Research Tools


HOLLIS Catalog
Use HOLLIS to find all materials (books, DVDs, CD-ROMs, e-resources, journals) held or subscribed to by any of the Harvard Libraries. An online guide is available.

Citation Linker
Use this tool when you are looking for a specific article. Enter as much information as you have (you must have the journal/magazine/newspaper title) and then click on "find it @Harvard." Links to online versions of the article and/or to the print holdings at Harvard will be retrieved.

Harvard Libraries Portal
This is the main website for the Harvard Libraries system. Links to information (including hours) about each library are provided. Go to the E-Research portion to find electronic resources.

E-Research
Here you can identify, locate, and connect to Harvard's growing collection of e-resources and e-journals. You can also use new tools that allow you to search multiple resources at one time and to save sets of e-resources, e-journals, and citations. A guide to getting started is available.

RefWorks
A web-based bibliographic management program, allows users with a Harvard ID and PIN to create a personal database of citations, abstracts, images, and other materials in electronic form, and to integrate these sources into bibliographies, articles, etc. written with Word and other word processors.

Research Guides
Created by librarians at the Kennedy School of Government Library, these guides help you find key electronic and print resources for conducting research on a variety of topics.

Quick Reference
A collection of online reference resources linking you to encyclopedias, dictionaries, citation guides, people finders and much more.

Copyright Information
A brief guide for use by the Kennedy School community.