Cowan - Blakley Memorial Library

The library provides you with access to the following three papers through direct subscription accounts. Thousands of additional newspapers are also available via our databases. To check to see if we have access to a title not on this list, use the Full Text Journal Finder tool to search for the publication.

Wall Street Journal

Visit the Wall Street Journal and follow the prompts to register for your free digital subscription using your University of Dallas email address. Employees may visit the same site annually in order to renew. Student accounts are active throughout your academic career at UD.

New York Times

Visit the New York Times and follow the prompts to register for your free digital subscription using your University of Dallas email address. Visit the same site every 6 months in order to renew.

Dallas Morning News

Accounts are created and updated for students and employees at the start of the fall semester each year. Please email reference@udallas.edu if you are a new student or employee and would like to activate your digital subscription.

Subject Guides

Course Guides

RefWorks

RefWorks, an online research management tool, is designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store, and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies. Material found in our electronic databases, online catalog, even internet resources can be imported into RefWorks to create correctly formatted bibliographies in more than 1500 citation styles.

To create or log into a Refworks account, please go here.
Citation Guide

Resources

Databases

An A-Z list of all library databases.

Subject Guides

Subject guides are developed by librarians to help with specific research needs by subject.

Subject Guides Tutorial

Full-Text Journal Finder

Search the library's full-text journal holdings.

Full-Text Finder Tutorial

UD Discovery

A combined search of many of the library's resources, including databases, full-text journals, and the online catalog.

Online Catalog

Search the library's holdings, including books, periodicals, videos, special collections, and reserve materials.

Your Library Account Tutorial

UDigital Commons

A searchable, cloud based platform that stores, collects, and displays historical and scholarly documents, lectures, conferences, student publications, and media related to the University of Dallas.

New Books List

A detailed title list of books newly added to the library collection.

RefWorks

Refworks is a citation management program that helps you organize research and create bibliographies. If you would like to migrate your RefWorks data from Legacy RefWorks to the new interface, please contact the library for help.
Create RefWorks Account

Add Resources to Your RefWorks Account

Citation and Style Guides

These guides will help you with citation styles, including APA, MLA, Chicago, and Turabian styles of citations.

LC Classification

Letters and titles of the main classes of the Library of Congress.

Library of Congress Call Numbers Tutorial

Library Instruction

Courses offered include general search tips, database specific classes, locating library materials, library tours, and other classes as requested.

Services

Online Reserves

For easy access to supplemental class readings. Books and other tangible readings are placed on reserve in the library. Articles and other photocopies are placed in the online reserve collection.

RightFind Copyright Service

To distribute copyrighted content such as textbooks and other materials to students and colleagues through BrightSpace, eReserves, email, and printed copies within the UD community. Register for an account on the RightFind website to access it remotely.

Request Electronic Reserves

Pay your Fine

Tipasa - Interlibrary Loan

Tipasa - Interlibrary Loan allows students to request materials not owned by the Cowan-Blakley Memorial Library. Submit a form and the item will be delivered anywhere from within a few hours to several business days. *Login with your UD Network ID and Password*

Tipasa Interlibrary Loan Tutorial

Suggest A Book

Suggest a book to be added to the library's collection.

Library Instruction Request Form

About the Library

Find out about the history of the Cowan - Blakley Memorial Library