Faculty and Staff Services

To see Full Text Finder when you’re using Google Scholar off campus, configure your “Library Links” preferences for Delaware Valley University. If you are on campus, this will happen automatically.

1. Go to scholar.google.com
2. Select “Settings” from the top menu.
3. Select “Library Links” from the sidebar
4. Search “Delaware Valley University”
5. Save "Full text @ DelVal Lib"

On the library website, click the Research Tools menu and select Journals by Title from the dropdown.

We appreciate getting suggestions for journals that will make our collection better. Please contact Peter Kupersmith, Library Director, with your recommendations.

Books and articles not available at DelVal can be requested through the WorldCat Interlibrary Loan Service. This process takes few days but is completely free for DelVal students, faculty, and staff. Before you submit an ILL, check Google Scholar or Summon to see if we have immediate access or if it is freely available online.

Book requests can arrive in several days, while more involved requests can take several weeks. Journal articles are typically delivered within a day or two. Keep in mind that requests submitted Friday through Sunday most likely won’t get processed until Monday.

Renewals are decided by the lending library. Contact Claire Drolet, Access Services Librarian, to see if a renewal is possible.

We welcome instructor copies in order to provide students with access to as many of their required materials as possible. 

Please contact Claire Drolet, Access Services Librarian, with any questions. 

We do not offer scanning services for reserve materials, but you may scan your own materials and make them available on your Canvas or link full-text articles available from one of the Library’s subscriptions.

Fair use is part of copyright law and allows you to use copyrighted materials without permission under certain circumstances. Library Copyright has an online tool to help  you understand if the use of a protected work is a “fair use.” It helps users collect, organize, and document the information they may need to support a fair use claim, and provides a time-stamped PDF document for the users’ records.

If you are adding new materials to your course, interested in a specific title, or in the process of building a course, use this form to see if we can purchase an unlimited eBook license or make an OER recommendation. 

If an unlimited license isn’t available from publishers (which is unfortunately often the case), the library can help you explore free/low-cost alternatives.  

Yes, there are several options for reducing course material costs for your students, ranging from placing your textbook on reserve to adopting or creating an Open Educational Resource (OER).

You can see a list of all of the course textbooks provided by the library on our Course eTextbooks webpage. Most have unlimited access.

Any library PCs can print to Printer 1 or Printer 2 in the library’s Print Center. They can print on 8.5x11" or 11x17", both of which are available in the Print Center and stocked in the machine. We can print to other paper types and sizes if the machine is programmed correctly. Free black & white, color, and double-sided printing are available. Ask a Library Assistant or Librarian to help with special paper requests. 

There are FOUR scanners in the print center. 

ScannX 1 - the smaller of the two, this one is best for single pages and odd sizes. You can close the lid on the scanner to catch the finer details of a page of handwritten notes, or an old newspaper.

ScannX 2 - this is the larger, overhead scanning one. This is best for multiple pages of a book, as it has several features to make the book easier to scan and come out in different formats. 

Printer 1 and 2 (Xerox) - these are best for multiple-page documents, like a stack of pages. It should only be used for a standard size, 8.5x11" page, and it would be unwise to try anything but standard plain paper (i.e. not something delicate or easily torn in the feeder). Documents can be fed into the top and emailed or copied directly as needed using the control panel. 

If you're having trouble accessing an e-resource or any other aspect of research or library service, please email library@delval.edu or call 215-948-4171 for help.

Yes, we’re happy to meet with any of your classes to instruct them in finding and using the information they need for their assignments. Librarians are here to support  students and help them develop the critical information literacy skills needed to select and evaluate sources for academic research – it is our highest priority!​

We will work with you to design instruction to meet the needs of your specific course or assignment. Please contact Karen Sheldon, Electronic and Instructional Services Librarian,  for undergraduate courses and Elise Georgulis, Graduate Instruction and Research Librarian, for graduate courses. 

You can find a list of available research guides on our website. If you would like a guide for your class, please contact Karen Sheldon for undergraduate courses and Elise Georgulis for graduate courses. 

We subscribe to RefWorks, a citation generation service covering hundreds of styles including Chicago Scientific (Author-Date), Journal of Animal Science, and Council of Scientific Editors (Name-Year). Use your DelVal email to sign up.

We also offer a research guide with many citation styles and examples which you can link in your Canvas.

We will be glad to assist you with creating an assignment. Please contact Karen Sheldon, Electronic and Instructional Services Librarian,  for undergraduate courses and Elise Georgulis, Graduate Instruction and Research Librarian, for graduate courses. 

The Krauskopf Memorial Library is proud to offer a new series of modules in the Canvas Commons. These library instructional modules are specifically tailored to meet our student body’s information literacy needs and can be found when you type in "library" in the search bar.

You can also link directly to an individual online tutorial using the links below.