Research Support: Home

Consulting with Librarians

Planning Research, Gathering Resources

• Subject Research Guides
• Databases by Subject
• Literature Review
• Systematic Review
• How Do I Find... (theses, plays, data, tests...)
• Data Management Planning

Get It!

• Borrow, Request, Renew materials
• Off-campus Access
• Research while traveling

Organizing Your Research

• Bibliographic Management Software:
  • EndNote
  • Mendeley
  • Zotero
• Data Management
• Software Carpentry Workshops

Writing, Citing & Creating

• Citation Styles (MLA, APA, Chicago...)
• Writing Tutors
• Plagiarism Checking services
• Plagiarism Tutorial
• Fair Use & Copyright Permissions
• Creating Posters

Publishing & Sharing

• Where to Publish Your Research
• Discounts and APC support for MU authors
• SPARC Author Rights
• RoMEO: publisher copyright policies
• Open & Public Access Policies
• MOspace: promote & preserve your work
• Data Repositories: save & share data
• Manage Your Own Copyright
• CC Licenses

Entrepreneurial Research

• Entrepreneurship guide

Digital Scholarship

• Data Mining
• Digital Humanities

Tools For Researchers

• Database Alerts - for staying current
• Equipment available for use and checkout
• Software
• MU Libraries Recordings & Tutorials

Measuring & Maximizing Impact

• Researcher IDs and Profiles:
• Journal Rankings (including Journal Impact Factors)
• Impact Measures
• Evaluate a Journal
• Publish or Perish Impact Lookup Tool

Research Workshops & Events

Research Spotlight