BORROWING

• Your Library Account
• Borrowing
• Library Services for Alumni 

SPACES

• Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center - houses the print collections  in education and the social sciences.
• Library Hours
• Access Policy
• Book group study space or teaching rooms
• Graduate Study Center, Rm 507.
• Weigle Information Commons

COURSE SUPPORT

• Canvas - Course Management System
• Reserves, 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
• ScholarlyCommons - Penn's institutional repository, includes GSE publications.
• Copyright

TRAINING

• Workshops
• Lynda.com -  training videos on software products, technologies, and organizational practices. 

Specific Book  - Search Franklin Catalog. Connect to ebooks, note access / downloading options. For print books, come to the library or login to make requests (see below).

Specific Journal Article - Try an article title search in Franklin Articles+ and, if available, connect to full text. If not online, follow the citation online link to the record page, then click on the PennText link for request options.  Also try a journal title keyword search in the Franklin Catalog to connect to a journal.  

Via Franklin Catalog - Login (upper right corner) and click the Show Availability Details Box for options.  

Request - When item is "Available," request delivery from LIBRA storage to a Penn Library and between Penn Libraries.

Scan and Deliver - Scans of print journal articles and up to 50 pages of a book. Policies.

Books by Mail - If you live outside a 75 mile radius of Penn, have Penn books sent to you.  Registration required and you must have an email address in the Penn Directory. | Policies.

Place on Course Reserves - Faculty can have print works placed on reserves in Van Pelt or have e-resources linked in their Canvas sites.

Faculty Express - For Penn tenure-track faculty. Policies

Relevant request options are also visible when following the PennText links via databases such as Franklin Articles+, ERIC, Scopus etc.

BorrowDirect (BD) and E-ZBorrow (EZ)

• Borrow print print books and DVDs not available at Penn.
• Keep for 12 weeks, no renewal, recorded on your Franklin Catalog account.
• See On-site BorrowDirect borrowing | Borrow Direct Libraries | EZ Borrow Libraries)

Interlibrary Loan (ILL) 

• Form to request print books or media not available at Penn or through BD/EZ.
• Form to request journal articles, book chapters, or pages of a book not available at the Penn Libraries. Ues comment box as needed.

PressReader - PDF version of today's U.S. and International newspapers.  Recent  three months. Create account for additional features.

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

Your PennKey/password are used to access subscription resources. See additional information on Using E-Resources.

BrowZine - browse recent issues of scholarly journals. Create personalized shelves. App available. Does not include all Penn journals.  Search by journal title, ISSN, and subject categories.