Library Graduate Student Prize: Frequently Asked Questions
Eligibility
Yes. Professional students, including health sciences students, are encouraged to apply.
Yes. UC Davis postdoctoral scholars across all fields are eligible to apply.
Yes.
Yes. Current Graduate students enrolled in Fall quarter who completed the submitted work while at UC Davis are eligible.
Yes! There are many ways to find and access library resources, and it is not necessary to have consulted a librarian to be eligible for this prize.
No. The work must be unpublished.
Yes. This does not count as “publication.”
Yes.
Yes. As long as the proposal contains substantial desk research and the applicants can:
- clearly show they made effective use of the UC Davis Library’s resources and/or services,
- clearly show the extent to which they enhanced understanding of diverse groups, and
- clearly show the extent to which they used methods that enhanced the public scholarship of the work
Preparing and Submitting the Application
You may submit only one project of which you are the primary creator, however you may be listed as a team member on other projects in which you participated.
Please review the Evaluation Process and Criteria section of the Library Graduate Student Prize page, and choose the project you think best meets the criteria on which the entries will be judged.
Applicants may use artificial intelligence tools within their submitted works and application materials. Applicants are required to adhere to the Library Graduate Student Prize AI Policy.
If you are unable to submit your work via the Application Portal, and you cannot upload elsewhere and provide a link to your work, please email librarygradstudentprize@ucdavis.edu for assistance.
No. Only the requested materials will be considered.
Application Evaluation
Submissions will be screened for completeness and eligibility, then sent to judges who will evaluate each submission using the Library Grad Student Prize rubric (pdf).
Reviewers are instructed not to consider the disclosed use of AI within submission materials or the scholarly work in their assessments and to instead evaluate submissions based on the criteria in the Library Graduate Student Prize Rubric.
Yes, if you meet all of the criteria for eligibility, as described on the Library Graduate Student Prize page.