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Who can request support?
- Undergraduate students.
- Postgraduate students.
- Lecturers.
- Research fellows.
- Academic departments.
- University research groups.
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Research consultations
Researchers can seek guidance on information discovery, database selection, literature searching, citation management, research visibility and scholarly communication.
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Literature review support
- Developing search strategies.
- Finding scholarly literature.
- Identifying databases.
- Organising sources.
- Evaluating evidence.
- Developing systematic search approaches.
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Research visibility support
- ORCID.
- Google Scholar.
- Institutional repository.
- Research metrics.
- Open-access dissemination.
- Researcher profiles.
Advantages
Saves researcher time.
Improves information discovery.
Strengthens literature reviews.
Improves scholarly visibility.
Builds researcher information literacy.
Consequences of neglect
- Researchers may spend excessive time searching inefficiently.
- Important evidence may be overlooked.
- Research outputs may receive limited visibility.
- Poor information practices can weaken research quality.
How the Library can help
- One-to-one consultations.
- Research workshops.
- Database training.
- Citation support.
- Researcher-profile support.
- Postgraduate research guidance.