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Database Searching
Learn about:
- the range of available databases for your discipline
- the best techniques and strategies for searching databases
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Alerts and Current Awareness
Learn about
- the different types of current awareness services available to you
- how to set up alerts, e.g. journal alerts or conference alerts, so you can keep up to date with new publications in your area of teaching or research.
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Open Access and Creative Commons
Learn about
- what Open Access is and how it benefits you
- e-prints and institutional repositories
- open access resources you can search
- Creative Commons
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Access to resources from other libraries
The interlibrary loan and document delivery service provides CQUniversity researchers access to information sources the Library does not hold.
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EndNote
Learn about
- creating individual records for books, journal articles and other resources
- organising large numbers of references
- using Cite While You Write for in text citations and reference lists
Free downloads for our staff and students
- EndNote Software
- CQU Harvard style file
- Tutorial booklet & information sheets
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Research Data Management
Learn about
- Data management plans
- Data storage
- Describing research data
- Data sharing
- Finding data
- Data retention and disposal
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Literature Review Tutorial
Learn about
- what a Literature Review is
- the purpose it serves
- how to do one
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Systematic Reviews
Learn about
- what a Systematic Review is
- the purpose it serves
- how to do one
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Scholarly publishing
Learn about
- scholarly publishing
- choosing journals and publishers
- Higher Education Research Data Collection (HERDC) & Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA)
- open access publishing
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Research impact
Learn about
- journal & author ranking
- author profiles
- altmetrics & other measures
- where to discover the impact of your own research from citation data
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Theses
Learn about
- finding theses from CQUniversity and other universities in Australia and overseas.
- resources to help you write your thesis
- how to deposit your thesis with the Library and in ACQUIRE
This list provides some web resources that may be of a particular interest to researchers.
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