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Resources for Teaching & Research

Connect with subject librarians who can assist you with your teaching and research needs. For your classes, we'll help you get affordable and free course materials and provide resources to support your students' research needs. We can provide assistance throughout your research journey, offering tips for data management, access to materials in various formats, and guidance on sharing your research to boost readership and impact.

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LibGuides: Library Research & Course Guides Subject librarians have developed subject and course-specific research guides in many different areas, as well as information literacy guides to help your students get started with their research projects. You can always refer your students to these guides on the Library website or embed the guides into your Canvas course. Please visit this site to view the list of published guides: ISU Library Guides (Links to an external site.) Embed Library Resources pages into your Canvas course.		Request Course Instruction Sessions You can collaborate with your liaison librarian to teach or co-teach an in-class course-related instruction session. These sessions focus on introducing students to discipline-based research materials relevant to their class or discipline and learning the best means to gather and evaluate information from them. To arrange for an in-class course-related instruction session, please contact your liaison librarian. Find Your Librarianks to an external site.

Course Reserves Work with the Course Reserves staff to make required course materials available directly through Canvas. Course Reserves staff will manage relevant copyright issues (including fees) related to posting or distributing this material, freeing instructors to focus on the classroom. Most resources are available electronically to students 24/7, and they will save money on purchasing course packs. Instructions for creating reserve items within Canvas are available via the Course Reserves Guide		Copyright Learn about policies related to the usage and distribution of materials for teaching and research. This guide also includes lessons, handouts, and materials to teach your students about copyright. Coressbooks is provided by the Iowa State University Digital Press to support the publication of open textbooks and other educational resources by Iowa State faculty and staff. Please visit this Copyright Information

Special Collections & University Archives Special Collections and University Archives is home to Iowa State University Library's rare books, manuscripts, photographs, audio recordings, film, artifacts, archival records, and other historical documents. Our collection covers a large range of areas, including agriculture and rural life, life sciences, engineering, technology, and Iowa State University history. You can request instruction (links to an external site), visit guidesLinks to an external site. (links to an external site) we have created to help navigate our resources, or email us at archives@iastate.edu for additional questions.		Streaming Video Collections The Library's Streaming video collections include thousands of documentaries, news programs and news clips, instructional material, and selected feature films on many subjects. Many of our streaming video platforms provide closed captions / searchable transcripts, and allow instructors to annotate specific clips for student use. For more information see our Streaming Videos Guide (Links to an external site.). Embed streaming video into your Canvas course

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