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Supporting research at WSU is one of the core missions of the WSU Libraries. This research guide highlights resources of interest to WSU researchers including online tools, training opportunities, and library services to support research activities. Browse this guide or contact your library liaison to learn more about resources and services that support research at WSU.

Liaison Librarians - Each academic department/college at WSU is assigned a professional librarian liaison that can be contacted to discuss library resources and services designed to meet the research needs of your department or college. Click on the link above to find contact information for the librarian assigned to your department/college.

Suggest a Title - Your liaison librarian can order new resources in your field, or you can use the link above to suggest a title for purchase by the libraries.

Research Guides - WSU Liaison Librarians have prepared research guides for each subject area to highlight frequently used and best resources for conducting research in a given discipline.

Funding Resources

Research Funding Opportunities – The WSU Division of Research provides a range of information on internal funding opportunities, corporate and foundation funding, searching for funding and more.

Important Funding Agency Links – The WSU Division of Research has compiled links to more than 60 major funding agencies.

COS Funding Opportunities – A comprehensive searchable database of funding information that includes government, foundation and corporate funding opportunities.

Training Opportunities

Division of Research Seminars and Training – The WSU Division of Research offers a variety of training opportunities related to research for faculty, postdocs and graduate students.

Scholarly Writing Workshops for Graduate Students – The WSU Graduate School sponsors a series of workshops to promote the development of scholarly writing skills.

Research Consulting - The WSU Technology Resource Center offers faculty, researchers and graduate students assistance with all areas of the research process that uses computing software, including refining research questions, preparing data for statistical analysis, and selecting programs that satisfy data analysis needs.

EndNote Tutorials – EndNote offers a variety of free online training tutorials and webinars.

Creating Posters using PowerPoint – Biomedical Communications, WSU School of Medicine offers tutorials and templates for creating posters using PowerPoint.

Keeping Current

Guide to Alerting Services - Many online journals and databases offer alerting services that notify subscribers of new issues of a journal or new results from a search. This guide describes various alerting services and provides links to publishers offering these services.

COS Scholar Universe - This searchable database helps researchers identify colleagues that have shared interests and expands awareness of current research and publications in your field of interest.

Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects (CRISP) - A database of federally funded biomedical research projects that can be searched for scientific concepts, emerging trends and techniques, or specific projects or investigators.

Writing Resources

Graduate Student Writing Resources – This website from the WSU Graduate School provides a variety of resources to assist graduate students writing dissertations, articles, theses, grant proposals, and prospectuses.

Scholarly Writing Workshops for Graduate Students – The WSU Graduate School sponsors a series of workshops to promote the development of scholarly writing skills.

Managing Citations – EndNote is a citation management software package that WSU has made available to all WSU faculty, staff and students.

• You can download EndNote from the WSU Software Clearinghouse
• You can learn how to use EndNote by viewing EndNote Online Training Tutorials

Publishing Resources

NIH Public Access Policy – This website is designed to help NIH grant recipients at WSU comply with NIH reporting requirements.

Journal Impact Factor Guide – This resource allows users to determine the Journal Impact Factors for over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals in the sciences and social sciences.

Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences – This website links to web pages that provide instructions to authors for over 3,500 journals in the health and life sciences.

Journal Abbreviation Sources is a registry of Web resources that list or provide access to the full title of journal abbreviations.

Author Rights

Publisher Copyright Policies – This website allows users to search for a summary of permissions that are normally given as part of each publisher's copyright transfer agreement.

Addendum to Standard Publisher Copyright Assignment – This MS Word document provides a template for modifying a publisher's copyright agreement.

Scholar's Copyright Addendum Engine – This website helps authors generate a PDF form that can be attached to a journal publisher's copyright agreement to ensure that the authors retain certain rights.

SPARC Addendum Publication Agreement – This form can be used to modify a publisher's agreement to allow authors to keep key rights to their articles.

NIH Public Access Policy – This website is designed to help NIH grant recipients at WSU comply with NIH reporting requirements.