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:

Tips

You can create Alerts in the MyEBSCO account interface:

• Set up Search Alerts
• Set up Journal Alerts

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.