ASHS Faculty Library Services

The library's research support services include:

• Designing search strategies and conducting literature searches on your behalf
• Provide in-depth consultations to support systematic and scoping reviews
• Co-authoring systematic and scoping reviews
• Identifying grey literature for a literature review
• Consulting on research data management and data sharing
• Finding datasets for your research question
• Helping you comply with funder and journal data-sharing policies (such as the 2023 NIH DMS Policy)
• Teaching small groups or classes on any of the above topics

The library provides a variety of scholarly communication services to help you in your writing, publishing, and scholarship. Some of our services include:

• Recommending high-quality journals that fit your research
• Evaluating potentially predatory journals
• Identifying ways you can publish your work open access
• Helping you understand copyright and publishing agreements
• Evaluating the research impact of a journal
• Helping you properly format your citations
• Teaching you how to use citation management tools

The library provides a variety of data services to help you manage your research data. Reach out to your liaison librarian for assistance or questions.

Our data services include

• Consulting on how to write data management and sharing plan
• Reviewing your data management and sharing plan
• Recommending the best repository to share your data in
• Finding data to support a research topic
• Explaining funder/publisher data sharing requirements (such as the NIH DMS policy)
• Recommending tools and resources for research data management
• Answering copyright and licensing information, including what license to use to share your data and understanding how you can use other people's data
• Consultations and customized instruction on research data management and data sharing best practices