Turchin Business Library
Library Guides
Library Guides
The libraries at Tulane University are ranked among the members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), a group recognized as the top 125 research libraries in North America. For Tulane students (and faculty) this translates into a tremendous educational opportunity not to be missed or underutilized. The broad scope and depth of Tulane's library resources are one of the University's distinguishing strengths.
Still, many Tulane students who are used to relying on less authoritative general internet sources will not benefit from high-quality library resources unless they are encouraged by faculty, through course assignments, to use them.
Therefore it's important for teaching faculty to develop course materials that point students to articles, books, primary source materials and other scholarly resources apart from textbooks, and to develop assignments that generally point students toward the library (physically, online, or both).
Course Reserves provide students with access to print format materials selected by Tulane faculty and instructors for use as course materials. Physical items such as books, CDs, DVDs, or printed copies of book chapters can be placed on reserve and made available to students through short-term loans. For more information see Course Reserves.
Journal articles or book chapters originally published in print format and without published versions online may be scanned and linked to course materials such as those accessible through Canvas. For assistance with linking scanned items within the Canvas course management system contact the Faculty Technology Lab at (504) 862-8594.
However, all content placed on Course Reserves or copied from an original physical format to a digital copy for use as course material must comply with U.S. Copyright law and fair use guidelines. For example:
Faculty should not seek to place on reserve or otherwise post copyrighted material or portions of copyrighted material without first determining that the content is sufficiently licensed or falls within the public domain and that use of the content is a fair use for which the owner's permission is not required.
Copyrighted materials placed on reserve can be made available for students only while the requesting instructor is actually teaching the course, and must be removed from reserve status after the course is no longer in session.
Book selections scanned as course material should not exceed 15% of the total pages in the source. Journal articles scanned as course materials should not exceed two articles from any issue of the publication.
Placement of items on reserved or use of scanned publication originally in print format for two or more consecutive semesters requires copyright permission. Copyright permission can be sought through the Copyright Clearance Center.
Information from social media, the internet, collected data, and observation, however important, can also be somewhat one-dimensional. In an academic or research setting, meaning and understanding from these things are derived through a process of considering them within a context provided from comparisons to related concepts treated in thoughtful, authoritative literature.
Library Instruction: Librarians can help students go beyond Google to engage in this process of scholarship. They can help students learn to find information and scholarly literature, understand how it's produced and valued, and use it ethically to create new knowledge. Based on the goals of your assignment, a subject specialist librarian will custom-prepare a library workshop for students to learn about the research process, to use subject-specific databases, to locate scholarly sources, and/or to properly cite sources. See the Library Instruction Services web page for more information.
General Research Help: Students can get quick general help at any stage of the research process, by calling the library's Research Help Desk at (504) 865-5376 or emailing Turchin Business Library at turchin@tulane.edu. They may also chat with the Research Help staff.
The Turchin Library Research Help Desk is located in suite 331 in the Goldring/Woldenberg Busines Complex. During normal semester periods, the desk is staffed during the following hours.
Other Types of Research Help: Students can request a Research Appointment for a personalized, in-depth meeting with a subject specialist librarian to discuss specific or in-depth project-related research needs. The library also offers a wide range of open attendance workshops covering the use of specific research tools or topics.
Librarians involved in the library's Instruction Program will, by request, create an online guide to accompany a course-related assignment. Guides typically include relevant databases, library research tips, and contact information for subsequent help. Links to resources in these guides are generally the persistent links that allow students to connect remotely to resources licensed from publishers and therefore with access otherwise restricted to the Tulane campus network.
For more information contact a business librarian.
Below are links to some information related to preparing course materials for students
