Digital Commons promotes discovery, research, cross-disciplinary collaboration and instruction by collecting, preserving and providing access to scholarly work created at Cal Poly.

For information about journal rankings, impact analysis, citation data, dissertations, publishing opportunities and related topics visit the COSAM Faculty Research Guide.

Journal Information Where are you going to publish? Look up information on your favorite scientific journal or discover a new one.

Copyright and Intellectual Property

Lucid Chart Create Professional Diagrams: flow charts, org charts, and more for the web or print; collaborate on a document at the same time; publish flow charts as a web page, PDF, or image.

ticTOCs Journal Tables of Contents Service: Where researchers keep up to date

Welcome to the Library Services to COSAM Faculty Website

The COSAM Librarian provides a variety of research support and instructional services to faculty.

Classroom Visits
Instructors may request classroom visits: one- to two-hour library resource orientations; one-hour presentations that highlight relevant resources for a specific assignment; two-hour library computer lab sessions that allow for research consultation after the presentation; etc. Please take a look at the Library's instruction program statement.

Consulting Services
A variety of consulting services are available to students and faculty including: deliver research assistance to students and faculty; review, evaluate, and assess resources for new courses/programs; develop new innovative learning environments for Blackboard; work with advisory councils to secure specialized resources; and consult on accreditation reviews in regard to support collections.

Research Guides
The COSAM Research Guides Website is a centralized collection of authoritative science and mathematics resources. The website provides access to a variety of comprehensive research guides, databases, search hints, and more.

Senior Projects
Instructors may direct students who are working on their senior project to the COSAM Librarian for research help and person-to-person consultation.

Please contact me if you would like to materials for your course Blackboard site: subject and course specific handouts, homework assignments, and quizzes about information literacy and using library resources.

RSS (most commonly translated as "Really Simple Syndication" but sometimes "Rich Site Summary") is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format.^[2] An RSS document (which is called a "feed", "web feed",^[3] or "channel") includes full or summarized text, plus metadata such as publishing dates and authorship. Web feeds benefit publishers by letting them syndicate content automatically. They benefit readers who want to subscribe to timely updates from favored websites or to aggregate feeds from many sites into one place. RSS feeds can be read using software called an "RSS reader", "feed reader", or "aggregator", which can be web-based, desktop-based, or mobile-device-based. A standardized XML file format allows the information to be published once and viewed by many different programs. The user subscribes to a feed by entering into the reader the feed's URI or by clicking an RSS icon in a web browser that initiates the subscription process. The RSS reader checks the user's subscribed feeds regularly for new work, downloads any updates that it finds, and provides a user interface to monitor and read the feeds. Wikipedia

Here is the place to browse e-journals by subject area.

Kennedy Library Services
For a complete list of Library services visit: Library Services Available To Faculty.