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Services to Ph.D. Students

All new PhDs receive library information at the Fall Quarter Orientation. If you have questions about the Library in general, contact the PhD Liaison, Paul Reist.

 

Reminder -- Fall PhD ORIENTATION 1:00 PM SEPTEMBER 21, 2011 -- Bass Center

 

Research assistance? Send a request to Ask US online .

 

PhD Liaison

The Library maintains an overall permanent liaison, Paul Reist, dedicated to insure service quality for our doctoral students.

A PhD student also serves regularly as liaison to the Library, to convey student concerns.

Area Liaisons

Paul Reist serves as overall liaison, but each of our Faculty liaisons also serves in the following areas for PhDs:

24-hour Access

PhDs have 24-hour access to the Library collection. Please use the self-checkout machine to check out items after hours.

RA Privileges

As a research assistant, you receive privileges on behalf of your professor. Please consult our Research Assistants page.

eJournals

The Business Library and Stanford University maintain access to a growing collection of full-text journals in electronic form. Check our eJournals page for access by title to ScienceDirect, JSTOR and other collections.

Other eResources

  1. Stanford University Libraries offers an impressive array of electronic files in many disciplines. Social science resources are listed at the Social Science Data Service.
  2. A collection of networked business databases is available to you via our Website, under Research Databases.
  3. Financial research tools used on Wall Street are accessible in the Traders Pit in the Library. These include Bloomberg, Datastream, SDC; more information is available at our Traders Pit page.
  4. Wharton's WRDS product is available to the Business School community, a user-friendly, uniform interface to tools such as CRSP, I/B/E/S, TAQ and Compustat. Data can be tapped via Fortran, SAS or using a Wharton-designed interface. To access, see the Research Databases page.
  5. Note that some special databases are available via UNIX, e.g. Berkeley Options. These are listed as such on our databases page. For assistance with these, contact [icon-email] Ravi Pillai
  6. EndNote and RefWorks. For details, see Bibliographic Management Software at Stanford.

Any databases/ journals/ books to suggest? Contact Mihoko Hosoi.

Borrowing

Circulating material in the Library can be checked out at the i-Desk. Recall and search services are available to request material not found on the shelves when needed. Patrons are notified when recalled material is available at the Desk.

The loan period for students is 4 weeks for regular circulating books. Quarterly borrowing privileges are available to doctoral students who have advanced to candidacy, as certified by the Doctoral Office. Please note that all borrowed material is subject to recall after two weeks.

See Borrowing Policies for details.

Reserves

The Reserve Collection contains current course-related material submitted by instructors for the use of enrolled students. Material includes books, past exams, problem sets, notes, readings and assignments. Whenever possible, this type of material is made available via the Web.

InterLibrary Loan (ILL)

The InterLibrary Loan Service provides all Business School students free retrieval of items from outside Stanford University. If the book or article you're looking for is not anywhere on campus, we can try to borrow it from another institution. Retrieval times will vary depending on availability, but you can expect items to normally take two weeks to obtain. To make a request, use this online request system or go to the i-Desk in the library.