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Services to Ph.D. Students

As a new PhD, you receive information at the Fall Quarter Orientation introducing you to the Library. If you have questions about the Library in general, you may contact your liaison, Paul Reist.

Research assistance? Send a request to Ask a Librarian or contact your Area Liaison (below).

 

PhD Liaison

Jackson Library maintains a permanent liaison on its staff, Paul Reist, dedicated to insure overall service quality for all our doctoral students.

A PhD student serves as a student liaison to the Library, to help convey your concerns; your current student rep is Ming Leung. Feel free to share suggestions about Library service with Taylan or Paul.

Area Liaisons

While Paul Reist serves as Overall Liaison, he and our other Faculty Area Liaisons also serve the corresponding academic areas in the PhD program:

Feel free to consult your area's Liaison should you need research assistance.

24-hour Access

PhDs have 24-hour access [ PDF 74KB] to Jackson Library. Please register for access during regular hours at Access Services to have elevator privileges activated on your ID card.

RA Privileges

As a research assistant, you get special privileges on behalf of your professor. For information on services available to you as an RA, consult our Research Assistants page. To register for all RA privileges at Jackson, please complete a registration card at Access Services.

eJournals

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

Other eResources

  1. Stanford University Libraries offers an impressive array of electronic files in the physical sciences, social sciences and humanities. Resources dedicated to the social sciences can be found listed at the Social Science Data Service.
  2. A collection of networked business databases is available to you via our Jackson Website, under Research Databases. Examples include Business Source Complete for business literature, Thomson Research for corporate financial data, and EIU Country Data for historical country data.
  3. Jackson Library hosts powerful financial research tools used on Wall Street, accessible in the Trader's Pit in the Library. These include Bloomberg, Datastream, SDC; information is available at our Trader's Pit page. A password binder from the Access Services Desk is needed to access
  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 other special databases are available via UNIX, e.g. Berkeley Options. These are listed as such on our databases page. For assistance with these, contact Ravi Pillai
  6. EndNote and RefWorks. For details, see Bibliographic Management Software at Stanford.

Any databases/ journals/ books you suggest we purchase? Contact Kathy Long.

Borrowing

Circulating material in Jackson Library can be checked out at the Access Services 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.

Quarterly borrowing privileges are available to doctoral students who have advanced to candidacy, as certified by the Doctoral Office. Quarterly borrowing privileges are governed by the same general borrowing rules as regular circulating material. The only exception is that circulating books and working papers may be borrowed on a quarterly basis. Please note that all borrowed material is subject to recall after two weeks.

See Jackson 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 ILL form or go to the Information Desk in Jackson Library.