Subject and research guides
Researcher tools and how to guides
Library guidesSupporting research students and academic staff
The Library provides advice, training, resources and assistance to researchers during their entire research project.
Services include assistance with:
- Finding information and data
- Managing information and data
- Publishing including open access and strategic publishing
- Measuring impact with research metrics
- Managing copyright
- Promoting and communicating with author identifiers and researcher profiles
- Repository support for depositing and reporting on research outputs
- HDR study space for quiet study.
Graduate Researcher and research support
- Use our online resources via MultiSearch.
- The Library provides subject and research guides to assist you in beginning your research.
- If we do not have what you are looking for the Library’s interlibrary loan service can help you find research outputs and resources from other Libraries. Contact lib.interlib@mq.edu.au for enquiries and to renew items.
- Faculty and Clinical Librarians are available for individual advice and assistance.
1. Building your research skills
Not sure where to start? The Library has online subject and research guides to get you started, identifying fundamental disciplinary resources and introducing key researching tools.
Set up an initial research consultation with a Faculty or Clinical Librarian for support with:
- advanced database searching, including search/subject alerts
- evaluating sources and literature reviews
- bibliographic and referencing management, including EndNote and Mendeley
- evidence-based practice questions and literature support.
Additional workshops, guides and tools
- Subject and research guides help with researching and referencing.
- Graduate research development – support includes various workshops for HDR and MRes students.
2. Conducting your research
Set up a research consultation with your Faculty or Clinical Librarian for support with:
- conducting systematic reviews
- identifying useful methodologies and tracking citations
- digital literacies – including when and how to use technology, how to navigate a program or website, how to work out what the technology does and make the best use of technology for your need
- literature searches for clinical research questions.
Additional information
- Library collections – Macquarie University is committed to developing and maintaining a shared collection of published materials to support its research.
- Interlibrary loans – document supply services for items not held by our Library. Physical items are currently not available for interlibrary loans, only digital items.
- Ordering new material – request new material or additional resources for the Library.
- Database trials – see what we’re trialling and tell us what you think.
- Copyright and IP advice and copyright for research.
3. Managing your research data
- Text and data mining – pattern and trend analysis from data and language.
- Research data management – a toolkit to assist with research data planning and management. It provides guidance and reference materials and enables researchers to include sound data management practices in their projects from the outset.
4. Research output management and analysis
Set up a research consultation with your Faculty or Clinical Librarian for support with:
- Strategic publishing – choosing outlets for your research, and the publishing cycle.
- Current Macquarie Publish and Read Agreements – supporting Open Access publishing.
- ORCID and research identifiers – including Scopus ID, ResearcherID, Google Scholar profiles.
- Impact and metrics – researcher and research metrics to measure the quantitative and qualitative impact of your research.
Contact the Research and Digital Scholarship team (email: researchonline@mq.edu.au) for support with:
- Open Access and Pure Research Management System
- requesting an ISBN
- requesting a DOI
- government reporting including ERA
- legal deposit
- thesis submissions.
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