Graduate Students
Spaces for Graduate students
The UT Libraries offers many spaces for graduate students. Find your next space:
- Located on the first floor of Hodges Library, the Graduate Commons provides workstations and lounge seats. Just use your VolCard to swipe in! Visit the Parking and Transit website to find nearby parking.
- Reserve a Pendergrass Study Room
Research Support
Take a Virtual Tour of the Libraries
Visit the Spaces section of the Libraries’ website to find your next study spot. You can filter by location, volume, and more!
Need help? Request a meeting with one of our subject librarians. They can help you:
- Refine your research topic
- Develop better search strategies
- Help locate relevant research
- Evaluate sources
- Manage your citations with either EndNote, Zotero, or Mendeley
Scholarly Communication and Publishing
For all UT scholars, a consultation or workshop with Rachel Caldwell, the Scholarly Communication & Publishing Librarian, can help answer your concerns about:
- Copyright
- Publishing:
- Open access publishing, including UT’s Open Publishing Support Fund
- Avoiding predatory/deceptive publishers
- Authorship disputes
- Preserving and archiving research and creative outputs
- Avoiding plagiarism, duplicate publications, redundant publications, etc.
- TRACE open-access archive that features publications and research from the UT community
- Open Educational Resources, including open textbooks
- Public access policies of federal and private funders
- Research Impact Metrics
Learn more on the Scholar’s Collaborative website.
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