Faculty Support at RDP Library

The Research Common is a collaborative effort among the Library, the Centre of Teaching, Learning and Scholarship, the Centre for Innovation in Manufacturing, the Research Ethics Board, the Research and Scholarship Committee, the Recognition of Scholarly Activity Committee, and Institutional Research.

Faculty, staff, and students can get assistance with:

• getting started on a research project
• connecting with other researchers and/or the community for a project
• designing an ethical research project
• conducting literature searches
• writing a research grant or proposal
• understanding grant requirements (budget, course release, hiring, etc.)
• presenting or publishing research, including Open Access publishing

The Teaching Professor is a monthly newsletter which provides ideas and insight to educators who are passionate about teaching. 

Access to The Teaching Professor is exclusive to Red Deer Polytechnic faculty, staff, and students.
To receive the unique URL, please contact your subject librarian or email librarian@rdpolytech.ca

The RDP Digital Repository is an open-access digital collection of scholarly and creative works by RDP faculty, staff, and students, plus institutional documents.

Find scholarly and creative work by Red Deer Polytechnic faculty, staff, and students:
Search Digital Repository

Faculty, Staff, and Students are invited to contribute work to the repository:
Upload Your Submission 

For more information, email librarian@rdpolytech.ca

Wikipedia provides an extensive comparison list of all available reference management software currently available.

Journal Alerts - Receive an email whenever a new issue of that journal is added. Get the table of contents along with links to each new article from these providers: 

• EBSCO
• JSTOR
• Project Muse

Article Alerts - Search for articles on a subject, then receive an email whenever new articles on that subject are added. You can get alerts as an e-mail or RSS feed. Registration/account creation may be required.

• EBSCO
• JSTOR
• Wiley
• Project Muse

If there are items you would like to see in our collection that you believe would benefit the research and scholarly activities of faculty, send suggestions to your Subject Librarian.

As a faculty member at Red Deer Polytechnic you have access to all our library materials, including our subscription databases. There are two main ways to explore the databases:

If you have any questions about the resources we have available in your discipline, please contact your Subject Librarian.