Library Resources for Graduate Students

This guide presents library resources, services, and programs that may be of interest to graduate students

Academic Publishing Demystified

Academic Publishing Demystified
This guide was developed by a collaborative team and was based on the results of focus groups with grad students and faculty mentors. It will help you learn about the academic publishing process.

Scholarly Communication Guide
Scholarly communication can be defined as the system through which research and other scholarly writings are created, evaluated for quality, disseminated to the scholarly community, and preserved for future use. The guide provides resources to help the University of Calgary research community navigate the scholarly communication ecosystem.

Topics covered in this guide include:

Manage Your Research Identity and Track Your Impact Guide
Research identity is important, and it is never too early to start thinking about it. The Manage your research identity and track your impact guide describes how to build a researcher identity online through the use of unique IDs and social media profiles. It also describes online tools for tracking the impact of your research.

Topics covered in this guide include:

PRISM
PRISM is University of Calgary's Digital Repository. It collects, preserves and disseminates the academic works of faculty and students. The PRISM guide covers how to search and submit to PRISM.
Dataverse
Dataverse is a place to store and share research data. Dataverse accepts multiple formats of data including tabular, text and images and will accept up to 2.5 GB of data per individual.
Other Data Repositories
The data repositories page of the Research Data Management guide highlights other external repositories that exist. The list includes multidisciplinary as well as discipline-specific data repositories.