Welcome to the guide for Research Support. This Guide is aimed primarily at Research Staff and Research Students at the university, although some of the information may be relevant to anyone who is undertaking research or academic publishing at any point in their academic career. The tabs above will help you navigate this guide, taking you guidance on finding and managing information, publishing and authorship, evaluating research impact and open research.
University Library & Collections Research Support is provided by the Senior Manager: Library Research Services, the Open Access Team, the Research Data Management Officer and colleagues across the service.
The Planning your research pages highlight services within the Library and across the University which may be of use when at the stage of generating ideas for a research project, or preparing a funding application.
The Research Skills and Our Collections aim to provide you with the tools and guidance you require from the Library and Collection Services ot support your research.
The Sharing your Research pages provide policy and guidance to support you publishing and disseminating the outcomes of your research. This includes a range of content aimed at researchers across their research career.
The Evaluate your Research Visibility pages provide guidance to help researchers understand how research output can be (or is being) evaluated, strategies for maximising the cite-ability of publications, and what policies and support researcher's and research managers should be aware of at Durham University.
The Open Research pages provide information about open access, open data and open science more broadly. This includes highlighting the benefits of open access, and the aims of research funders, as well as how authors at Durham can make their research open access.
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