Services for Faculty

Faculty and students at SFU have access to over 2.5 million print and microform volumes and 2.9 million online items, including:

• 1,350,000 books and 170,000 ebooks
• 6,000 print and 63,000 ejournal subscriptions
• 500 databases, plus maps, data sets, slides, online images, films, DVDs and sound recordings.

• Browse research guides by your subject area
• Journal article indexes and databases in your areas of research
• Electronic journals by subject.
• Scholarly publishing
  • Learn about changes in academic publishing.
• Recommend materials for acquisition
  • Contact your liaison librarian or department representative.
  • Faculty input is one of the most important factors in helping us build our collections.

• Library instruction
  • Contact your liaison librarian if you would like your students to benefit from an in-person or online library research class, web guide or online tutorial.
• Reserve services for faculty
  • Books, photocopies, personal copies, online articles/websites
  • Lecture notes, overheads, quizzes, assignments, etc.
  • Making readings available.
• Booking films for classroom viewing
  • A collection of documentary, art and feature films in DVD, VHS, and 16mm  formats is available in the Media Resource Centre. Most of the titles in the film collection are licensed for non-theatrical public performance use at SFU.
• Understanding and avoiding plagiarism online tutorial
  • An interactive online tutorial to help students learn to recognize plagiarism and develop skills to avoid it, such as correct citation of sources, note-taking, and paraphrasing. Email lib-learn@sfu.ca to incorporate this tutorial into your WebCT courses.
  • A Canvas version of the Plagiarism Tutorial has been created and is being piloted by SFU's Teaching and Learning Centre during the 2013 term. Please stay tuned for updates.
• Resources to enhance your teaching
  • Links to general and discipline-specific journals and books available through the Library.
• Copyright
  • General information about copyright ownership and protection, creator and user rights,
  • Information on Canada’s copyright law and SFU’s copyright policies and procedures,
  • How copyright materials may be used for an educational purpose,
  • Frequently asked copyright questions
• Exam bank
  • Library reserves hosts an online exam bank to make old exams available to students for study purposes.
  • Participation is voluntary and exams are retained in the Exam bank indefinitely.

• Interlibrary loan and document delivery
  • Free of charge.
  • Fulfillment in 3 to 14 working days and email notification.
  • Choose your pick up location.
• RefWorks
  • A web-based bibliography and citation database manager.
  • RefShare - post class reading lists, facilitate group work and exchange references.
• Off-campus bookmarklet
  • Add this tool to your web browser to access SFU library resources without having to navigate the library's entire website.
• Current awareness services and tools.
  • New book reports.
  • RSS feeds and journal table of contents.
  • Alerts from publishers and databases.
• Canadian reciprocal borrowing agreement
  • Borrow books directly from another Canadian University Library.
  • Visit the Loans desk of any branch before visiting the remote location.
• Journal Citation Reports (JCR) on the web
  • Find the impact factor for your favourite journal.