Research Support
The Library supports activities throughout the research and scholarly communication lifecycle:
Explore, Plan, and Organize
- In-depth research consultations with subject librarians, including support for literature searching
- Extensive collections and databases supporting thorough and up-to-date literature searches
- Citation and reference management assistance
- Consultations and guidance on research data management and data management planning
Conducting and Analyzing
- Workshops covering essential research skills
- Consultations and guidance about digital research technologies available in the Digital Scholarship Centre
Distribution and Publishing
- Supports for publishing Open Access (OA), including APC-free and APC-discounted publishing in over ten thousand journals
- OA publishing program home to over seventy journals, Open Educational Resources (OER) including open textbooks
- University of Alberta Press
- Copyright support for researchers
Impact and Engagement
- Research Impact and Digital Scholarship Centre services help communicate the impact of your research
- Support for ORCID (researcher and contributor standardized identification)
Preservation and Stewardship
- Infrastructure and services that help ensure stable, long-term analog and digital preservation, including Borealis-Dataverse (data repository), ERA (institutional repository), and Aviary (audio and video curation)
Graphic adapted from, "The Research Lifecycle" . Navigating the Research Lifecycle for the Modern Researcher by Buljung, Bongiovanni and Li, used under CC BY NC 4.0.