Getting Started

Just starting your research? New to using the Libraries' services? See the Research Process Guide with Online Tutorials and Videos.

Libraries staff can provide you with coursework and research support. We offer Research Guides in more than 250 topics curated by librarians to help you start your research. We provide Citation Help with a variety of styles and the tools to manage them. If you have questions, contact your Subject Librarian or stop by the Information Desk on the 1st or 3rd floors of Bird Library, Carnegie Library or King+King Architecture Library.

Helpful research videos include:

• Research Starting Points video
• Searching with Summon video
• Finding Journal Articles video
• Finding a Book video

Our collections cover a wide range of content types, areas of study, languages and time periods and include:

• Print and online resources in the form of databases and digital collections curated to match campus teaching and research needs, with many of these sources unique to Syracuse University.
• Journals spanning all periodical types including popular magazines, trade and industry publications, and academic journal literature
• Extensive and growing collections of eBooks
• Current and deeply historical news and newspaper archives
• Statistical data
• Maps and government information
• Videos available online and on DVD or Blu-ray discs
• Music
• Games, wellness materials and more.