Temple University Libraries: Resources for Research and Academic Success
Temple University Libraries are a vital component of the university, offering a wide array of resources and services to support the academic and research endeavors of students, faculty, and community members. Ranking among the top university research libraries in North America and holding membership in the prestigious Association of Research Libraries, Temple’s libraries are indispensable partners in study, teaching, and research. Together, they hold more than four million bound volume equivalents and care for thousands of special collections of rare books and primary archival sources.
Comprehensive Collections and Services
Temple University Libraries bring together collections, people, and services to facilitate teaching, learning, and research success. With world-class collections and services, the libraries provide a full range of support for faculty, students, and community members. This includes access to a vast collection of physical and digital resources, expert assistance from librarians and staff, and a network of services designed to assist users during all phases of the research process, including data sharing and publication. One of the libraries is also located at Ambler Campus.
TUScholarShare: Promoting and Archiving Scholarly Works
TUScholarShare is a Temple Libraries service designed to support the needs of the Temple University community around sharing, promoting, and archiving the wide range of scholarly works created in the course of research and teaching. Depositing into TUScholarShare is a free and easy way to improve your work's visibility, reach, and impact. This service offers several key benefits:
- Enhanced discoverability: By depositing your work in TUScholarShare, you can get your research out to more readers.
- Long-term access: This ensures that people can read your work for years to come.
- Better citation and attribution: TUScholarShare helps ensure that you get credit for your work. All items uploaded to TUScholarShare receive a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), a persistent URL that facilitates citation and attribution.
- Support Open Access and Open Science: Items deposited into TUScholarShare are accessible to all.
It may even be possible to share your already published work, even if you are not the copyright holder. Most publishers allow a pre-print or post-print version of a published article to be deposited into your institution's scholarly repository.
Open Access Publishing Support
Temple University Libraries actively support open access publishing, which makes research freely available to the public. Many open access journals are free to read because they charge authors a fee, often called an article processing charge or APC. To help Temple authors with these costs, the Libraries have established several partnerships:
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- Temple authors who publish in a BioMed Central journal will receive a 5% discount on APCs.
- Temple authors who publish in a Cambridge University Press Journal are eligible to have their APC waived.
- Temple authors who publish in SpringerOpen journals will receive a 5% discount on APCs.
In collaboration with Temple’s consortial partner NERL (North East Research Libraries), the Library signed a transformative agreement with Springer Nature. Under this agreement, corresponding Temple authors are eligible to publish their articles open access with fees covered in hybrid journals across the Springer Nature portfolio.
Temple University has also created an institutional membership with BMJ Case Reports so that our researchers can submit new cases to the journal free of charge. BMJ Case Reports offers a high volume of cases in all disciplines so that healthcare professionals, researchers and others can easily find clinically important information on common and rare conditions.
Research Support Services
Temple University Libraries provide a network of services to assist you during all phases of the research process, including data sharing and publication. These services are designed to help researchers navigate the complexities of modern research and ensure that their work is widely disseminated and impactful.
Digital Resources and Databases
Temple University Libraries offer access to a wide range of digital resources and databases, covering various subjects and disciplines. These resources provide access to scholarly articles, books, primary sources, and other materials that are essential for research and learning. Some notable resources include:
- Digital Science Dimensions: A research analytics tool that performs publication and dataset searches for academic use. Access to Dimensions is provided by the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR). Users will be prompted to login with Temple AccessNet ID and password.
- Environmental History: Includes Conservation and Public Policy in America (1870-1980) and Colonial Policy and Global Development (1896-1993). Access guaranteed through May 2027. Department of Education, with the Supplemental Education Index. Access guaranteed through May 2027
- Perspectives on the Chicano Movement: Highlights the Chicano/a experience in the United States and focuses on activists such as César Chávez, Dolores Huerta, Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales, and other leaders of the Chicano Movement, aka El Movimiento. Access guaranteed through May 2027.
- Power to the People: Showcases a range of ideas, initiatives, and social movements devoted to people-powered politics and organizing from the nineteenth through twenty-first centuries. Access guaranteed through May 2027.
- State Papers Online Colonial: Asia: Covers the British Colonies, including Hong Kong, Wei-Hai-Wei, Malaya, Singapore, and Borneo. Access guaranteed through May 2027.
- The International Context: Includes European diplomatic correspondence regarding the American Civil War from Britain, Denmark, and the Netherlands. Access guaranteed through May 2027.
- The Times Educational Supplement (TES): A primary and secondary education news source on public policy and pedagogical practice over the decades, in the United Kingdom and worldwide.
- Trade and Globalization Studies Online: Examines the history of trade, trade policies, financial crises, emerging markets, and technological innovations. The collection gathers books, case studies, archival materials, and documentaries to provide historical context and insights. Access guaranteed through May 2027.
- The World of Archie Comics Archive: Offers access to the backfiles of 100+ publications from Archie Comics, spanning the early 1940s to 2020.
Student Success Center: Writing Support
The Student Success Center provides writing support for all Temple graduate students and residents. Although their services do not specialize in medical writing or scholarship, they can provide feedback on your draft-in-progress, including personal statements and fellowship applications. The Student Success Center does not currently support Temple faculty or staff.
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CAT Poster Printing Services
CAT poster printing services are available to Temple University faculty and staff (not students) on a first come-first-serve basis. Printing requests take up to 3-5 business days to process from the date of submission.
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