Does Your Student Need Research Help? Use Navigate’s Alerts!

Beginning Summer 2024, instructors can raise an ad-hoc alert for students who require research assistance. When instructors submit their Library: Research Support Needed alert, a librarian will reach out to each student personally to offer services. Correspondence can be monitored on the instructor’s Navigate homepage under “Alerts.”

For students unfamiliar with library resources, a librarian can help them with:

• An orientation to the library
• Orientations to discipline-specific library resources
• Locating and requesting sources

For students struggling to get started on their research assignment, a librarian can help them with:

• Developing, narrowing, or broadening their research topic
• Developing a search strategy (e.g., keywords for searching)
• Selecting appropriate databases for their research topic
• Identifying primary and secondary sources as well as peer-reviewed sources

For students in a research intensive or capstone class needing help organizing their sources, a librarian can help them:

• Tracking down citations
• Citation management software like Endnote or Zotero
• Cite sources – The Center for Writing Excellence (CWE) can also help here

How the library will provide support:

• Workshops
  • Library 101 (library resources orientation)
  • Discover your topic
  • Gathering your sources
• Research Appointments
  • One-on-one (or small groups for group projects)
  • Online & in-person options

Please reach out to askref@montclair.edu if you have any questions.