Graduate Student Resources

Private study carrels (rooms with a desk, chair, and small bookshelf with a locking door) are available to currently enrolled graduate students. All carrels are located on the top floor of the library, the Graduate Student Floor: Mezzanine C.

Interlibrary Loan services give graduate students access to books and articles not available in the University Libraries collections. This is a free service. Article requests are typically processed and received within 48 hours. Print book requests take longer because they are mailed, but e-books can be requested through ILL, if available.

Predatory publishers come in many different shapes and sizes. From unsolicited e-mails to lack of peer review, predatory publishers look to entice researchers with quick and easy publishing solutions. This guide will provide tools and resources to help you determine which publishers to avoid.

The Scholar Support and Data Services (SSDS) Department offers consultations and workshops on data science, data visualization, digital humanities and scholarly communication.

The Research and Instruction Department offers course-integrated instruction, personalized research consultations, workshops, and online resources to support academic success.

The Department of Archives & Special Collections contains archival papers, photographs, films, and sound recordings related to Mississippi, the Blues, the University of Mississippi, and the American South. The four units within the department are General Special Collections, the Blues Archive, the Visual Collections, and the Modern Political Archive. Please schedule an appointment before visiting the Archives archivesdept@olemiss.edu

In 2018, our library received the "Best in the Nation" award for government documents. To find government information, search the UM Library Catalog or Government Documents Databases or Government Information Guides. A federal depository since 1883, the Library is the Regional Federal Depository for Mississippi and holds the largest federal documents collection in the state. It is also a Mississippi state documents depository. We receive all government publications distributed through the U.S. Federal Depository Library Program (Title 44, USC) and through the Mississippi State Depository Program.

In 2017, AICPA Librarian, Dr. Royce Kurtz, received the "Lifetime Achievement" award from Accounting Historians for his work in preserving materials for AICPA. He is the only non-accountant to receive this award. The University of Mississippi Library provides access to the AICPA library collection via its online library catalog and the Digital Accounting Collection. Members of the AICPA may borrow books from the circulating collection. While only students and faculty at UM have direct access to the online databases and electronic journals, the AICPA Library staff will conduct searches in these products for AICPA members. Anyone may use the library catalog or eGrove to find AICPA collections.

This makerspace is located on the 1st floor of the library directly beneath Starbucks. It includes: Virtual Reality, 3D Printing, Poster Printing, Sewing Machines, Legos, Electronic Kits, Adobe Creative Cloud, and other hands-on materials. Please make appointments with Sarah Katherine Glass at idealab@lib.olemiss.edu

Reserve this Video Recording Room or the Video Editing Suite by contacting Sarah Katherine Glass at idealab@lib.olemiss.edu as space is limited.

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eGrove, the University of Mississippi’s Institutional Repository, is freely available to researchers worldwide. UM graduate students can choose to have their theses and dissertations uploaded into eGrove at no cost. Student organizations, such as the Grad Student Council, may also want to upload materials into eGrove. eGrove provides free online access to the intellectual output of researchers at the University of Mississippi, including: open educational resources, open access journals, theses and dissertations, university archives, data sets, images, conferences and symposia, scholarly papers, and articles.

Use this link to browse theses and dissertations from UM. If you would like to remove your work from eGrove, or embargo your content, please send an email to: egrove@olemiss.edu

Full texts will need to be submitted. Note: you may choose to delay making the publication publicly visible to comply with publishers' embargos.