Research Support
- Liaison librarians have specialist knowledge of resources in your field.
- Digital Research Services can help with data management, data visualization, digital scholarship, scholarly communication and more.
- Citation guides for APA, MLA, Chicago and more.
- Data analysis and statistics support for researchers across all disciplines.
- Scholar Commons, a central location for you to archive and promote your work.
- Create Digital, a free domain and web hosting service for digital research projects.
- A growing list of open access publishing opportunities.
Collections
Use FindIt to search for books, articles and more.
- Search scholarly databases
- Search for journals by title
- Request Scan and Deliver service to receive a PDF of an article from our print collections
- Find and request books held in any library in South Carolina through PASCAL Delivers
- Access current and historical newspapers and audio and video files.
Interlibrary Loan can get you materials University Libraries may not have.
Explore our special collections, including rare books, digital collections, government information and maps, educational films, South Carolina political collections, oral history, Moving Image Research Collections, and materials of all kinds about South Carolina in our South Caroliniana Library.
Suggest a purchase to help us build our collections.
Teaching Support
We can:
- Create links in Blackboard for articles, streaming video, ebooks and open educational resources.
- Offer customized library instruction targeted to course assignments.
- Help with finding open educational resources that students can use free of charge.
- Provide facilities and equipment for multimedia class projects such as videos and podcasts.
Notable Resources
- Free subscriptions to the New York Times and Wall Street Journal to all members of the USC Columbia community.
- Audio and video studios that can be used for individual or group projects.
- A Technology Lounge on level 5 that offers temporary remote access to specialized software.
- Technology check-out: short-term loans of laptops, chargers, iPads, camera equipment and more.
Professional Development and Training Workshops
Our SHARPGrads program offers a robust series of free workshops in digital scholarship, computing and library research for graduate students on the Columbia campus.
The Digital Humanities Working Group provides resources and support to scholars in the humanities and social sciences who are interested in using computation to expand the scope of their research.
Our Digital Research Services team hosts workshops and training sessions throughout the academic year.
Study Space
The Graduate Lounge at the front of the Thomas Cooper Library on level 5 is accessible to all graduate students by Carolina Card and offers space for quiet individual or group study.
Thomas Cooper Library offers more than 2,000 seats on seven levels for quiet or collaborative study.
Group study rooms are also available.