Library Services
- Services for Undergraduate StudentsGetting Started with ASU Library
- Ask A LibrarianGet library help over chat, email, phone, FAQs, or in person
- Library TutorialsFind help with General Research Skills, Finding Articles, Using Databases, Citing Sources, and other skills you may need.
- Study RoomsEach ASU Library offers a unique combination of open and enclosed study rooms. Some of these study rooms are able to be reserved, while others are merely open to use on a first come, first served basis.
- Requesting MaterialsRequest materials from an ASU library, an external library, or request scanning a book chapter.
- Accessibility ServicesThe purpose of ASU Library Accessibility Services is to ensure that all ASU students, faculty, and staff have access to our library’s resources and facilities. We offer a variety of library related services and assistive technology for users with disabilities.
Library Guides
- Explore GuidesExplore guides by subject, course, or topic.
LIBKEY Nomad
- LIBKEY NomadLibKey Nomad is a browser extension for most major browsers except Safari that provides instant links to full text content for articles subscribed to by ASU Library.
Libkey authentication is seamless and you don’t have to hunt the library web site for a resource. It provides open access alternatives, when they are available.
After installation, select ASU as your subscribing institution. After that, it automatically scans for scholarly content within the web page you are visiting “wherever you may roam.”
Accessibility Services
- Library Accessibility ServicesThe purpose of ASU Library Accessibility Services is to ensure that all ASU students, faculty, and staff have access to our library’s resources and facilities. We offer a variety of library related services and assistive technology for users with disabilities.
Citing Sources
Why you should cite your sources:
- show proper and thorough research by listing sources used.
- avoid plagiarism.
- give readers information necessary to find the sources used.
- give credit to other researchers, authors, etc.
Academic Integrity & Plagiarism Defined
Academic integrity, student cheating and plagiarism are concerns of the utmost importance to university faculty, administrators, writing center and tutoring staff, librarians and academic advisors. The short, straightforward definitions of academic integrity and plagarism are meant to assist persons interested inunderstanding more about these issues.
Academic Integrity:
Most sources define academic integrity (or academic honesty) as the foundation for academic life. It is the manner in which you behave in an academic environment when you do research, writing a paper or creating a project. The fundamental five values in this academic process are honesty, trust, respect, fairness and responsibility. Academic integrity is the commitment to live by these values. Plagiarism is an aspect of academic integrity in that using another's ideas, words, theories, illustrations or graphics, opinions or facts without giving credit is dishonest.
Plagiarism:
To use, steal or represent the ideas, words or products of another as your own ideas, words or products. Use of someone else's ideas, words or products without giving credit to the author or originator is considered plagiarism.
When using or quoting word for word the words of another person it must be acknowledged. Summarizing or paraphrasing the words or ideas of another without giving that person credit is also plagiarism.
Liaison Librarian - Social Sciences
Deborah Abston
She, her, hers
Contact:
ASU Libraries Downtown Phoenix campus
UCENT Building
Lower Level
UCENT Building
Lower Level
Free Digital Subscription to the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal
- New York Times and Wall Street JournalDigital subscriptions to the Wall Street Journal and New York Times are now available to all current ASU students, faculty and staff. Once you have activated your subscriptions, you can access these news sites via the web, as well as via apps for smartphones and tablets.
