Rutgers University Libraries: Faculty Services: Faculty Access to Services

Faculty Services:
Faculty Access to Services

1. First, register with the libraries. Registration can be done in person at any Rutgers library, over the phone, or via an online request form.

To register you need:

NetID
Barcode from RU connection card
Email Address

For more information see: Registering with the Rutgers Libraries.

2. Once registered, the barcode from the RU connection card is needed to:

Check out/renew materials
Place items on reserves
Book media for preview and classroom use

3. NetID/password are needed to:

Access IRIS My Account (e.g. to check your borrowing record or renew materials)
Access Rutgers Delivery Service (RDS) (Request delivery of materials between campus libraries)
Access indexes, databases, ejournals, and other restricted resources from off-campus through such services as Searchlight (federated search tool), Citation Linker (citation search tool), or from the Indexes and Databases pages.
Access Interlibrary Loan/Article Delivery service
Log in to E-ZBorrow: The Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc. (PALCI) Project (A Virtual Union Catalog to which Rutgers belongs)
Use RefWorks (Bibliography and Database manager)
Access RUWireless in library buildings
Use Library public workstations
Deposit Faculty submissions in RUcore

4. Some specific resources (RefWorks, SciFinder Scholar) and alert services (Table of contents alerts, Daily/weekly email alerts, Saved search alerts) require that you create a separate account on the vendor's website to use them.