LibGuides: For Faculty: A Guide to Library Resources and Services: Faculty Scholarship

Access to Electronic Resources

You can access the library's electronic resources remotely (off campus) with your LIU Brooklyn email user name and password. After the "Remote Access Login Screen" appears, type in your LIU username and password. Click the "LOGIN" button. Database access is limited to current students, faculty, and staff. This guide explains all these steps in photos!

You may call the circulation department at (718) 488-1338 or stop by the circulation desk if you are unable to log into the databases from off campus.

Recommended Books on Faculty Professional Development

These are a list of books from the LIU Brooklyn Library that can help faculty learn more about scholarly publishing and professional development.

Recommended Books

How to Succeed in Academics by Linda L. McCabe; Edward R. B. McCabe
Call Number: e-book
ISBN: 9780520945999
Publication Date: 2010
This new edition of How to Succeed in Academics provides up-to-date mentoring on all aspects of a successful academic career, particularly a career in the sciences. Linda L. McCabe and Edward R. B. McCabe bring decades of expertise and experience to such topics as marketing your ideas through posters, talks, manuscripts, and grant proposals; developing strategies for applying, interviewing, and negotiating for training programs and jobs; establishing professional networks and seeking leadership opportunities; improving your teaching, speaking, and writing skills; and setting goals and creating schedules to achieve them.
A Creature of Our Own Making: Reflections on Contemporary Academic Life by Gary A. Olson
Call Number: e-book
ISBN: 9781438445793
Publication Date: 2013
Witty, savvy, incisive, and entertaining short essays on the culture, mores, and practices of higher education.
Navigating the Academic Career by Victor N. Shaw
Call Number: e-book
ISBN: 9781623961176
Publication Date: 2013
There is an urgent need to provide academic professionals with individual, institutional, and contextual accounts of their careers and career-making endeavors. An individual account makes academicians think about what they do and how they might do it better. An institutional account makes academicians reflect upon the organizational environment in which they function and ponder what they might do to improve it. A contextual account connects academicians and their work to knowledge, the knowledge enterprise, and the larger social structure so that they know and understand the impact they and their career-making efforts have on themselves, academia, and general social processes. This book examines academic careers and career-making activities with respect to their main aspects, milestones, and general pathways. In content, it divides into four identifiable parts. Part I focuses on professional preparation. It examines education, degree, reeducation, job search, and job change. Part II centers on organizational employment. It investigates position, research, teaching, service, and tenure. Part III revolves around professional networking. It looks into publication, conference presentation, application for grants and awards, and membership in academic associations. Part IV rises above specific issues. It explores general career pathways and overall scholarly identity.

Scholarly Publishing and Bibliometrics

The library faculty created a Scholarly Publishing and Bibliometrics LibGuide to help faculty members learn more about bibliometrics and citation analysis in the world of scholarly publishing.

This information can be especially useful for faculty on the tenure track. The guide includes sections on finding an appropriate target journal, journal rankings, citation impact, and recommended reading.

Open Access Journals

Open access journals, which offer content free of charge to anyone regardless of institutional affiliation, are becoming increasingly popular across the academic disciplines. Edward Keane, the Serials/Database Coordinator, created an Open Access and Scholarly Publishing LibGuide intended to provide faculty with useful information regarding the various facets of open access publishing.

The guide covers topics including predatory open access journals, copyright, locating open access journals across the disciplines, and tools for evaluating the quality of open access journals.