Get help locating published research and key information

• Subject research guides - listing key subject and interdisciplinary databases indexing published research literature.
• Popular bibliographic and citation databases
  • Web of Science
  • Scopus
  • JStor - digital library of academic journals, books, & primary sources
  • Google Scholar
• Theses  – a guide to locating Australian and international theses.
• Company industry and country information – a guide to our business databases.
• Inter-library Loans (UoM students & staff only) - access to books, journal articles, and other resources which are not available in our libraries.
• Search tools & shortcuts to full-text
  • Lean Library, Browzine, and LibKey Nomad
  • Google Scholar library links

Explore a full range of resources for finding information

• Digital Scholarship is a hub of expertise in digitisation, data management, digital curation, forensics and preservation. The team welcomes collaboration with researchers who are developing proposals with a significant digital scholarship component.
• Open Access – what do the funders require?
• Research Impact Advisory Service (RILAS) for University staff – research librarians can assist with publication citation analysis and other metrics to support grant proposals.

Explore a full range of resources for Supporting your grant

Get help managing your references and data:

• Managing Data@Melbourne - online training in Research Data Management
• Options for managing references - guide
• Statistical and mathematical software -guide
• Digital Scholarship is a hub of expertise in digitisation, data management, digital curation, forensics and preservation.

Explore full range of resources for managing information and data

• Scholarly Publishing – a guide to choosing publishers, journal selection and evaluation tools, Open Access publishing and author profiles.
• Researcher profiles, identifiers and social networks - a guide to maximising your impact
• University Copyright Office - advice, support and resources for University researchers.
• Minerva Access (institutional repository) - make your research publications openly available

Explore full range of resources for publishing and sharing

Do you need to demonstrate the impact and engagement of your research for a grant application or a promotion?  Find below links to tools and advice for maximizing, monitoring, measuring, and managing your research impact and engagement:

Research Impact: This guide will assist you in counting citations, ranking journals, and creating an H-index.

Your Minerva Elements profile, if linked to Scopus and Web of Science, will provide citation counts and h-indexes from these sources.

Research Impact Library Advisory Service (RILAS): The University Library can assist academic staff to determine the impact of their publications and other research outputs for grant and promotion applications.

Researcher profiles, identifiers and social networks: Maximise your impact: Guide providing tips on how to promote your research and profile as a researcher.

Altmetrics: a guide to gathering alternate metrics from online activity such as social media, news media, government policy, and more.

Explore full range of resources on Measuring Impact

• Get expert advice on research data, digital archiving and preservation by contacting Digital Scholarship.
• The University Digitisation Centre (UDC) provides a range of digitisation services to the University community.
• Read about Digital Preservation - Digital Preservation Project Blog

Explore full range of resources on preserving and archiving including digitization services and digital thesis submission