Getting Started with Academic Research: Getting Help
Welcome to the University Libraries at Virginia Tech! The libraries are a hub of research and learning for Virginia Tech, and we are here to help you! Explore the pages of this guide for guidance on beginning your academic research.
Research and Assignment Assistance
Simple questions
Go to Ask a librarian chat and email service.
Subject specific questions
Contact your library liaison. A librarian is formally assigned to assist the faculty, staff, and students of every academic department.
AREC and Extension offices should contact the Agriculture Librarian (Inga Haugen).
Subject-Specific Help
Subject Guides
- Accounting
- Aerospace Engineering
- Africana Studies
- Agricultural and applied economics
- Agricultural, leadership, and community education
- American history
- American literature
- American politics & government
- Animal Sciences
- Appalachian studies
- Apparel
- Aquaculture
- Arabic language and literature
- Architecture
- Area studies and comparative politics
- Art and Art History
- Astronomy
- Biochemistry
- Biological sciences
- Biological systems engineering
- Biomedical engineering
- Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics
- British literature
- Building Construction
- Business
- Business information technology
- Business law
- Chemical Engineering
- Chemistry
- Children's literature
- Chinese Language and Literature
- Cinema studies
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Classical Languages and Literature
- Communication
- Computer Science
- Consumer health
- Crop and soil environmental sciences
- Dairy science
- Economics
- Education
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Engineering education
- Engineering Science and Mechanics
- English Language and Literature
- Entomology
- Entrepreneurship
- Environmental sciences
- Finance
- Fisheries
- Food science and technology
- Forest resources and environmental conservation
- French language and literature
- Genetics, bioinformatics, and computational biology
- Geography: culture, regions, and international development
- Geography: geospatial and environmental analysis
- Geosciences
- German language and literature
- Health Sciences
- History
- Horticulture
- Hospitality and tourism management
- Housing
- Human development
- Human nutrition, foods, and exercise
- Industrial and Systems Engineering
- Industrial Design
- Insurance
- Interior Design
- International relations & security
- Italian Language and Literature
- Japanese Language and LIterature
- Landscape Architecture
- Law
- Linguistics
- Management
- Marketing
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Mathematics
- Mechanical Engineering
- Medicine
- Medieval and early modern studies
- Meteorology and weather
- Military, naval, aerospace, and veterans studies
- Mining and Minerals Engineering
- Music
- Nanoscience
- Natural resources conservation
- Neuroscience
- Nuclear Engineering
- Ocean Engineering
- Packaging systems and design
- Philosophy
- Physics
- Plant pathology, physiology, and weed science
- Political science, governance, and international affairs
- Political thought and philosophy
- Population health sciences
- Psychology
- Public administration and policy
- Real estate
- Religion and culture
- Resource management
- Russian language and literature
- Science and technology studies
- Sociology
- Spanish language and literature
- Statistics (mathematical)
- Sustainable biomaterials (forest products)
- Sustainable biomaterials (wood science)
- Theatre arts
- Translational biology, medicine and health (TBMH)
- Urban affairs & planning
- Veterinary medicine (subject guide)
- Wildlife science
- Women's & Gender Studies
- World history
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1-540-231-6308 Special Collections
1-540-231-9271 Art & Architecture Library
1-703-538-8340 Northern Virginia Center Library
1-540-231-6610 Veterinary Medicine Library