Academic research support
Optimise your research impact, enhance your research profile, access research tools, and discover library resources.
The Library provides a range of help services to academic and PhD researchers. Services include resource discovery, how to increase your research impact, enhancing your researcher profile, open access publishing, publishing strategies and advice, analytics and advice about identifying potential collections.
Your subject librarian can provide further information about any of these topics.
Altmetrics
Altmetrics, or alternative metrics, is the measurement of online social engagement with research outputs
Bibliometrics
Bibliometrics is the use of statistical measures to analyse publication data
Open access
This guide provides information about open access publishing and sharing research data.
Research data management
How to maintain and organise your data over the course of your research
Researcher profiles
Advice for creating a researcher profile and getting an ORCID
Strategic publishing
Find out more about scholarly publishing, predatory publishers, author rights and open access.