Research Tools & Support
The Drexel Libraries provides access to valuable tools, resources and services to support all stages of your research—from access to information resources and help with citations, to guidance on Open Access and scholarly publishing.
Connect with Librarians
Drexel Librarians are available for virtual or in-person consultations to assist faculty, staff and students with their research. Examples of services offered include:
- Refining research topics
- Developing search strategies
- Finding literature, supporting evidence, data and statistics
Visit the Services page for information on additional Libraries resources and services, such as data management support, teaching and course support and interlibrary loan.
Contact us at librarians@drexel.libanswers.com with questions or to schedule a research consultation. A member of our staff will respond within three business days. We encourage all members of the Drexel community to place requests for research support from the Libraries as early as they are aware of the need. We will manage requests on a first-come, first-served basis.
Find Resources
The Drexel Libraries provides access to print and online resources for use by Drexel students, faculty, and staff, including books, journals, databases, dissertations, videos, and other media.
- DragonSearch: Use our online discovery system to search for books, journals, databases, videos, and other media to support your research goals.
- Access online resources via publisher sites: Our new single sign-on authentication system also allows you to access library resources directly through a publisher or vendor site.
- Databases A-Z: Lists all Drexel Libraries databases. Search the list or filter by subject, type or vendor.
- LibKey Nomad: This free browser extension provided by the Libraries facilitates access to resources as you find them online. LibKey Nomad searches webpages you’re viewing for scholarly citations. If it finds a citation, you’ll see a button that will connect you to the full-text article, if available.
- Borrow from other libraries: Can’t find what you need in our collections? We can get books, journal articles and other materials through our interlibrary loan services.
Research Impact
We provide a broad range of resources to help Drexel researchers demonstrate the impact of scholarly and creative works and to document and increase the visibility of Drexel research worldwide.
Managed by the Drexel Libraries, the Drexel Research Discovery repository collects and showcases the research, scholarship, and creative work produced by Drexel faculty, staff, and students, including scholarly articles, theses and dissertations, conference papers, and research data.
The repository also offers researcher profiles that showcase Drexel faculty expertise to attract funders and new students and enhance Drexel’s academic reputation. Researcher profiles offer several benefits, including:
- Make it easy to showcase your work & the work of your department or college
- Lessen the burden of maintaining your CV
- Save time by sending automatic updates to your ORCID profile
- Make it easier to identify subject matter experts for collaboration
Members of the Drexel community are invited to contribute their scholarship and research data for long-term preservation and worldwide accessibility. Visit our Drexel Research Discovery user guide for more information about updating your profile and adding your work to the repository.
If you identify information gaps or inaccuracies or want to learn more about this collection and how it can serve you, email us at libsystems@drexel.edu.
More Information & Contribute to Drexel Research Discovery
Altmetric Explorer helps you monitor where your research is being talked about online and provides data on policies & patents that cite your research, as well as social media mentions, and newspaper and blog mentions. Researchers can use the Altmetric Explorer to generate reports that demonstrate the broader impact of their work and help support grant applications.
Access the Altmetric Explorer or watch our training videos.
Scholarly Communications & Open Access
Navigating the publishing world can be daunting. The Libraries offers a variety of tools and resources to support you at every stage of the scholarly communications lifecycle. Explore our self-guided tutorials and resource guides or contact us for assistance.
The Drexel Libraries is a strong supporter of Open Access (OA) and making it easier and more affordable for Drexel authors to publish Open Access.
We have negotiated OA publishing discounts with several academic journal publishers to provide free or discounted open access publishing in select journals. Publishing discounts are available to researchers in all disciplines and include publishers like Elsevier, Springer Nature and the Royal Society of Chemistry.
- Citation Management: Learn about the different tools available to the Drexel community that help you store, organize and utilize bibliographic citations
- Copyright: We offer guidance to the Drexel community on copyright and fair use in scholarly research, publishing, teaching and other areas.
- DOI Services: We can help you register a DOI for datasets & other non-published “objects”
- Drexel Research Discovery: The University’s growing repository of research and scholarly outputs, including researcher profiles
Research Data Management Support
The Libraries also provides resources and services that support the use, preparation, management, curation, and preservation of research data.