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Research for librarians – portal

“Librarianship is an “information poor” profession. Decisions are routinely not supported by the evidence of well-designed investigations. Research in the field is poorly communicated, understood, and applied. It is imperative that academic librarians and higher education libraries develop and carry out systematic research and development programs.”
- Neal, James G. The Research and Development Imperative in the Academic Library: Path to the Future. portal: Libraries and the Academy. January 2006;6(1):61-3.

• Applying for grants
• Applying for sabbaticals
• Awards for academic librarians
• Assessment for academic librarians
• Bibliographic citation software
• Brainstorming – Ideas for articles
• Budgeting in research
• Canadian Academic Libraries Network
  Sponsored by CACUL (Canadian Association of College and University Libraries)
• Citation management
• Collaborating with faculty
• Copyright FAQs
• Critical appraisal
• Expert searching
• Evidence-based librarianship
• Gantt charts
• Health librarianship – professional journals
• Information literacy
• Institutional repositories (includes self-archiving)
• Impact factor
• Journal clubs
• Major clinical studies & trial types
• Open access in Canada
• Open search
• Research methods
• Scientific journal
• Scientific writing
• Scholarship for academic librarians
• Scholarly publishing and communication
• Structured abstract
• Style manuals
• Submitting to an academic journal
• Surveys – an introduction to online tools
• Web of Science vs. Scopus
• 2010 study of social media in academic libraries