Discounts on Hardware and Software Purchases

 

As you may know, computer software and hardware vendors offer discounts on some of their products for currently registered students and faculty of academic institutions.

Current Rutgers Law students and faculty have access to discounted products from Apple, Dell, and HP!  To take advantage of this perk, go to http://findtech.rutgers.edu. Ignore the menu on the right and click on the graphic that says Technology and for Personal Purchases. The clickable graphic now should display Apple Store, Dell Store, and MRA International Store (with the HP logo). Choose the online store that you wish to visit. You will be prompted to sign in (use your RU NetID and password), and then you will be taken to the online store that you selected. You will be able to view their products at the discounted rate.

You can get these same discounts even when you start out at the Apple Store homepage. On the Apple Store homepage, scroll all the way to the bottom, where you will see more “store” options: Under More Stores, select Education. The next page will prompt you to input your school. Whether you use “Rutgers Camden” or “08102,” you will get 3 options for this campus. Unless you are enrolled in (or working at) the School of Fine Arts, any one of the remaining two options should work for viewing and purchasing at the discounted prices.

If you prefer a Dell product, you can also start out at the Shop Dell homepage. In the menu across the top, select Student & Member Purchase. Dell calls this site “Dell University.”  From here, the products that you look at will display the student-discounted price. When you are ready to check out, the Shipping Information fields will prompt you, not only for the name of your institution, but for your student or staff ID number, as well.

However, if you prefer a HP product, the easiest way would be to go through the FindTech site mentioned above. Unfortunately, you will only be able to view the discounted products after registering and signing in. If you are registering for the first time and you went through the FindTech website, the account information (Rutgers – Personal) is already filled in within the relevant field.

How do you know what you’re saving on these products? The Vendors’ education stores do not provide comparisons between their regularly-offered prices and the educational-discount prices. If you’re curious about how much you are saving, then you can do a real-time comparison using different browser windows.

If you have any questions, here are some FAQs from the Rutgers FindTech page. If you have any more questions, feel free to email me or stop by the Reference Desk!

Happy shopping!

 

Written by CDS.

Finding Materials Outside the Rutgers University Libraries System

The last post on Finding Materials Within the Rutgers University Libraries System (RULS) explained how to use the Law Library catalog  as well as the Rutgers University Main Library catalog (IRIS) to find materials that you might need for your research.

On occasion, the item that you are looking for may not be within the RULS.  Rutgers University is part of a library consortium that participates in lending materials to other participating institutions, and vice versa.  If the book that you are looking for is not within the RULS, E-Z Borrow is the next step in trying to locate the book.  (Note for users: “Journals or journal articles, e-books, films, videos, CDs, and rare materials are generally not eligible” for circulation using this system.)

If you still can’t find what you need through the RULS or E-Z Borrow, you may place a request through Interlibrary Loan (ILL).  First time users must create a unique username and password.  If you are looking for an item on behalf of one of the Rutgers law journals, please use your journal login and password information. After that, it’s a simple matter of filling in the form provided.  The more information you can provide about the item you’re looking for, the better it will help our staff find what you need.  Please be aware that all ILL requests are processed by humans, not by computers, so please do try to use the designated fields on the form.  Please also be aware that it may take several days to fulfill your request.

If you’ve requested an item through RULS or E-ZBorrow, you will receive an email when your item has arrived, and you will be able to pick it up from the circulation desk at Robeson library.  Items requested through ILL will be delivered to the Law Library circulation desk.

The content of this post was inspired by Genevieve Tung.

Written by CDS.