Research + Outreach Services

Welcome to the Research & Outreach Services page, we are here to support students, faculty, and staff throughout their careers at UW in a variety of ways. There are many ways to connect with UW Librarians: you can email us, text us at 307-460-4336, or use our librarian chat that runs from 10 am – 10 pm every day!

We’re here to help! UW Librarians are here to help students navigate research, including how to find and evaluate sources, citations, and more! You can meet with a librarian in-person, virtually, or by phone. Additionally, you can meet with our library coaches, students trained to support undergrad students in their research process. 

Meet with a Librarian | Meet with a library coach

Get quick help

If you need quick research help, we have many self-paced or tools that can support your research process.

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Research Guides

Our research guides are designed by librarians for different subjects to highlight helpful resources and citation styles relevant to those disciplines.

Explore Research Guides

Self-Guided Learning

You can access our videos and tutorials for support on the research process including using QuickSearch, connecting UW Libraries to Google Scholar, and more!

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Citation Management

If you struggle with citations, Librarians can help you utilize Zotero, a citation management tool which helps you save and organize your citations.

Explore Citation Management

Research Databases

UW Libraries subscribes to a large number of amazing broad or discipline specific databases which can be used to find e-books, articles, primary sources, streaming media, art, and more.

EXPLORE Research DATABASES

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Teaching Support

UW Librarians offer support for information, digital, and data literacies through curriculum design or instruction sessions.

Curriculum Support

UW Librarians are available to offer curriculum design support for information, digital, and data literacies for courses including creating or revising effective research assignments and activities.

Instruction

Librarians are happy to work with classes that have a research component at any course level. These can include brief overview sessions, multiple in-depth sessions tailored to course assignments, as well as embedded instruction in WyoCourses. To request a librarian to work with your course please fill out the instruction request form.

Learning Objectives

Librarians create step-by-step tutorials, research guides, or videos for your classes that support the course assignments and goals. Request a learning object for your course by filling out the instruction request form.

Course Reserves

Instructors may use the Libraries Course Reserves service to make readings and resources easily accessible to their students. This may include library owned physical resources, instructor owned texts, Internet links, videos, open access resources, etc.