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Your Brown University Library provides support to researchers across all stages of the research lifecycle. This site provides access to information and tools to plan, conduct, manage, disseminate and preserve research. Students may also be interested in our guide to student research support.

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Please contact library@brown.edu with any questions or requests for support. 
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Citation management tools to help you cite and manage your sources

  • Endnote
  • Guidance for formatting citations for publication
  • Perma.cc
  • Zotero

Help interpreting copyright and fair use, and information on how to obtain permission for reuse of copyrighted materials

  • Assistance with obtaining permissions
  • Determine copyright status and application of Fair Use
  • Guidance on author’s rights

Support for the full lifecycle of digital scholarship projects, including working with data, creating and disseminating digital publications, and applying for grants

  • Brown University Digital Publications
  • Creating and processing data sets
  • Data Visualization
  • Digital Research Project Consulting, Design, and Implementation
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  • Locating and accessing data sets
  • Mapping
  • Network analysis
  • Text analysis and data mining

Guidance and resources for the grant application process and compliance

  • Guidance on engaged scholarship and broader impacts
  • Research Data Management and Sharing
  • Scanning and digitization
  • Support for public access compliance mandates

How to find, create, process, visualize, and analyze data

  • Census and demographic data
  • Creating and processing data sets
  • Data Visualization
  • Financial and business data
  • GIS and geospatial data
  • Locating and accessing data sets
  • Network analysis
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Access to library collections to support research

  • Archival and Special Collections
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  • Request purchase of library materials to support research

Library expert staff offer overviews and evaluations of existing literature on a research topic

  • Health Sciences Evidence Synthesis Service
  • Literature review consultations

Resources for preserving and communicating your scholarly output, including Open Access

  • Acquire a domain and web space
  • Brown University Digital Publications
  • Citation management
  • Copyright and Fair Use
  • Deposit materials in the Brown Digital Repository
  • Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Services
  • Licensing, Publisher Agreements, and Publication Outlets
  • Open Access publishing and public access compliance
  • Open Educational Resources (OER)

Library infrastructure for storing and maintaining research materials and data

  • Deposit materials in the Brown Digital Repository
  • Deposit research data

Library experts are here to help you with your research projects in any discipline

  • Reach out to a library expert in your area of interest for assistance with:
    • Research strategy, and finding and locating information
    • Current awareness and research alerts
    • Training for researchers and assistants
  • Consultations for digital projects
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Expertise on data curation and management as well as resources for storing and publishing data

  • Data curation, management and sharing plans
  • Data rights and permissions
  • Deposit research data
  • Electronic Lab Notebooks
  • Publishing and citing research data

Resources for assessing and demonstrating research impact

  • Research impact and metrics
  • Researcher identity
  • VIVO

Access and use Brown’s special collections and archives.

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