Olivia Given Castello

I am Haverford's Scholarly Communications Librarian and subject librarian for Economics, here to support Haverford community members in their learning, research, teaching, and publishing. Email me with questions, to set up an appointment, or to request a class visit, workshop, custom learning guide, or tutorial.

For students, I can help you:

• Find and evaluate sources for economics and social science research
• Develop research questions and search strategies
• Understand citation practices and use citation managers
• Locate and interpret economic and trade data
• Understand scholarly publishing
• Deposit your senior thesis in Haverford's repository
• Connect with other library services that can help you succeed

For faculty, I can:

• Help you integrate research skills and library resources into your courses
• Create library research guides or tutorials tailored to your course
• Provide research instruction (live or recorded) for your course
• Help you track down hard-to-find citations and datasets
• Order materials needed for your teaching or research
• Advise on copyright and Creative Commons licensing for teaching or publishing
• Help you find open and affordable course materials (OER)
• Recommend publishing venues and explain your author rights
• Advise on open access publishing and Haverford's APC funding options
• Accept deposits to Haverford Scholarship , the College's institutional repository, and help you meet funder and publisher access mandates
• Assist with research data management, writing data management plans, and curating data for reproducibility
• Consult on research visibility, scholarly profiles, and impact metrics
• Present to your department or research group on any of the topics above