Altmetric Explorer
Altmetric's mission is to track and analyze the online activity around scholarly research outputs.
Services Directory
Search our services and tools below.
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Archives Research
As a center for research and creativity, the University Archives promote translational and innovative uses of primary sources.
Article Processing Charge (APC) Fund
The Libraries offer a number of ways to help you fund open access publishing, from providing funding to maintaining memberships that will help you pay less to publish your research.
Assessment
The University Libraries collects data on its services, collections, and programming to make data-informed decisions in service to the CMU community.
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Bloomberg Terminals
Bloomberg is a powerful and flexible platform for financial professionals that brings together real-time data on all market, news and research, analytics, and communication tools.
Book Club Kits
The University Libraries now offers book club kits for certain titles, similar to those you might find in a public library. Each kit includes a handful of copies of a book, along with a set of discussion questions related to the book and its possible themes.
BrowZine
BrowZine displays recent issues of scholarly journals on your computer or mobile device for easy browsing.
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Carpentries Workshops
Software Carpentry is a non-profit organization that teaches basic computing skills to researchers.
Citations & Referencing
The University Libraries offers several resources that can help you manage your citations. Citation Styles and Management can help you with citation and citation management
Connecting from Off Campus
Current CMU students, faculty, and staff have access to electronic library materials from off campus. All other users must be on campus and request temporary computer access to use electronic materials.
Copy, Print & Scan
The Libraries offers a list of printers, scanners, & copiers available at each location. Step-by-step instructions are posted at the machines.
Copyright & Fair Use
Members of the Carnegie Mellon community are expected to obey the Copyright Law of the United States. Managing your copyrights effectively and using other people's copyrighted work in compl
Course Reserves
Course Reserves are course-related items made available at the request of instructors. Course reserves are available online (as an e-book) 24/7 or as a physical copy held at the circulation desk for short-term use by students.
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Data & Code Support
We offer support for open source coding languages and data science tools for anyone in the CMU community working on research, class projects, or simply learning a new skill.
Data Visualization
Are you currently involved in work that could be augmented by visualizing your data for analysis or to communicate your findings to the public?
Databases, eResources & Tools
Explore an A-Z listing of databases, datasets, and research support tools aimed at assisting students, faculty, and staff members throughout the r
Digital Humanities
The Libraries is dedicated to advancing research and teaching involving humanities data sources in digital humanities and humanities analytics.
Digitization Services
Our Digital Collections feature a wide range of materials including newspapers, maps, manuscripts, letters, publications, and more.
Dimensions
One of the largest linked research knowledge databases bringing together information on publications, grants, patents, clinical trials, policy documents and datasets into a single place for improved global discovery and analysis.
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Eaasi
The CMU Libraries host a node of the EaaSI (Emulation as a Service Infrastructure) network, a resource which allows for in- browser emulation of legacy software and operating systems. The CMU EaaSI server can be used to facilitate emulation for a class or research project.
Elements
Elements is the shared research information management system at CMU, which collects and maintains academic and research activities in one convenient location.
Evidence Synthesis Service
The University Libraries provides evidence synthesis support to CMU students, researchers and staff.
EZBorrow
If your materials are unavailable from the CMU Libraries, you may be able to borrow them from another library using EZBorrow, a consortium of 60+ academic libraries.
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Find a Study Space
Need a place to study? Looking for a room to work on a project?
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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Services
Geographic Information Systems are tools that allow you to manipulate spatial data. Spatial data include vector data (e.g., shapefiles), raster images (e.g., GeoTIFFs), LiDAR, and others. Spatial inquiry and analysis is of growing interest in multiple disciplines.
Google Scholar
Want to get more out of something you already use? Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.
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ILLiad
If your books, articles, theses, or other materials are unavailable at CMU, you may be able to borrow them from another library using ILLiad. Getting Started
iThenticate
iThenticate is a plagiarism prevention tool that compares documents (including journal article manuscripts, proposals, research reports, thesis, and dissertations, etc.) against millions of published
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Journals & Newspapers
The Journal and Newspaper Search in the catalog will tell you if we have print and/or online subscriptions for a journal o
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Keenious
Keenious is a powerful recommender tool that leverages search algorithms and AI to analyze text to recommend relevant research articles and topics to enhance the research process and aid in serendipitous discovery.
KiltHub Repository & Collection
Provided by the University Libraries, KiltHub is the comprehensive institutional repository and research collaboration platform for research data and scholarly outputs produced by members of Carnegie Mel
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LabArchives
LabArchives is an Electronic Research Notebook that can be used for securely storing, sharing, searching, and managing research data in any field or as a lab manual and notebook
LibKey Nomad
LibKey Nomad is a browser extension that facilitates access to the Libraries' full text resources as you find research on the web.
Library Publishing Service
The Carnegie Mellon University Libraries Publishing Service (LPS) supports scholarly journals, online exhibitions, and other open access digital projects to promote learning, share research,
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Mendeley
Mendeley is a free tool to help you organize and manage PDFs. It allows you to cite sources in Word and create bibliographies in nearly any citation style with the click of a button.
My Account
When you sign in to your account with your Andrew ID, you can: view account and renew items, place holds and book technology and equipment, view full search results (some databases only show results when you're signed in), export to citation managers, and create favorites lists.
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Open Access
Providing open access to research and scholarship has become a worldwide movement serving the mission of higher education. As a world-leading research institution, Carnegie Mellon is a major creator and consumer of scholarly materials, and sees open access as strategically important.
Open Access Agreements
The term open access (OA) describes the practice of making scholarly research outputs freely accessible online and easily discoverable in an Internet search.
Open Educational Resources (OER)
Open Educational Resources (OER) are free, openly licensed, and open-access teaching materials. OER reduce financial access barriers to students by lowering the costs of textbooks and course supplies, helping to make higher education more equitable and accessible.
Open Science & Data Collaborations
Open Science & Data Collaborations (OSDC) is a University Libraries program supporting collaborative, transparent, openly accessible, and reproducible research across all disciplines at Carnegie Mellon University.
Open Science Framework
Developed by the non-profit, Center for Open Science, OSF has a number of features that support open and reproducible research.
Open Source Programs Office (OSPO)
The open source programs office (OSPO) raises awareness and capacity for open source software to better develop, manage, curate, and share it for research, education, translation, and broader impact.
ORCiD
ORCiD (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a non-profit, platform agnostic registry of unique author identifiers. It will distinguish you from other researchers throughout your scholarly career.
Overleaf
Overleaf is designed to make the process of writing, editing and producing your research papers and project reports much quicker for both you and your collaborators.
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Permission to Publish
Are you interested in using materials from our archival collections in your research, art, or publication? We are happy to work with you to find a solution.
protocols.io
The protocols.io platform is a free and open access repository for recording and sharing detailed up-to-date research methods and protocols.
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Redivis
Redivis is a cloud platform for storing and working with datasets, including sensitive data types and big data. CMU affiliates can host datasets up to 1 TB for free on the platform.
Reference Shelf
This guide will show you some of the general resources the University Libraries have to help you with your studies and research.
Requesting from Other Libraries
If your materials are unavailable at CMU, you may be able to borrow them from another library using Interlibrary Loan (ILLiad or E-Z Borrow services). Request books only from participating libraries. Follow the links below for step-by-step instructions on how to use each service.
Research Data Management
What services do the Libraries offer to support research data management for researchers, faculty, and students across all disciplines at CMU? What are recommended practices for data management planning? How do you create robust metadata?
Research Guides
Our A-Z list of Research Guides is sorted by group, subject, course, or librarian/specialist. We have guides tailored to classes and subject areas—see if we have one that can help you.
Research Metrics Services
The University Libraries provides research metrics support to CMU students, researchers, and staff. Research metrics is the measurement of the impact of published research based on various metrics.
Research/Reference Help
Our personnel are information specialists with extensive knowledge of disciplinary information sources and methods who can help with everything from a first-year assignment to dissertation work and grant-funded research projects.
Reserve a Seat or Study Room
Are you looking to reserve a seat or space within Hunt and Sorrells Libraries?Reserve a Space
Resources for Remote Instruction & Research
As you prepare for hybrid or online teaching and research, the Libraries can provide solutions that reduce your preparation time, enhance your students' experience, and make your research more productive.
RIMS - Research Information Management Services
Research Information Management Services (RIMS) brings together information about scholarship, creative practices, and funded research endeavors, as well as teaching, service, awards, and leadership accomplishments.
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SciVal
SciVal is a web-based analytics solution that provides comprehensive access to the research performance of over 20,000 research institutions and their associated researchers f
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Tableau
Tableau is a software that helps you create more dynamic and appealing visualizations for your class projects, research, or just for fun!
Teach with Special Collections
Special Collections hosts courses, research seminars, and workshops.
Technology Lending
The Libraries has a growing collection of devices available for you to borrow, including iPads, calculators, charging cables, headphones, portable DVD drives, music foot pedals, and more.
Text & Data Mining
Text and data mining (TDM) are becoming increasingly popular ways to conduct research.
Thesis & Dissertation Deposit
As per Carnegie Mellon’s Student Handbook, most graduate students are required to submit copies of their theses and dissertations to the University Libra
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Workshops
The Libraries' workshops – which are offered by the Libraries each semester on a variety of topics – are designed
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Zotero
Zotero is a free, open source tool for helping you collect, organize, cite and share your research sources.