Research lifecycle
Supporting you through the research process
The University Library offers high quality resources and services that support our researchers and graduate students through the complete research lifecycle. We can help maximise your research outcomes.
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Finding information
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
- 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
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Supporting your grant
- 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.
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Managing information and data
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
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Publishing and sharing
- 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
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Measuring impact
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.
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Preserving and archiving
- 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
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Copyright Office
Resources and guidance on copyright considerations affecting your research and publication
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Digital Stewardship Team
Assistance with digital transformation of your research, digital preservation and research data management planning
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Student IT
Get support with using UniMelb applications, managing your digital Uni life, or setting up your devices with software