The majority of our electronic databases and journals are restricted for use only by Duke faculty, staff, and students. If you are on campus, the library automatically recognizes your IP address (or sometimes asks for your net ID in order to authenticate).
However, if you are off campus, you will need to log in with your net ID in order to be authenticated, and some resources may even require you to log on using Duke's VPN software.
For theses and dissertations published outside of Duke, check out the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global database. This database contains manuscripts from colleges and universities around the world from 1743 to the present. For theses and disserations published by Duke authors, see ProQuest Dissertations & Theses @ Duke University. You can also look for other Duke-affiliated publications in our institutional repository DukeSpace.
Journal: Be sure that you are looking in both the catalog for the journal and not just through the Online Journal Titles list. While most of our scientific journals are available online, we have many titles (especially older volumes) in print format. Most of these older print journals are located off-site at the Library Services Center (LSC) and will need to be requested. If we don't have your desired journal, you can request the individual article through Interlibrary Request (see below).
Book: If you can't locate the book in the catalog, you can request it through Interlibrary Loan. Use your Duke net ID to log into your Interlibrary Loan Account and be sure to specify as much information as you can about the desired book. If there is a resource you think Duke Libraries should purchase, please submit a Suggest a Purchase form.
Duke Libraries Center for Data & Visualization Sciences (CDVS) offers one-on-one consulting for all your data visualization needs (including posters and presentations!). Check out their Data Visualization Guide for some helpful tips or contact askdata@duke.edu for assistance.
Our professional libraries and their staff can help you find resources specific to environment policy and legislation, market research, and other industry information. Check out Fuqua Business School's Ford Library and the Goodson Law Library.
The Goodson Law Library has an Environmental Law Research Guide that may be helpful. Ford Library subscribes to several databases related to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores of major companies.
Yes! Duke supports EndNote, Zotero, and RefWorks. Within the sciences, EndNote and Zotero tend to be the most popular. Duke offers access to EndNote and Zotero is freely available online.
Check out the section on Citing Sources for tutorials on how to use these tools.
Did you know you can link Google Scholar to Duke University Libraries?
Looking for one-on-one help with a research paper, project, or other concern? 
Schedule a research consultation to speak with a subject specialist. Alternatively, you can reach out to one of our specialists directly:
Be sure to check out our other research guides for interdisciplinary research areas.
