Lewis Honors College: Getting Started

Dear Lewis Honors College Student,

The guide includes some reminders regarding the basics of research, plus the guide will lead you to more advanced resources for your Honors work. We can help you at many stages of the research process, including identifying appropriate information resources as well as provide guidance for finding resources for literature reviews and many other types of research projects. Please contact me directly or contact us via Ask Us.

Best wishes,

Dr. Stacey Greenwell
Library Liaison to the Lewis Honors College

Need to brush up on your research skills? New to university-level research? Not sure how to navigate UK Libraries' resources?

Consider enrolling in Online Information Literacy, a free, self-paced course in Canvas which was co-developed by your librarian. The course takes around 40 minutes to complete.

All students in the College have access to a variety of resources, and below are a few basic things to get you started.
 

Make sure you can access all your accounts.

• Your InfoKat account: find due dates, renew books, see any fines, track your requests, save records and searches. Learn more about your borrowing privileges.
• Your linkblue account: get off-campus access to databases, articles, e-books, and more.
• Your ILLiad account (uses your linkblue credentials): place orders, renew loans, access articles. Learn more about Interlibrary Loan.
• It's a great idea to create your own accounts in EBSCOhost, JSTOR, Web of Science Core Collection, and other resources to save searches, records, make lists, etc.

You can get in-depth research help.

• You can request a research consultation at any time.
• You can work with a librarian with expertise in a specific subject area.

Know that you can request library materials from around the world.

• You have access to items in our campus libraries, storage, or from other libraries which you can request to pick up at any campus library.
• You can request access to items that UK Libraries doesn't own via your ILLiad account.

You can use rooms in the library for your work. [currently unavailable due to the pandemic]

• Young Library:  study rooms, other meeting rooms.
• Little Fine Arts Library: study rooms, other meeting rooms.
• Science & Engineering Library: study rooms, meeting room.

If you have any questions, please ask your librarian! We're here to help you.

Questions?  
Email, call, chat, text, or visit with a librarian.

UKnowledge is UK's institutional repository that includes faculty and student articles, posters, and other scholarly works plus dissertations, theses, and capstone projects. Lewis Honors College has a collection within UKnowledge.