Resource Library

McDougal Graduate Student Center

he Resource Library is a non-circulating self-service reference library located in Room 120 HGS, and is open Monday-Friday from 9am-5pm.  The collection includes focused books for grad students & recent PhDs on the subjects of Careers, Teaching, and Writing. Materials can be checked out for closed reserve for 3 hours in the McDougal Center. Users can make copies on the ITS student copier in the McDougal Cluster in the basement. The library also collects web links and resources online useful to grad students, as listed below.

Note that Teaching books are located in the Graduate Teaching Center, 120 HGS.

RESOURCE LIBRARY BOOKS
Books Available for Closed Reserve This links to a searchable database of books.

FELLOWSHIPS DATABASES & ONLINE RESOURCES
Online Searchable Databases for Fellowships & Grants

HANDOUTS & MATERIALS
The Resource Library maintains a small collection of articles and handouts, an a large library of GCS Career Resources Online, like model CVs, resumes, and presentations. Some materials are available in hardcopy at the McDougal Center, so please ask the staff of the relevant office.

Questions or Suggestions: If you have specific questions, comments or suggestions for books, resources or links, please contact the McDougal Center at mcdougal.center@yale.edu

WEB RESOURCES

Careers
GCS Career Resources Online @ McDougal Center

Teaching
GTC Teaching Resources Online @ McDougal Center. An excellent online bibliography of books, articles, research and web sites on college teaching. (Complied at Indiana University, Bloomington.)

Dissertation
Dissertation Resources

Academic Writing Programs @ McDougal Center

Grad School Humor
PhD Comics By Jorge Cham

General Grad Student Links
Graduate Student Resources on the Web! Site designed as a resource for current and future grad students, who are thinking about applying to, attending, finishing, (or leaving) grad school. (Creator of web page associated with University of Michigan at Ann Arbor)

H-Grad. An electronic network for students around the world. H-Grad is part of the Humanities OnLine initiative (H-Net) and is designed to provide graduate students with a safe, graduate student only forum for discussing a wide variety of issues related to graduate school in humanities professions.

Resources & advice for students The Keogh Lab Provides advice on how to write a successful grant proposal, give a good talk or publish a scientific paper as well as other student resources. (School Source: The Australian National University)

Information for graduate students & those considering graduate study in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering.  Website contains pointers to information for current & prospective students in CS, Comp. Eng & EE  (School Source: University of Maryland Baltimore County)