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Planning Your Research
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Ideas and Funding
Support and resources available to you to develop your research ideas into funded projects, and for identifying sources of funding -
Research Collections
Highlighting the unique research collections at Durham avilable to support your research, and guidance on conducting efficient scoping surveys of literature to identify or support a research or funding opportunity. -
Citation Analysis
Information on what citation analysis support is available to support any funding applications, or identifying potential collaborators or competitors. -
Funders & Open Science
Information and support available to identify if your funder has an open access policy, and how to plan to cost and/or meet those requirements. -
Data Management Planning
Guidance on creating a data management plan.
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Conducting your Research
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Finding Information
Training and resources to help researchers and research students to most effectively search for, find and keep up to date with research materials.. -
Managing Information
Training and resources to help researchers and research students make the maximum use of available tools for managing and manipulating information. -
Systematic Reviews
Information to support those Durham researchers and research students involved in conducting a Systematic Review as part of their research. -
Keeping up to date
Alerting services and means of keeping up to date with emerging research and information
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Sharing your Research
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Open Access Publishing
Guidance on how to make your research outputs free to access to a wider audience. Identify what funder, REF or other requirements you are expected to meet, and funding and support available. -
Research Data Management
Guidance on how to make sure your research data is effectively managed, curated and made accessible where required or preferable, and the support available to you. -
Where to Publish?
Guidance on selecting a journal or publisher, best practice in academic writing and academic writing support available at Durham. -
Your digital profile
Guidance on managing your online profile: ORCiD, ResearcherID, ScopusID, Google Scholar, ResearchGate, and social media guidance. -
ISBNs and ISSNS
How to get an ISBN or ISSN for forthcoming research outputs.
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Evaluating your Research
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Responsible use of Metrics
Metric Tide: How does the University use publication metrics? How are publication metrics used in the REF and University ranking systems? -
Publication metrics overview
Information and guidance about commonly used journal and author level metrics -
Altmetrics
Who is talking about your research? Information and guidance about tracking the footprint of your research outputs outside of the academic community. -
SciVal support
Guidance on what support we can offer individuals or research groups in terms of citation analysis for the research outputs. -
Maximising citeability
Guidance on how to maximise the cite-ability of your research outputs.
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Explore the information and resources available via our Research Support pages.
Your Academic Liaison Librarian
Senior Manager
Library Research Services
0191 334 1589
Researcher 1-2-1
Need help? Drop me an email or request a 30 minute 1-to-1 consultation to scale any brick walls in your way.
Research Support Statement
"In a rapidly evolving research and information environment the library aims to support research in all disciplines across the research life cycle, from securing funding awards, to the dissemination and evaluation of your research and its impact.
This covers a broad range of activities, from the training and support provided through the Researcher Development and Leading Research Programmes, to enabling researchers to meet the open access and research data management requirements set by funders and the management and maintenance of our institutional repository Durham Research Online.
We are heavily involved in supporting the university's REF submissions, and can provide additional advice and services on bibliometrics and citation analysis."