Registering your DalCard as your library card
Using library resources from off-campus:
Use the libraries' webpage, libraries.dal.ca. When you click to connect to the database or electronic journal, you'll be prompted for your DalNet ID and password. (These are the same as your Dal email).
Where to look it up:
Register for SciFinder Scholar web: You must access the registration form through the Dal Libraries website, using your NetID and password.) After you have received your individual username and password from CAS, you can access SFS web directly.
Want SciFinder Scholar on your mobile device? Connect here (does not include structure searching module): scifinder.cas.org/mobile
We don't have the article/book you need? Make a request through Document Delivery:
Suggest an item for purchase.
New books in the library? See the list and subscribe to the RSS feed: New Acquisitions
The chemistry list is also available on the home tab of this Subject Guide.
Need help with your writing? Do your students need help? Contact the Writing Centre, located in the South Learning Commons of the Killam Library. Janice MacDonald Eddington at the Centre has a background in the sciences.
The Studying for Success programme may also be helpful to your students. The Studying for Success Office also maintains a list of reliable tutors.
Managing your citations - use a citation manager.
Citation managment guide coming soon (expected mid-September).
Source: How to avoid a data management nightmare, by Karen Hanson, Kevin Read & Alisa Surkis, New York University Health Sciences Library under a CC-BY license.
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