Academic research support
Optimise your research visibility, 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 visibility, enhancing your researcher profile, open access publishing, publishing strategies and advice, analytics and advice about identifying potential collections.
Research services and support
Contact your subject librarian to discuss any of the following:
- Book a research consultation
- Optimising your research visibility
- Researcher profiles – a guide explaining the different kinds of profiles for researchers
- Getting an ORCID ID
- Strategic publishing advice on selecting the best publishing options for your research outputs
- Open access – guide to open access publishing and the sharing of research data
- Research data management – how to maintain and organise your data over the course of your research
- Te Waharoa – your search interface to the library collection
- Databases – subject specific academic articles and resources
- Research Archive – Victoria University of Wellington’s online research outputs and theses
- Finding newspapers – how to find our newspaper subscriptions
- Finding theses and dissertations
- Finding and using e-books
Postgraduate study spaces
The Library has dedicated study rooms for Postgraduate students at the Kelburn and Law libraries.
You can also book one of our group study rooms.
University research software
The University offers a range of supported software. Contact the Centre for Academic Development for advice and support.
Workshops
We run group help sessions throughout the year – keep an eye on our workshops and events page.