SCPS Students: Research Resources

Note: All SCPS students must create an Interlibrary Services Account (ILS) to be able to request materials at UVA Library or at libraries outside UVA. See example registration form before you create your own ILS account.

Because we ship requested books by UPS, please be sure and enter a current street address when creating your ILS account.

• Off-grounds access
  See also how-to video

Note: The quickest and easiest way to gain off-grounds access to UVA Databases is to set up a Proxy Server Account. Be sure and use the Alternate login in Step No.1, Request a proxy account.

• Search for books using VIRGO.
  (How-to videos : Introduction to VIRGO / Advanced VIRGO Searching)
  
  
• How to choose a topic. (from Duke Libraries)
  
  
• What is a database? (from New York Public Library, great explanation, but click on the Databases tab at the top of this page to see what UVA has!)

UVA

• Setting up your UVA email
  
  
• Toolkit
  
  
• Guidelines and help for instructors in using Toolkit
  
  
• Blackboard
  
  
• Getting Started with Refworks
  " RefWorks collects, stores and organizes book, article, web and other citations you've found and automatically converts those citations into a properly formatted bibliography. You can also use it to format in-text references, footnotes, or endnotes while you write your paper. RefWorks creates bibliographies and references in APA , MLA, Chicago/Turabian, and hundreds of other formats."