Research Support: Information

Consulting with Librarians

     Contact your subject librarian or library       
     specialist to request any of the following:

• personalized consultation or orientation session to learn about library services and resources
• assistance with P&T packets (citation metrics, journal rankings, journal acceptance rates)
• in-depth research assistance
• assistance with systematic reviews
• consultation on article publication (open access, journal rankings & metrics, predatory journals and more)
• data management

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
• Open Policy Finder: publisher copyright policies
• Open & Public Access Policies
• MOspace: promote & preserve your work
• Data Repositories: save & share data
• Preprints
• Manage Your Own Copyright
• CC Licenses

Entrepreneurial Research

• Entrepreneurship guide

Digital Scholarship

• Data Mining
• Digital Humanities

Tools For Researchers

• 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

              AI

• Artificial Intelligence: Research, Writing, Teaching, & Ethics

Research Workshops & Events

Research Spotlight