University Libraries can help with your research and scholarship, and support you in your teaching. We can help find and share materials, design assignments, and lead instruction sessions to help achieve your course goals.

Help with Scholarship

  1. Subject and Course Guides

    Use our research guides to find in-depth resources by topic, course, or speciality.

  2. Find a Subject Specialist

    Find library experts who can connect you with resources and support.

  3. Document Delivery

    Use Document Delivery to get articles, books, and other materials not available in our collection.

  4. Citation Management

    Learn how to cite your sources and keep track of them.

  5. Open Access Journal Quality Indicators

    A rubric for assessing the quality of Open Access Journals.

  1. Publication Services

    We support faculty throughout the research and publication process

  2. Open Access Publishing Support Fund

    The Libraries provide financial support for faculty, students, and staff to publish scholarly work in open access journals

  3. Submit Research to ScholarWorks@GVSU

    Submit your scholarly, educational, and creative works to be shared and preserved by the University Libraries.

  4. Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

    Guidelines for preparing and submitting your final projects.

Instruction & Course Support

  1. Teaching and Classroom Support

    Liaison librarians can help you find and share resources, design assignments, and lead instruction sessions.

  2. First Year Program

    Each first-year writing class has its own liaison librarian to help with research, assignment design, and instruction.

  3. Knowledge Market Services for Faculty & Staff

    Partner with the Knowledge Market for Peer Consultant in-class visits, syllabus language, and more.

  4. Special Collections & University Archives Instruction

    Work with our archivists to integrate archival collections and instruction into your classes.

  5. Support for Online and Hybrid Teaching

    Get library instructional support for online and hybrid classes.

  1. Course Reserve

    Set aside specific physical materials from the library’s collections for your students and courses.

  2. Open Educational Resources (OER) Guide

    Find open-licensed textbooks and other educational materials for their courses.

  3. Learning Modules

    Creative videos and learning modules that you can embed in your Blackboard site.

  4. Learning and Teaching Philosophy

    How the University Libraries' Liaison Librarians approach teaching and learning at GVSU.

  5. Syllabus Language

    Incorporate information about library services and resources into your course syllabus.

Copyright Resources

  1. Copyright Basics

    Learn what rights copyright gives and what rights it protects.

  2. What is Fair Use?

    What rights users have to reproduce, remix, and use copyrighted works.

  3. Public Domain

    Information about works that may be used freely by anyone.

  4. Creative Commons

    Information about easy-to-use copyright licenses.

  1. Other Rights of Use

    What other rights do users of copyrighted works have?

  2. Obtaining Permission

    Learn about getting permission to use copyrighted works.

  3. U.S. Copyright Law

    Information about copyright law in the United States.

  4. GVSU Copyright Policies

    Policies on copyright at GVSU.

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