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Guides to Research, Writing, & Publishing
The Library can help identify - and refine - your research question by breaking down each step of the research lifecycle:
- Quickly identify gaps in your research
- Conduct a complete literature review
- Create a search strategy
- Evaluate your results
- Organize your sources and cite them properly
Literature searches foray into prior research surrounding your topic. A thorough literature search can result publishing your findings in high impact journals and conference presentations. Informationists can save you time and find better results by helping you create a search strategy, conduct a literature search, and curate references from the library databases such as EMBASE, MEDLINE, and PsycInfo.
Citation Managers, EndNote (via SOM Library) and RefWorks (via HSL), store, organize, and share citations related to your research. These collaboration products aid in modifying citations in your manuscripts, and are available for your CV, writing for publication, case studies and case reports, literature reviews, and presenting your research. Creating an Author ID provides additional visibility to your research.
From selecting a publisher, to navigating Open Access, to avoiding predatory publishers, Informationists can help you determine an appropriate venue for your manuscript based on your publication type.
Understanding your rights as an author under copyright, reviewing your research’s impact, and tracking your publications should be done often. Journal, article, and author impact metrics can boost the discoverability of your work even before it goes to press.
