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      1. Birks Reading Room
        1. About the Birks Reading Room
        2. Staff
        3. Virtual tour
      2. Education Curriculum Resources Centre
        1. About
        2. Staff
        3. Virtual tour
      3. Humanities and Social Sciences Library
        1. About
        2. Activities
          1. McGill Little Free Libraries (LFL)
          2. Tabling
        3. Spaces
          1. Floor plans
          2. Self-serve reserve room
        4. Staff
        5. Virtual tour
      4. Islamic Studies Library
        1. About
        2. Staff
        3. Virtual tour
      5. Macdonald Campus Library
        1. About the Macdonald Campus Library
        2. Seed Library
          1. Seed library catalogue
          2. Register
          3. Borrow seeds
          4. Return seeds
        3. Staff
        4. Virtual tour
      6. Marvin Duchow Music Library
        1. About
        2. Audiovisual Archives of the Marvin Duchow Music Library
        3. Staff
        4. Virtual tour
      7. Nahum Gelber Law Library
        1. About the Nahum Gelber Law Library
        2. Staff
        3. Virtual tour
      8. Osler Library of the History of Medicine
        1. About William Osler
        2. About the Osler Library
        3. Awards and grants
          1. Dr. Dimitrije Pivnicki Award in Neuro and Psychiatric History
          2. Dr. Edward H. Bensley Osler Library Research Travel Grant
          3. Mary Louise Nickerson Travel Grant
          4. Michele Larose – Osler Library Artist-in-Residence Programme
          5. Molina Foundation Osler Library Medical Student Research Awards
        4. Exhibitions and lectures
        5. Friends of the Osler Library
        6. Osler Library Newsletter
        7. Staff
        8. The Pam and Rolando Del Maestro Family William Osler Medical Student Essay Awards
          1. Past winners
        9. Virtual tour
      9. Rare Books and Special Collections
        1. About
        2. Book Arts Laboratory
          1. The Presses
          2. Bibliography
          3. Contact us
        3. Copying & reproduction
        4. Key resources
        5. Reading Room
        6. Research grants
          1. McGill David Hume Research Travel Grant
            • Recipients
          2. Raymond Klibansky Collection Research Grant
            • Recipients
        7. Special collections
        8. Staff
        9. Tours and Class Visits
      10. Schulich Library of Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, and Engineering
        1. 3D Printing
          1. Regulations and Registration
        2. About
          1. Mossman Collection on the History of Science and of Ideas
        3. After-Hours Access
        4. Off-campus access to McGill Libraries' e-resources for hospital affiliates
        5. Staff
  • Using the libraries
      1. Welcome to the McGill Libraries
      2. Accessing online resources
        1. Accessing Full Text while using PubMed
        2. Common ‘how-to’ fixes for online resources
        3. E-resources in Sofia
        4. E-resources known issues and upcoming maintenance
        5. EZproxy
        6. Licensing and conditions of use
        7. Logging on to databases and resources
        8. McGill Library links in Google Scholar
      3. Art and distinctive collections
        1. Digital collections
          1. Digital exhibitions
          2. Finding aids and collection guides
          3. Digital collection data
        2. Exhibitions
        3. McGill University Archives
          1. About
            • Policies
              • Private holdings
              • Terms of Reference
          2. Archival resources
            • Accessing Archival Records
            • Archives FAQs
            • Citing Archival Sources
            • Copyright
            • Searchable databases
          3. Records management
            • General information
            • McGill University Records Retention Schedule (MURRS)
            • Transferring records
          4. Staff
          5. Virtual exhibits
            • Campus life
              • Campus life during WWII
              • Dance at McGill
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              • My Fur Lady
              • Student unrest, 1968-1970
              • Time capsule
              • Women's Union and the war effort
            • McGill facts and institutional history
              • Campus buildings
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              • Nursing
              • Royal Victoria College
            • People
              • Abraham de Sola
              • Carrie Derick
              • Maude Abbott
              • William H. Donner
            • Virtual exhibit sites
              • Ian C. Pilarczyk's Picks
        4. Music special collections
          1. 19th Century French Sheet Music Collection
          2. Bernard Gagnon Fonds
          3. Charles Reiner Collection
          4. Collection Noël-Vallerand
          5. Dale Bartlett Collection
          6. David Edelberg/Handel Collection
          7. Donald Mackey Collection
          8. Edith and Luciano Della Pergola and the Opera McGill Collection
          9. Eric McLean Collection
          10. Gian Lyman Collection
          11. Hellmuth Wolff Organ Collection
          12. Julius Schloss Collection
          13. Kelsey Jones Collection
          14. Ladies Morning Musical Club Collection
          15. Marvin Duchow Collection
          16. Marvin Duchow Music Library Online Scores and Treatises
          17. McGill Electronic Music Studio Archive
          18. McGill Sheet Music Collection
          19. Montreal Mendelssohn Choir and Joseph Gould Collection
          20. Paul Helmer's Growing with Canada Collection
          21. Paul Pedersen Collection
          22. Pauline Donalda Collection
          23. Renaissance music Manuscripts (MSS) on microfilm at McGill
          24. Renaissance printed music on microfilm at McGill
          25. Richard Coulter Collection
          26. Roger Doucet Collection
          27. Sonde Collection
        5. Osler special collections
          1. Anatomical atlases
          2. Bibliotheca Osleriana
          3. Frank Dawson Adams Collection (geology, mineralogy, volcanology, and paleontology)
          4. Norman Bethune Collection (Osler Library Archival Collections - P156)
          5. Osler Library Almanac Collection
          6. Paris Medical Theses Collection
          7. Sir William Osler Collection
          8. Wilder Penfield Archive (P142)
        6. RBSC special collections
          1. Archival collections and manuscripts
          2. Arts and architecture
          3. Canadiana
          4. History of ideas
          5. History of the book
          6. Literature
          7. Maps
          8. Norman Friedman Boy Scout Collection
          9. Political and regional history
          10. Religious studies
          11. Social and cultural history
          12. The sciences
      4. Article/chapter scan service
      5. Borrowing from McGill Libraries
        1. Library cards, accounts, and notifications
          1. Students, permanent staff, and retirees
          2. PhD students
          3. McGill faculty
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          10. Proxy borrowers
          11. Community members
        2. Loan policies
          1. McGill users
          2. Non-McGill users
        3. Renewals and recalls
        4. Browsing and borrowing in-person
        5. Requesting items
          1. McGill students
          2. PhD students
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          4. Permanent staff
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          10. Visiting scholars
          11. Research assistants/associates
          12. Other patrons eligible for a borrowing card
          13. Proxy borrowers
          14. Community members
        6. Returning items
        7. Overdue fines
        8. Lost and damaged items
        9. Other borrowing services
          1. Course lecturer extension
          2. Distance borrowing
          3. Faculty research card
          4. PhD extension
          5. PhD research card
      6. Borrowing from other libraries
        1. Request physical items from Quebec university libraries
        2. Borrowing in person at other universities
        3. Borrowing in person at partner libraries
      7. Citation guides & software
      8. Computers, software & equipment
        1. Authentication and network access
        2. Computing at McGill
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        4. Workstations
      9. Course guides
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        1. Electronic exams (e-exams)
      11. FAQ
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      14. Interlibrary Loan
        1. Other library catalogues
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      16. Services for alumni
        1. Electronic resources for alumni
          1. Electronic Life Sciences Resources for Alumni
      17. Study areas
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        3. Spaces for graduate students
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  • Research services
      1. Collections
      2. Digital Scholarship Hub
        1. Contact us
        2. Our team of experts
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      3. Digitization
      4. Finding data and maps
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      6. Open access
        1. Article Processing Charge Support
          1. Open Access Publishing Glossary
        2. Finding legitimate OA publishers
        3. Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQ) Open Access Policy
        4. Get help with open access
        5. How to make your research open access
        6. McGill Libraries Principles for Funding Open Access
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        9. Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications
          1. Check journal compliance with Tri-Agency and FRQ open access requirements
        10. Why you should make your work open access
      7. Persistent Identifiers (PIDs)
      8. Research data services
        1. Deposit your research data
          1. McGill Dataverse
        2. Make a data management plan
      9. Scholarly publishing
        1. Current journals
        2. Starting a journal
          1. Migrate an existing journal to Open Journal Systems (OJS)
          2. Start a new journal
      10. Subject guides
        1. Agriculture & environmental sciences
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        6. Physical sciences & engineering
      11. Web Archiving
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        1. Library Research Skills
        2. MyResearch graduate seminar series
      13. eScholarship@McGill Open Access Repository
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          1. eScholarship Open Access Repository - Submission Form
        4. McGill student research legacy project
        5. Policy
  • Instructional support
      1. Checklist for instructors
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        1. Downloadable and streaming media
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        1. Commercial textbooks challenges
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          3. Creating persistent links
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      14. Publications
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Software

Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop allows you to edit, composite, and create beautiful images, graphics, and art.

HSSL main floor (034-108-DHUB-05 through 06)
Schulich Level 4, room 410 (034-170-FLR4-07 through 08)

Premiere Pro

Adobe Premiere Pro provides industry-standard pro video and film editing.

HSSL main floor (034-108-DHUB-05 through 06)
Schulich Level 4, room 410 (034-170-FLR4-07 through 08)

Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator allows you to create vector art and illustrations on desktop.

HSSL main floor (034-108-DHUB-05 through 06)
Schulich Level 4, room 410 (034-170-FLR4-07 through 08)

Lightroom

Adobe Lightroom allows you to do photo editing on a desktop.

HSSL main floor (034-108-DHUB-05 through 06)
Schulich Level 4, room 410 (034-170-FLR4-07 through 08)

STATA version 18

Stata is used for cross-tabulations, correlations, t tests, equality-of-variance tests, tests of proportions, and confidence intervals. (maximum 16 users at one time)

HSSL: Digital Scholarship Hub (main floor: 034-108-DHUB-01 through 06)
HSSL: Data Lab (2nd floor, room M2-37A: computer numbers 034-108-237A-07 through 12)
Schulich Library of Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, and Engineering (Level 4, room 410: computer numbers 034-170-FLR4-05 through 08)

ABBYY FineREADER PDF 16

ABBYY FineREADER PDF is an optical character recognition application.

HSSL main floor (034-108-DHUB-01 through 06)
Schulich Level 4, room 410 (034-170-FLR4-05 through 08)

Acrobat Pro

Adobe Acrobat Pro allows you to create, edit, sign, and manage PDFs.

HSSL main floor (034-108-DHUB-05 through 06)
Schulich Level 4, room 410 (034-170-FLR4-07 through 08)

Adobe Digital Editions

Adobe Digital Editions allows you to read ePub formats.

All computers

Adobe Express

Adobe Express allows you create content from templates.

HSSL main floor (034-108-DHUB-05 through 06)
Schulich Level 4, room 410 (034-170-FLR4-07 through 08)

Bloomberg

Bloomberg terminals provide access to live and historical market data, news, analytics and reports.

HSSL: Finance Lab (3rd floor McLennan, room M3-53B)

Google Earth

Google Earth is a web and computer program that renders a 3D representation of Earth based primarily on satellite imagery.

HSSL: Data Lab (2nd floor, room M2-37A: computer numbers 034-108-237A-07 through 12)

Microsoft Office for Mac

Microsoft Office gives you access to popular productivity software like Word, Excel, and Powerpoint on a Mac.

nan

MorningStar

Morningstar is a leading investment analysis tool, providing international financial and statistical data including fund information.

HSSL: Finance Lab (3rd floor McLennan, room M3-53B)

NVivo 14

NVivo is a qualitative analysis software package.

HSSL: Digital Scholarship Hub (main floor: computer number 034-108-DHUB-04)
Schulich Library of Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, and Engineering (Level 4, room 403: computer number 034-170-FLR4-06)
Nahum Gelber Law Library (2nd floor: computer number 034-231-FLR2-13)

7 Zip 16.0.4

7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.

All computers

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