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Log into your library account to see loans, requests, blocks, and to renew books, (ILL and BD+ requests do not show on your library account).

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View table of contents of recent issues of scholarly journals in all fields. Create personalized shelves. Search by journal title, ISSN, and subject categories. Does not include all Penn journals.  Downloadable App available. 

The Sage Research Methods  offers more than 1k books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos by world-leading academics in the social sciences.

Set up citation and journal alerts for up to fifteen journals using the free version of JournalTOCs.  Many of the library databases offer the option to set up alerts too.

Lynda.com is an online learning platform with courses on software, technology, and personal development.  Students, faculty, and staff have access to all content. Individual videos are listed in the Franklin Catalog.

Students, faculty, and staff can activate access to the WSJ with a penn email address. To sign up, see these details. Account holders, login directly at https://www.wsj.com.

• Books, Edited Collections, and more

  Use the Franklin Catalog to find print and e-books, edited volumes, handbooks, journal holdings, videos, and more at Penn. Use WorldCat to discover works beyond Penn. Use BorrowDirect/EZ Borrow to request books from member libraries.
• Subject-Focused Databases for Articles and More

  Find scholarly journal articles in subject focused databases in education, language and linguistics, psychology, and other fields.
• Multidisciplinary Databases for Articles and More

  Search Franklin Articles+, Scopus, and other databases that cover many disciplines.
• Reference Works

  Browse a selection of education-related handbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and directories and learn to discover others.
• Dissertations

  Access full-text dissertations from Penn and other institutions of higher education.

Search Franklin Articles+ by citation information (article title, author, DOI etc.) or use the PennText Article Finder.

Through Franklin Catalog.  Login (upper right corner) .        

Click the Options button.  Note these choices:

• Request that "available" items be delivered between Penn Libraries or from LIBRA storage.​
• Books by Mail - have Penn print books sent to you.  Registration required. You must live 75 miles from Penn and have an email address in the Penn Directory. | Policies.
• Scan and Deliver - request scans of print journal articles or up to 50 pages of a book. | Policies.
• Faculty Express - for Penn tenure-track faculty. | Policies.

Have a purchase suggestion? - Write directly to Patty Lynn at lynn@upenn.edu

1. BorrowDirect (BD) and E-ZBorrow (EZ)

Borrow print books not at Penn. 12 week loan, no renewal, displays on your Franklin Catalog account.

More info: On-site BorrowDirect borrowing | Borrow Direct Libraries | EZ Borrow Libraries

2. Interlibrary Loan (ILL) - Request items from other libraries:

⇒ Form to request print books or media not at Penn or via BD/EZ.

⇒ Form to request journal articles, book chapters not at Penn. 

The VAN PELT LIBRARY at 3420 Walnut Street house the print works in education and the social sciences.  Some older works are in LIBRA (Library Research Annex) and can be requested through the Franklin Catalog. All the other Penn Libraries are accessible with your PennCard.

Library Hours  | Access Policy | Borrowing | Teaching and meeting rooms | Book group study space | Study Carrels | Graduate Study Center, Rm 507 

GSE ALUMNI - Library Services for Alumni 

COURSE SUPPORT - Canvas | Print and Electronic Reserves

TECHNOLOGY - Computer Labs and Software at the Penn Libraries | Vitale Digital Media Lab | Poster Printing | Equipment Lending

SCHOLARSHIP & PUBLISHING - Digital Scholarship | Copyright  | ScholarlyCommons - Penn's institutional repository, includes GSE publications.

See our guide on Using E-Resources, including these two tools for easy access for students, faculty, and staff to full-text when available:

• Lean Library Access browser extension
• EZProxy Browser Bookmarklet

GSE - Learn more about RefWorks, Mendeley, and Zotero. Contact Patty Lynn at lynn@upenn.edu with questions or to request one to one training / group sessions on these tools. 

For policy related issues, these two guides with links to Government document sources may be useful: