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Links for Researchers

• Access to resources
• Support for carrying out research
• Training

Access to resources

The Queen Square Library offers researchers access to a wealth of printed and online material, including:

• specialist print collections
• rare & unique historical collections
• UCL's online journals & databases (NHS staff may access many of the university's resources, using the dedicated 'walk-in' computers located within the library).
• NHS online journals & databases (access is for NHS staff only, using an NHS Athens account)

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Support for carrying out research

Library staff can offer support for researchers at every stage of the research process, including:

• literature searching - we can help you formulate search strategies for initial searches when exploring a new topic and to help ensure comprehensive retrieval of published information on your topic; please contact the library for advice.
• keeping up to date - to ensure that you keep up to date with new publications relevant to your topic of interest we can help you to set up current awareness alerts or we can manage them for you and send an email alert to you once a month.
• obtaining publications of interest - as well as helping you to access the printed and online resources available locally within the UCL/UCLH library systems, library staff can offer advice about accessing other libraries and using the interlibrary loan service to access material that is not available locally (this service incurs a small fee).
• reference management and citing references - library staff can offer advice about managing your references using tools such as Reference Manager and Endnote. Training and support is available for Reference Manager, please see our training pages for details.
• advice on publishing and open access (including UCL Discovery) - many researchers are funded by organisations who require them to publish in open access journals; UCL also has an open access mandate with the aim of sharing research outputs with as wide an audience as possible. Library staff can offer advice and has provided a webpage of information about open access publishing to help you. UCL Library Services also has an open access repository called UCL Discovery, which can help you to comply with your funders' requirements.
• help with assessing impact & bibliometrics - metrics are increasingly being used to assess the impact of research and developing your understanding of the units of measurement (such as h-index, average times cited & journal impact factors) is ever more important. Library staff can provide training & support (see our 'Assessing impact' course in the training calendar) in using the relevant tools, including the Web of Science, Scopus & Journal Citation Reports.
• support for the UCL Research Publications Service (RPS) - all researchers at UCL are expected to add their publications to the UCL so that it can be included in the university's publications profile. The Library can provide training & support (see our 'RPS' course in the training calendar) in using the RPS.

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Training

The library provides an ongoing programme of training courses, covering a range of topics. For more information about topics please visit our training pages. The library also provides a range of online database guides covering the major search tools.

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