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Orienting Yourself: What New-to-Yale Researchers in Physics, Earth & Planetary Sciences, and Physics Need to Get Started: Home

Welcome to Yale! This cross-disciplinary subject guide is designed to get you familiar with the research resources we have available for you at the university, including our collections, our people, and our institutional partners.

Important Spring 2022 Updates

For up-to-date information on COVID-19 and library services, including onsite vs. virtual vs. hybrid services; checking out materials; and study spaces, please visit the Library's statement on COVID-19. The “COVID-19 & Yale Library Online” page contains up-to-date information (and a link to an FAQ) about available services. More information about Yale's COVID-19 policies and current alert levels are here. 

If you are not on campus right now, please visit our remote access page.

  • Most library resources are available via a URL proxy prefix, but you can also download and install the VPN. Being connected to the VPN makes our electronic resources behave as if you were connected to YaleSecure.
  • Resources accessed from the library website and catalog will automatically use the off-campus access URL prefix. If you are off-campus, not on the VPN, and NOT accessing a resource through the library website, the prefix is https://yale.idm.oclc.org/login?url= ... and you would get to JSTOR by putting that in front of the JSTOR URL: https://yale.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://jstor.org
  • Sometimes, we have access to a resource through an aggregator, not the publisher's website. In those cases, checking the library website for access is very useful.

We have a purchase request form if you need something that is not currently available.

Welcome

Welcome to Yale!

This guide replaces a paper handout that I once gave to students about what I can do for you at Yale. It contains information and links to key resources that will help you settle in over the next few months, so please bookmark it!

  • A guide to the services that I offer as your subject librarian.
  • Information on how to contact me to schedule a one-on-one or group appointment.
  • Quick tips information: How to browse in the catalog, find dissertations & theses, and use some of our databases' additional features.
  • Links to borrowing policies, our guide on how to find things we don't have, and subject-specific guides.

OFF CAMPUS?

Are you accessing resources while not connected to the Yale Network (ethernet or YaleSecure)? This page has information about how our remote access works. You can also connect to the Yale VPN (see the software library), which will make it look like you're on campus.

Your Library: Marx Science and Social Science Library

A panorama of one of the Marx Library study rooms showing comfortable seating, computers, and friendly staff.

How do you access materials? See below!

Marx Library is your service hub. We have an upper level space that is excellent for collaborative work and consultations and a lower level "quiet area" for when you really want to hide from the world and work. Depending on which location is easier for you to access, you can request materials for pickup in any library. Print books about physics, astronomy, and earth and planetary sciences are primarily located in Marx Library (recent and high-use items) or our offsite shelving facility, LSF (lower-use and older items).

Online collections are available in our subscription databases. See the "Off Campus?" box for info about your options when not on the Yale network.

Subject-Specific Research Guides for You

Guides I curate on subject-specific resources can be found below. Some will be useful to you personally, and others — like the guide for nonscientists — will be essential if you are TAing a course in which nonscience major undergrads are writing papers.

Your Librarian

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Kayleigh Bohemier
Contact:
Please email me or use the Schedule Appointment button. Appointments will happen using Zoom or other videoconferencing software. Zoom has a phone option for those who need to call in. Depending on current pandemic restrictions and library policy, an in-person option may be available in the scheduler.

My default ONSITE days are Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday. I am OFFSITE most Mondays and Thursdays.

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Marx Science and Social Science Library (formerly called CSSSI)
Office C41
219 Prospect Street
Concourse Level
Kline Biology Tower
203-432-9519

Land Acknowledgement

"Yale University acknowledges that indigenous peoples and nations, including Mohegan, Mashantucket Pequot, Eastern Pequot, Schaghticoke,Golden Hill Paugussett, Niantic, and the Quinnipiac and other Algonquian speaking peoples, have stewarded through generations the lands and waterways of what is now the state of Connecticut.  We honor and respect the enduring relationship that exists between these peoples and nations and this land."

For more information on the land acknowledgement, please look here.