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Knowledge Center & Other Libraries

General Information

Our main campus library is in the Knowledge Center (this includes the General Collection, Popular Collection, KC Reference Collection, Special Collections, and KC Government Publications). For music, movies, and language-instruction materials, go to the Multimedia Center on the ground floor of the Knowledge Center. The Knowledge Center also houses the Basque Library, on the third floor. Older books and back issues of journals are in our automated retrieval system (MARS). Request these items in the catalog and then pick them up at the Library Services desk in the Knowledge Center. The DeLaMare Library in the Mackay Mines Building has most of our engineering, geology, chemistry, and physics resources. Savitt Medical Library is located in the Pennington Medical Education building.
The Knowledge Center is open 7:30 AM to midnight, Monday through Thursday (we close at 7 PM on Fridays). Weekend hours are 10 AM to 8 PM on Saturdays, and 10 AM to midnight on Sundays. For other library hours, and for the hours of the Knowledge Center's helpdesks, check the schedule.
Graduate students can reserve studies and carrels and use the Faculty and Graduate Reading Room. In addition, there is general study space throughout the Knowledge Center. Quiet and group study spaces are both available. All floors have group study areas: study rooms on the fifth floor can be reserved, while rooms on floors 2-4 and group study booths in @One are first come first served. The fifth floor is a quiet study floor, and the Tower Reading Rooms on floors 2 and 3 are reserved for quiet study as well.

Accessing Library Materials

Your WolfCard is your library card! The 14-digit barcode on the back of your WolfCard is your library account number, used when you check out library materials and request books from other libraries through our Link+ system.
Log in with your NetID for computer use in the Knowledge Center, off-campus access to electronic resources, interlibrary loan, and requests from MARS.
Return library books at book returns located at the Library Services desk in the Knowledge Center, bookdrops in the lobby of the Knowledge Center, the outside bookdrops on the East and West side of the Knowledge Center, at the back of the former Getchell Library and in front of the Fleischman Ag. Building or at any University of Nevada, Reno branch library. When the library is closed, books may be returned in the outside bookdrops. You are responsible for all materials checked out until they reach the library from which you checked them out.
Circulation FAQ and more information about checking out books.
Borrowing privileges and loan periods
Course Reserves
- More information and library policy
- Off-campus access
Off-campus access to library resources
- You may use your NetID for off-campus access to journal article indexes, electronic journals, electronic reserves, and other resources licensed by the UNR Libraries.
- Instructions
- PPP Internet access accounts
Getting books and articles from other libraries
- Link+ is the fastest way get books from other libraries.
- Document Delivery & Interlibrary Loan Services: for articles, and books not available through Link+.

The Library Catalog

Search the Library Catalog for books, journal titles, government publications, videos.
Search Tips:
- Type your keywords into the general search box to search title, author, subject headings, and content notes. To narrow down your results, use the tags on the right or the options on the left after starting a search.
- If you need more search options, try the Advanced Subject Search, which makes it easy to search by title, author, or LC subject and to combine terms with OR, AND, and AND NOT (boolean operators).
- A Journal and Newspaper Title search will find catalog records for print titles owned by the library and most electronic titles licensed for UNR users. The library catalog does not list individual journal articles. See also Research Resources
View your library record or renew items you have checked out
To place a hold on a book that is checked out, click the Request button at the top of the screen on the book's library catalog record.

Research

Research Resources

Use our subject guides to find articles, web sites, and other resources by subject.
See if a specific electronic journal is available on our website.
Is a specific journal refereed (peer reviewed)? Look it up in Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory. The icon indicates a refereed journal.
Find older journal articles in:
- JSTOR - archives core journals in mathematics, humanities and social sciences
- Selected sources listed in Information Resources for History
Search for books or dissertations in WorldCat, a combined catalog of libraries worldwide
Use EndNote Web to keep track of all your citations.
Find electronic books
Find patent, trademark & copyright information
Find facts and reference information on the Web
Find grant money
Is your thesis research original? Search for UNR theses in the library catalog and search ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. More information

Research Help

Come to the Research and Computing Help Desk on the second floor of the Knowledge Center for help finding books and articles, citing sources, and using the resources linked to from this page. The desk is open 8-7 Monday-Thursday, 8-5 Fridays, and 1-5 on Saturdays and Sundays.
Outside of those hours, use AskUs! to email a question. You can also chat with a librarian Monday-Thursday 11-5.
Style Guides for Graduate Research papers and Theses
What is a scholarly or peer-reviewed journal?
What is a primary source?
Find a subject specialist (a librarian who is familiar with your academic discipline)

Keeping up with research in your field

Current Awareness/Alerting Services
- ScienceDirect - Elsevier, Pergamon, North Holland and Excerpta Medica
- InformaWorld: Scholarly Articles Research Alerting - Taylor & Francis, Carfax, E&FN Spon, Psychology Press, Routledge
- SpringerAlerts - Kluwer and Plenum
Citation Analysis: Using cited or citing resources to build bibliographies
- Web Of Science - Science Citation Index covers 5,700 journals since 1975 and Social Sciences Citation Index covers 1,725 journals since 1975. Search by subject, author and cited reference.
- Journal Citation Reports on the Web - Evaluation tool quantifies relationships among journals by using citation data. Measures: impact factor, citation and article counts, journal half-life. Off-campus access error? Try this!
Preprint Servers: technical papers in preliminary, pre-publication form.
BlogScholar: Academic Blogging Portal
Academic discussion lists on the Web
- CataList, the official catalog of LISTSERV lists - Use the list search to find a list.
- topica - incorporates the former Liszt directory and Tile.net - Browse or search.

Information Technology

General Information

E-mail

UNR NetID

NetId Account Activation
A NetID is required for access to WebCT, Computer Labs, and Library computers

Wireless Network

Specialized Computing Labs

: Resources for working with statistics, mathematics, GIS, and more.
The Dynamic Media Lab: Resources for post-production editing.
Teaching and Learning Technologies (784-6085) provides:
- Multimedia Design and Support
- Classroom Services
- Distance Education
- Graphics
WebCT support for instructors
Set up a new online course, find guides to WebCT course tools & more