{"id":5290,"date":"2020-04-09T12:54:57","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T16:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/?page_id=5290"},"modified":"2025-01-09T15:26:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T20:26:52","slug":"graduate-students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/libweb\/graduate-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Information for Graduate Students, Medical Students, and Postdocs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Borrowing options<\/strong>: If Brown doesn&#8217;t have what you&#8217;re looking for, request your item through WorldCat. Other <a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/borrowing\/#notbrown\">borrowing options<\/a> are also available, including access to the public libraries in Providence and surrounding communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"float: right; padding: 20px; background-color: #ffc72c; margin: 20px 0px 20px 20px;\">\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Medical Connections<\/h4>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc; line-height: .5; margin-top: 10px;\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/libguides.brown.edu\/health\">Health Sciences Resources<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research consultations with a librarian<\/strong>: Request a <a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/forms\/rescnslt.php\">research consultation<\/a>: One-on-one research consultations with a librarian are available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ask your subject librarian<\/strong> (email, phone, <a href=\"https:\/\/brown.libanswers.com\/\">chat<\/a>, in person): <a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/about\/specialists.php\">Find librarians by subject<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Resource guides: <\/strong>Explore <a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/gateway\/\">subject guides<\/a> on more than 80 topics to find resources by subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Theses and electronic dissertations<\/strong>: <a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/etd\/\">Electronic submission of dissertations<\/a> is available to Ph.D. candidates with expansion to master&#8217;s theses in the near future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Get a carrel<\/strong>: Brown students writing a dissertation or thesis, and Brown faculty members, may apply at the Rock circulation desk or by <a class=\"main\" href=\"mailto:rock@brown.edu\">email<\/a> for the use of a study carrel in the Rockefeller, Sciences, or Orwig libraries.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Find special collections that support your research<\/strong>: <a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/collatoz\/\">Learn more about over 250 collections<\/a> notable for subject matter, age, uniqueness, or value, as well as <a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/cds\/\">available digital collections<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Teaching<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Course Reserves<\/strong>: Use <a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/reserves\/\">Course Reserves<\/a> to place books and other physical media on reserve AND to create electronic reserves: links to ebooks and other online content, digitization of articles, book chapters, full-length movies, short video clips, and audio files. Links to reserves in all formats will be added to your MyCourses site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Library and research skills instruction<\/strong>: <a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/forms\/reqforclass.php\">Research skills instruction sessions led by a subject librarian<\/a> are available at all levels and with a wide range of topics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Customized course guides to research and resources<\/strong>: <a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/gateway\/classes.php\">Customized research guides for your courses<\/a> prepared by your <a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/about\/specialists.php\">subject librarian<\/a> are available as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Instructional Technology Group<\/strong>: <a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/brown.edu\/Facilities\/CIS\/Faculty\/\">ITG<\/a> provides support for MyCourses, course preview pages, course email lists, wikis, blogs, clickers\/classroom response system, and instructional technology consultations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Classroom technology\/Media Services<\/strong>: <a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brown.edu\/mso\">Media Services<\/a> provides equipment, training, and media support for faculty, staff, and students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Professional Development<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Career Development Center<\/strong>: The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brown.edu\/campus-life\/support\/careerlab\/grad-students\">Career Development Center<\/a> provides resources to help you along every step of your graduate career, including preparing for a conference, choosing a research adviser, surviving the dissertation writing process, and guides to the academic and non-academic job search.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Software and skills training<\/strong>: <a class=\"main\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brown.edu\/about\/administration\/workday\/protected\/training\">Workday<\/a> provides free research workshops and software training for the Brown community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning<\/strong>: <a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brown.edu\/Administration\/Sheridan_Center\/\">The Sheridan Center<\/a> provides consulting services, programming, and teaching resources to all members of Brown&#8217;s teaching community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research Borrowing options: If Brown doesn&#8217;t have what you&#8217;re looking for, request your item through WorldCat. Other borrowing options are also available, including access to the public libraries in Providence and surrounding communities. Medical Connections Health Sciences Resources Research consultations with a librarian: Request a research consultation: One-on-one research consultations with a librarian are available. <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/libweb\/graduate-students\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Information for Graduate Students, Medical Students, and Postdocs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":429,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full-width-no-menu.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5290","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5290"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10837,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5290\/revisions\/10837"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}