Services for Honors Students
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Scholar Studies
Honors students are eligible to use a main library scholar study for one semester during their senior year. See additional information about the availability of scholar studies and how to apply for one.
Research Appointments
A librarian will meet with you to help plan a search strategy, find books, articles, quality web sites, and more.
- Online Request Form
- Posted
Schedule of Available Appointments (during spring and fall semesters)
Reference Librarians and their Subject Specialties
Humanities & Social Sciences
Cynthia Comer (Jewish
Studies, Sociology, Education)
Eboni Johnson (African American
Studies, Comparative American Studies)
Megan Mitchell (Anthropology,
Hispanic Studies, French & Italian, Politics, U.S. Government Documents)
Jennifer Starkey (Economics,
History)
Don't see your subject area listed here? Contact any reference librarian for advice or a referral!
Art & Architecture
Barbara Prior
Music
Kathy Abromeit
Natural Sciences
Alison Ricker
Managing Citations & Creating Bibliographies
See the Citation Guides and Style Manuals section of the Reference Sources page for call numbers and links to style manuals and web sites.
Create a web-based RefWorks
account to keep track of your research, organize citations, and create bibliographies
from anywhere.
Students who do research primarily on their own computers might also be interested
in Zotero, a Firefox extension.
Submitting Honors Papers to the Library
- Submit a Digital Copy of your honors paper to the OhioLINK Electronic Theses & Dissertations Center
- Browse a selection of Oberlin papers in the OhioLINK ETD Center
- As of 2011, paper copies of honors papers are generally no longer accepted. Contact Alan Boyd to request an exception to this rule.
- Browse examples of honors papers in History,
Economics,
and Physics
in OBIS
(for other subjects do an advanced search using "oberlin college" and "honors theses" and [department name])
All submitted papers (digital and print) are cataloged in OBIS.