Hello Graduate Students, and welcome to the Library.
The Library aims to support your success as a graduate, whether you are a first year Master student, or nearing the end of your PhD or post-doc. This site provides an overview of library services and resources to help you navigate academic sources and information relevant to your experience at McMaster.
A message from your Graduate Studies Librarian
My name is Leeanne Romane and I'm the Graduate Studies Librarian. This site is intended to help you navigate library services and resources, and to connect you to grad-related services and information across campus. Have a look around and email me with any questions!
Library Services- New to McMaster Library? Check out this site for information on services that the library provides - everything a new user needs to know.
Grad Study Room - The Grad Study Room on the 4th floor of Mills Library is an area designed for writing and research – complete with large tables and office chairs, a standing work area, comfortable seating, and, of course, internet access.
Library Accessibility Services (LAS) - The Library Accessibility Services office provides assistance to students referred by Student Accessibility Services (SAS). Graduate students can request alternate format library materials from our collection, Accessible Content e-Portal (ACE), Hathi Trust and Internet Archive.
Libraries on Campus - An overview of the 3 libraries on campus, plus the departments in our buildings. For additional information, check out the Spaces site.
Ron Joyce Centre, DeGroot School of Business library
McMaster Health Sciences Library
Data Analysis Support Hub (DASH) - The DASH program is developed to provide assistance with data analysis and software applications such as Excel, SPSS and other statistical softwares, for any course or project with queries about data analytics and software programming.
Recommend a book, film, or journal - you can ask the Library to purchase resources to support your research.
Research Help - this page provides information on Planning your research, Finding resources, Evaluating/Citing resources, and Publishing your research.
Ron Joyce Centre, DeGroot School of Business
Graduate Student Writing Resources
The Writing Centre: Academic Success Workshops
Office of Academic Integrity - information for you as a student and as an instructor
- Graduate Student page
Hamilton Public Library: https://hpl.ca There are a number of branches around Hamilton and near McMaster campus, and the main branch is in downtown Hamilton. As a McMaster student you are eligible for a free library card. With your card, you can:
For one-on-one research help, request an appointment through the Research Consultation form. We can meet virtually or in-person (once we've all returned to campus).
Leeanne Romane, Graduate Studies Librarian, can assist with all non-business research requests, as well as with non-health studies systematic reviews.
Jeannie An, Research Services Librarian, can assist with business related research requests, including MBA/EMBA.
The Library has created a range of Guides to help you with your research skills and with using the library services and resources.
The guides below have been identified as relevant to graduate students and research:
Graduate Guide to Research - your one-stop for graduate studies research information.
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Resources in your Discipline
How to Avoid Predatory Publishers and Conferences
Open Educational Resources (OER)
McMaster Experts - a comprehensive portrait of McMaster faculty research activities
Research Data Management (RDM)
Community Engagement and Research - an interdisciplinary guide for students, staff, and faculty looking to understand the Hamilton context as they engage with off-campus communities through teaching, research, and service.
"How Do I..." - a broad collection of topic-related guides
Boost your research success with Web of Science and Dataverse - October 5, 2022 9:00-10:30am
The Web of Science indexes the world's academic publications (75 million records!). Learn how to use it as a “RADAR” to look into the scientific literature, revealing the research front in your field and what the hot topics are. See how to use the Web of Science to leverage the world's research networks in discovering:
Sharing your research data is increasingly a requirement for publishing in many journals. McMaster Research Data Management (RDM) Services supports your data sharing needs. We can help researchers select a trusted data repository, including McMaster Dataverse (our institutional data repository) which is indexed in Google Dataset Search and other online databases.
RDM is for everyone, across all disciplines. Research data are anything we build from to conduct research, science, scholarship, and creative practice. Data take many forms: spreadsheets, interviews, code, fieldnotes, software, images, and more. Whether you’re considering data sharing as a part of scholarly communication, contributing to collective knowledge, or looking for new collaborations, learn more about RDM!
Boost Your Research with Data Sharing (pdf of presentation)
Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship: September 20, 2022, 2:30-4pm.
With a new school year comes a new slate of Sherman Centre workshops. This year’s slate of 40 (!) events includes sessions on evergreen topics such as digital humanities, data analysis, data visualization, textual analysis, GIS, programming, and RDM, plus new workshops on exciting subjects like machine learning, podcasting, 3D printing, qualitative data, and data sonification (i.e./ turning data into a sound installation. Neat!).
Browse the full slate and register here.
Please note in particular our first event: “What is Digital Scholarship?”, coming up on Tuesday September 20 at 2:30pm.