The Research Common is an inclusive resource center supporting faculty, staff, and students with guidance, connections, and resources across various stages of their research and scholarly activities.

Visit the Research Common guide or contact the Research Common at researchcommon@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. Learn more.

Reference and citation management software can help manage large amounts of information. These tools can facilitate:

• collecting and organizing references
• formatting references into various citation stles including APA, MLA, and Chicago
• adding notes and annotations to references
• collaborating and sharing of references with others
• syncing references across multiple devices

Although RDP Library doesn't subscribe to a specific citation management tool, we recommend exploring these free options:

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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

NOTE: The RDP Library subscription to Teaching Professor will end December 19, 2025.

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.