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LibGuides Best Practices: Subjects

This is a guide and style manual for Alkek Library Staff to use when creating and editing LibGuides.

Subject List

Note: there is cleanup of the Subject list taking place and some Subjects will be deleted as soon as the cleanup and conversion is complete. We will also add information regarding the Subject Home Page and Best Bets for Databases on subject pages.

Subject Homepage

This is a dynamically created page based on the Subjects identified in the LibGuides System. It will correspond to Subject Librarian expertise and Database Subjects. Librarians will identify Best Bets for the databases tab on the Subject page.

Discipline-Specific Subjects

Subjects typically correspond to the College or Department the Course Guide or Subject Guide belongs to. In addition to these, beginning in 2018 there may be additional Subjects such as Scholarly Communications in order to capture the Special Topics Guides of interest to Graduate Students, Faculty.or other researchers. We will also be moving the following groups over to become Subjects:

  • Collection Development Guides
  • Environmental Scan Guides

Best Bets

Databases identified as "core" for the subject.