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We support researchers at all career stages with expert guidance, technical training, and specialized resources. We partner with you from project planning through knowledge mobilization. Writing a grant, starting a new project, or trying new research methods? Partnering with ������Ƶ Libraries can strengthen your research outcomes.

Any ������Ƶ researcher can use our services.

Find your ������Ƶ Libraries expert or browse this page to learn more about our services across the research lifecycle. 

Get grant support

������Ƶ Libraries is an essential research partner in your grant applications. We can help you meet national and international requirements around data management, scholarly communication, publishing, and preservation.

Plan your research

Build in library support from the beginning. Consult with us during research planning to make sure you're not missing out on crucial services and resources.

Data management planning

������Ƶ Libraries can support your research data needs. We can help you:

• learn about best practices for managing research data
• create a data management plan (DMP)
• document data so that it is discoverable and reusable
• meet FAIR and Tri-Council data requirements 

Evidence synthesis

Evidence synthesis includes any method of identifying, selecting, and combining results from multiple studies. Literature reviews, including scoping and systematic reviews, are a form of evidence synthesis. 

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Consultation and instruction

The librarian provides training or advice in conducting evidence synthesis during a research consultation. Available to any faculty member, student, or staff member.

Partnership and collaboration

The librarian joins your team as a contributing researcher and co-author. They are responsible for some tasks, which may include designing and implementing comprehensive and reproducible search strategies.

This support is open to grant-funded projects only, where the librarian’s contribution is offered as an in-kind contribution.

Gather data

Librarians have expertise in tools and techniques for data gathering. We can also help you identify and navigate different data sources.

Finding data

We curate thousands of licensed and open datasets for research. Get help finding the data you need for your project.

• Learn more about
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• Get help from your subject liaison librarian.

Synthesizing data and managing citations

Conducting a complex literature review or other form of evidence synthesis?

Get in touch! We provide training and support for:

• software for article screening, such as
• for organizing and citing references
• documentation and reporting of searches 

Confidential data from Statistics Canada

Statistics Canada has a (RDC) in the basement of Mearns – McPherson Library. The RDC provides access to confidential microdata from Statistics Canada for social research.  

Structure & analyze data

We offer training on a wide variety of tools, techniques, and platforms. We can support digitization, metadata development for digital research objects, and digital hosting. We also offer in-kind support for grant-funded data analysis.

AI tools & training

Try our transcription tools  and : speed up audio and handwritten document transcription while preserving data privacy.

Check out our guide on  for up-to-date information on the ethical use, evaluation, and citation of AI outputs.

Publish your work

We support open access (OA), traditional, and alternative publishing. We can help you identify a publishing venue, meet Tri-Agency requirements, and fund your OA publishing. 

Support for OA publishing

We work with publishers to arrange waivers and discounts on article processing charges (APCs) for ������Ƶ researchers.

ePublishing program

Our extends the reach and reputation of ������Ƶ faculty. We work with ������Ƶ authors to publish scholarly and educational journals and books.

Protect your rights

We provide information and advice to help you  and protect your intellectual property.

Deposit & preserve your work

We can help you preserve your research and meet open data requirements. We have the infrastructure to ensure your research data and findings are sustainably preserved for posterity.

Sharing and deposit

Share your work: meet Tri-Agency open access requirements by depositing your work in our institutional repository, .

Share your data: store and share your research data securely in our certified, trusted data repository.

Get a persistent identifier: when you publish your research outputs to our platforms, we provide a persistent identifier, such as a digital object identifier (DOI) or international standard book number (ISBN).

Digital preservation

We offer consultation, guidelines and access to platforms for preserving digital content.

• Learn more about digital preservation at ������Ƶ Libraries.
• Contact Corey Davis, Digital Preservation Librarian, to discuss your preservation project.

Increase your impact

 We can help you raise your scholarly profile and increase your research impact.

• Get help creating an and understanding
• Bring your scholarship to life online—take a workshop on podcasting, video editing, personal website creation, and more.
• Explore podcasting and other media creation options in our media & making spaces.

Digital exhibits

We support the creation of engaging digital exhibits through our platforms  and .

For help with Spotlight, contact Sam MacFarlane, Knowledge Translation Librarian.

For help with Omeka, contact Kim Shortreed, Digital Scholarship Specialist.

Other research services at ������Ƶ

• The Research Computing Services team supports ������Ƶ researchers across all disciplines.
• The Office of Research Services helps researchers secure funding and complete ethics reviews.
• The Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC) collaborates with researchers and instructors on digital humanities and language learning projects.