Graduate Level Research: Services, Resources, and Tips

3) How to succeed -- advice for graduate students

• Search for books on this topic using the UCLA Library Catalog, Melvyl Catalog (UC campuses plus); for example “Getting what you  came for” by Robert L. Peters.
  
  
• Use the Subject headings links in the Library Catalog and Melvyl to find other resources, for example
  
  Universities and colleges -- United States -- Graduate work -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. 
  Dissertations, Academic -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. 

• Use the Request feature to obtain items from other UC campuses; alternatively, go to interlibrary loan.
  
  

• Submit a purchase recommendation.
  
  
• Visit the Graduate Writing Center at the UCLA Graduate Student Resource Center.