The Researcher's Toolkit: The Research Cycle

The Health Sciences Library commits to provide you with instructional support throughout the life cycle of your research project. Our rigorous approach assumes that your project will produce a scholarly output, whether it be a grant application, scholarly article,  conference presentation, or poster.

In addition to supporting the search protocol, we assist students and faculty who are new to research with the basic processes of systematic reviews, data management, authorship, publishing, and impact measures.

• Book a Consultation with a Librarian
• Contact Research Help at the Information Desk
• Recommend a Resource

• Request an Instruction Session
• Request a new Online Tutorial

Upcoming Sessions

• Understand the Research Process
• Getting Started with Knowledge Translation and Knowledge Synthesis (Systematic/Scoping Reviews)
• Refine Your Research Question
• Prepare a Research Protocol
• Grant Support and Research Collaboration
• Author Profiles
• Data Management Planning
• Academic Integrity & Plagarism 

• Select Appropriate Resources
• Refine Your Search Strategy
• Find Grey Literature
• Document Your Search
• Search Data Repositories

• Access Research Collections
  • Library Collection
  • Interlibrary Loan
  • Photocopy Services
• Identify Knowledge Synthesis Tools/Software
• Manage Your Search Results
• Manage Your Research Data

• Medical and Scientific Writing
• Citation Management
• Author Profiles
  • Getting Started with ORCiD
  • Making an Impact: Tracking Your Research Metrics
• Open Access Publishing
  • Author Fee Agreements
• Author Rights
  • Author Copyright
  • Addendum to Publisher Agreements
  • Creative Commons
• Journal Selection and Evaluation
  • Tools for Journal Selection
  • Avoid Predatory Publishing
• Using Copyrighted Materials

• Demonstrate Your Research Impact
• Promote Your Research
• Preserve & Share Your Research Data