Just for You

Our guide, Using the Library: Information for Graduate Students tries to bring together all the library-related resources and services you will need for your studies at Concordia. It can help you pinpoint the best spots on the library web site for graduate students and discover the services, resources and perks reserved for grad students only.

subject Specialists and other sources of help

• Use an ASK A LIBRARIAN service such as a reference desk or our live chat feature, for quick and direct questions about library resources and services.
  
  
• Contact the Subject Librarian for your Discipline to ask more in-depth questions about your research or to to make an appointment for a one-on-one consultation.
  
  

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Finding Subject-Specific resources and more

• Start with the Research Guide for your Discipline to discover and access the databases and other resources considered essential for your discipline.
  
  
• You can also use the Databases list to quickly access your favourite Concordia Databases and Online Reference to jump into online encyclopedias, ebooks and more.
  
  
• *TIPS:
  • You can keep track of all the references you found and create instant bibliographies with RefWorks. See also the RefWorks Import-Export Instructions
  • We offer RefWorks workshops for grads and for all
  • If you are interested in exploring other Bibliographic Management tools (Zotero, Mendeley) see this comparison from UBC
  
  
  

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Accessing material at Concodia and beyond

AT CONCORDIA:

• NOTE: The Findit@Concordia button in most of our Databases can often help you directly access Concordia material, but IT DOESN'T ALWAYS WORK! You'll need the alternatives below.
  
  
• ACCESS BOOKS: Use our library catalogue CLUES - try the Search Options for title, author, keyword and more.
  
  
• ACCESS JOURNALS: Use the CLUES Journal Title Search option or E-journals search page.
  
  
• *TIP: Use the Article Delivery Form for journals at Concordia that are not online.
  
  

BEYOND CONCORDIA:

• See our other library catalogues page to check for material at other institutions locally and worldwide.
  
  
• WorldCat simultaneously searches the catalogues of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide and Google Books searches within the pages of millions of books.
  
  
• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses offers the full text of many thousands of theses from approximately 1997 onwards. See also our How to find theses guide.
  
  
• Use COLOMBO (our Interlibrary Loans form) to request - for free - books, journal articles and conference papers from anywhere in the world. [use the Create Request link for items you cannot find]
  
  
• Obtain a CREPUQ card to borrow material from other libraries yourself.

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Optimize your Access from on and off campus

• Download and install the Concordia VPN [Virtual Private Network] to seamlessly access subscription-based resources on the web, as if you were connecting from within the university.
  
  
• Configure your laptop or mobile device for the Concordia wireless network.
  
  
• Use our new Mobile Site to access library essentials: m.library.concordia.ca
  
  
• Set up Google Scholar to use Findit@Concordia.
  
  
• Explore the LibX Concordia browser extenstion for Firefox.
  
  

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