The Research and Academic Services team are part of the University Library. They include librarians and research specialists dedicated to supporting research students and staff at the University of Warwick.
The team provides research support services in the areas of literature searching, reference management, open research, research data management, and digital scholarship.
Your primary contact is your Research and Academic Support Librarian who can provide subject specialist library support for your department, and can signpost you to other research support services within the library.
Research and Academic Services also includes specialist research support teams in open research, research data and digital scholarship.
Open Research
Yvonne Budden, Open Research Manager
openaccessfund@warwick.ac.uk
Warwick Research Archive Portal (WRAP)
WRAP is Warwick's open research repository
publications@warwick.ac.uk
Research Data
To be appointed, Research Data Manager
researchdata@warwick.ac.uk
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS)
The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) is part of the School of Advanced Studies at the University of London. The IALS Library is a national legal research library, with impressive law archives and collections.
Membership of IALS Library is available to postgraduate researchers (MPhil and PhD not LLB or LLM) and academic staff from other universities. Please see membership information on the IALS Library website.
The library offers a wide range of bibliographic databases to support literature searching:
The library offers a Literature Searching for Researchers training session, and your Research and Academic Support Librarian can help you plan literature searches and use databases to find academic literature. Contact your librarian to book a 1-2-1 appointment.
Get It For Me is the library's document supply service. It allows researchers to request resources not currently available in the library. To request items, simply complete the relevant request form. The library has a digital first policy and will acquire electronic resources where possible.
If you are interested in a trial or subscription to a new journal or database, please contact your Research and Academic Support Librarian.
Researchers to keep up-to-date with new publications in their discipline. The library's journals and databases include current awareness tools which can alert you to new articles, issues of journals, and citations to articles.
Your Research and Academic Support Librarian can help you use current awareness services. Contact your librarian to book a 1-2-1 appointment.
The library provides advice and guidance on plagiarism and referencing to students and researchers.
Your Research and Academic Support Librarian can advise on the OSCOLA referencing style and other referencing conventions used in your discipline. Contact your librarian to ask a question or book a 1-2-1 appointment.
The library provides advice and guidance on managing literature using reference management software.
EndNote: the University provides EndNote reference management software, and the library provides EndNote user guides, training and ongoing support. If you want to learn how to use EndNote, the library runs EndNote workshops as part of the researcher development programme. Additionally, your Research and Academic Support Librarian can advise on reference management software. Contact your librarian to ask a question or book a 1-2-1 appointment. Alternatively, contact endnoteweb@warwick.ac.uk.
The library provides advice and guidance on managing your Research Data to ensure that you meet policy and funder requirements. From initial planning, during your active research phase, to archiving and sharing data at the end of your research project.
The library's Research Data Management team can advise on all aspects of RDM including planning, organising, accessing and sharing research data. Contact the RDM team researchdata@warwick.ac.uk to ask a question, book a 1-2-1 appointment or group training session.
The library provides advice and guidance on Open Access (OA) publishing to ensure that you meet policy and funder requirements, including compliance with the Research Excellence Framework (REF). The library also manages the university's subscriptions to Read and Publish journals, funds for Article Processing Charges (APCs), and the Warwick Research Archive Portal (WRAP) our open access research repository.
The library's Open Access team can advise on all aspects of open access including policy, funding, compliance and open access articles and monographs. Contact the OA team openaccessfund@warwick.ac.uk to ask a question, book a 1-2-1 appointment or group training session.
Research metrics or bibliometrics is the statistical analysis of books, articles and other publications. It is an information science used to evaluate research using quantitative methods by counting citations, but can also use alternative measures (altmetrics) to count page views, downloads and social media shares. Research metrics can be used to evaluate articles, journals and authors, as well as research groups and institutions. It can help you to identify research collaborators, where to publish your research and measure the impact of your research.
If you want to learn more about research metrics, the library runs an introductory Investigating Research Metrics workshop, as part of the researcher development programme. Your Research and Academic Support Librarian can help you to find research metrics on library databases. Contact your librarian to ask a question or book a 1-2-1 appointment. The library's Open Access team can advise on advanced aspects of bibliometrics including policy and implications for your research. Contact the OA team scholarlycomms@warwick.ac.uk to ask a question, book a 1-2-1 appointment or group training session.
Scopus - multidisciplinary index, abstract and citation database
Web of Science: multidisciplinary index, abstract and citation database
Journal Citation Reports: journal citation metrics and rankings database
Dimensions - multidisciplinary academic research and analysis database
Dimensions searches for academic research including research grants, clinical trials, patents and policy documents. View index and abstracts. View references and cited literature. View Dimensions citation counts and Altmetric attention scores, for both all-time and recent time periods. View author profiles, including lists of publications, grants, patents and policy documents, number of citations, affiliations and co-authors.
Google Scholar - multidisciplinary search engine for scholarly literature
Google Scholar searches for academic literature and counts citations to articles, books and chapters. Find cited and related literature. View author profiles, including lists of publications, number of citations, h-index and i10-index. View lists of journal titles by subject based on the h-5 index.
Sage Research Methods (SRM) is an online learning platform for researchers, with a wide range of resources to support quantitative, qualitative and mixed research methods including a project planner, methods map, and many books, case studies and datasets.
Research Refresh
10:30am-12:00pm every Thursday
[REX, Floor 3, Library]
Take a break from your research, grab a coffee and chat to other researchers about PhD Life.
EndNote for Reference Management
Various dates and times
[On-campus and online]
Use the EndNote software to organise your references, insert citations and create a bibliography, in your referencing style.
Literature Searching for Researchers
11:00am Thursday 23 January
[REX, Floor 3, Library]
An advanced introduction to literature searching and specialist library databases for your discipline.
Publishing Essentials
10:00am Tuesday 28 January
[Hybrid]
An introduction to academic publishing including routes, copyright and open access.
Investigating Research Metrics
11:00am Thursday 6 February
[REX, Floor 3, Library]
An introduction to research metrics, including citations, journal impact factors and altmetrics, and an opportunity to explore research metrics in your discipline.
Journals Publishing
2:00pm Thursday 20 February
[Hybrid]
Choosing where to publish journal articles including evaluating journals, open access and journal metrics.
Literature Searching for Researchers
2:00pm Tuesday 25 February
[Online]
An advanced introduction to literature searching and specialist library databases for your discipline.
Investigating Research Metrics
2:00pm Tuesday 4 March
[Online]
An introduction to research metrics, including citations, journal impact factors and altmetrics, and an opportunity to explore research metrics in your discipline.
Research Refresh
10:30am-12:00pm every Thursday
[REX, Floor 3, Library]
Take a break from your research, grab a coffee and chat to other researchers about PhD Life.
EndNote for Reference Management
Various dates and times
[On-campus and online]
Use the EndNote software to organise your references, insert citations and create a bibliography, in your referencing style.
Book Proposals
10:00am Wednesday 30 April
[Hybrid]
An introduction to the book publishing process including proposals, approaching editors and literary agents.
Literature Searching for Researchers
11:00am Thursday 1 May
[Hybrid]
An advanced introduction to literature searching and specialist library databases for your discipline.
Future of Publishing
11:00am Thursday 15 May
[Hybrid]
An experimental workshop discussing the future of publishing in the digital environment and how to develop a publishing strategy.
Investigating Research Metrics
11:00am Thursday 22 May
[Hybrid]
An introduction to research metrics, including citations, journal impact factors and altmetrics, and an opportunity to explore research metrics in your discipline.
Research Refresh
10:30am-12:00pm every Thursday
[REX, Floor 3, Library]
Take a break from your research, grab a coffee and chat to other researchers about PhD Life.
EndNote for Reference Management
Various dates and times
[On-campus and online]
Use the EndNote software to organise your references, insert citations and create a bibliography, in your referencing style.
Sage Research Methods
12:00pm Thursday 31 October
[Online]
An introduction to the online platform supporting quantitative, qualitative and mixed research methods.
[Pre-registration is required for this webinar)
Literature Searching for Researchers
11:00am Thursday 7 November
[REX, Floor 3, Library]
An advanced introduction to literature searching and specialist library databases for your discipline.
Open Research Essentials
10:00am Wednesday 13 November
[Hybid]
An introduction to 'open' practices in research, including Open Access, FAIR Data and Open Peer Review.
Investigating Research Metrics
11:00am Thursday 28 November
[REX, Floor 3, Library]
An introduction to research metrics, including citations, journal impact factors and altmetrics, and an opportunity to explore research metrics in your discipline.
Data Management Planning
2:00pm Thursday 28 November
[Hybrid]
An introduction to Research Data Management (RDM) and Data Management Plans (DPM).
Literature Searching for Researchers
12:00pm Monday 2 December
[Online]
An advanced introduction to literature searching and specialist library databases for your discipline.
Investigating Research Metrics
12:00pm Monday 9 December
[Online]
An introduction to research metrics, including citations, journal impact factors and altmetrics, and an opportunity to explore research metrics in your discipline.
EndNote
User instructions and guides to installing and using EndNote reference management software.
Literature Searching for Researchers
Presentation slides used in workshop.
[Coming soon]
Investigating Research Metrics
Presentation slides used in workshop.
Discover a range of library and study skills guides including how to study law, how to think critically, and how to write law essays and prepare for examinations.
Discover how to find legislation, case law, and journal articles using law databases, including Doing Legal Research online course and Lexis+ UK and Westlaw UK law database training and certification courses.
Discover how to avoid plagiarism, how to use the OSCOLA legal referencing style, and how to manage references with EndNote referencing software.
Discover the library's support for researchers including literature searching, reference management, research data management, open access and publishing, and research metrics.