Common Library Terms
- Glossary of Library TermsWhat do they mean by a 'periodical'? What is a database? The University Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign hosts a list of common terms.
- Find Library Terms in a Language Table!In this table you can find the library terms translated into 7 languages including Chinese, Korean, Japanese, French, Spanish, Arabic, and Vietnamese.
Research Resources
- Information for International Students and Visiting ScholarsWhether you're a student getting adjusted, a researcher looking for help, or you're conducting research in non-English languages, we have renowned collections and friendly specialists to assist you.
- Information for Undergraduate StudentsFind and use materials, get help with your papers and projects from specialists, and scout the perfect place to study.
- Information for Graduate StudentsGet access to materials and help from specialists, plus support for dissertation formatting, measuring your research impact, developing digital projects, and more.
- Research GuidesThe Library has a tremendous amount of research guides on many subjects, academic and otherwise. You can use them as a reference tool since they offer many avenues to explore each topic. What you're reading now is in a research guide, so be sure to check others out as well. Every major (and even some specializations within those) has a guide and they can be helpful for your studies.
- Essentials of Library ResearchThis library research guide explains how to go about researching with library sources. It takes you from developing your topic to citing your sources, helping you through the whole process.
- Top 10 DatabasesThough aimed at undergraduate students, anyone can benefit from this top-ten starter list for research databases. Research databases are a way to find sources and articles for your research.
English Language Institute
The English Language Institute is of the university's academic departments. It offers support to international students who are English Second Language speakers, often focusing on graduate-level students. Below are some resources they recommend. To learn more about the ELI's offerings, check out their website and library research guide.
- English Language InstituteHere you can find out more about ELI's resources and schedule consultations to help you select ELI courses and access other language learning resources.
- ELI Research GuideThis is a library research guide that compiles a lot of ELI resources. It might help looking at their quick links in addition to the full website.
- English Language Institute Speaking and Writing StudioIn-person speaking and writing help for international undergraduate students
- English Language Institute Graduate Writing ClinicFree service open to all members of the U-M community, including international students, faculty, staff, and scholars. In Writing Clinic sessions, you will get help identifying your writing strengths and weaknesses, as well as guided self-help designed to help you become a critical, independent writer.
Sweetland Writing Center
- Sweetland Center for Writing - International Student SupportSweetland provides support for all multilingual and international undergraduate students who are making the transition into the U-M community.
- Writing Support & HoursSweetland offers in-person writing assistance for undergraduates.
- Sweetland Undergraduate Writing GuidesShort guides from the Sweetland Writing Center on incorporating quotes, making a stronger analysis, deciding what to argue, and more.
- Sweetland Peer Writing CenterYou can get support (finding and narrowing a research topic, locating a great source, using library databases, creating accurate citations) from a student who works as a peer information consultant.
Writing and Research Guides
Academic writing : a handbook for international students by ISBN: 04155958192006 edition also available: http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/005263896
The Wadsworth handbook by ISBN: 1428291938This book contains a chapter with resources for multilingual and ESL students.
Finding Journals
The Journal search allows you to search for journals available at UM. If you know the title of the journal you can enter it into the search box. If you are not looking for a specific journal you can browse by discipline. If UM doesn’t own the journal you are looking for, we can obtain copies of articles for you via interlibrary loan.
