Researcher services

Research support

Researcher Services support you through the entire research lifecycle, from developing the initial proposal through to publication and dissemination of your findings.

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Manage references

Use recognised scholarly practices and referencing software, such as EndNote to organise your research literature and references effectively.

Choose your referencing software

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Working with data

Research data are created or captured to analyse and produce original research results.

Choose a data collection tool

Researcher profiles

A researcher profile helps showcase your research. Researcher identifiers, such as ORCiD, ResearcherID and Scopus Author Identifier, are unique, permanent identifiers that connect your name to your research outputs.

Researcher Profiles

Research metrics

Research metrics provide evidence of your performance in your academic field and can help describe your contribution and value to the university, the economy and society.

Research Metrics

Are you a new HDR candidate?

See what Library resources are available to support you during your research.

My account

Checkouts—view and renew your current loans (all users).
Requests—place and cancel holds (Griffith staff and students only) and view your interlibrary loan and document delivery requests (Griffith staff and eligible students).
Fees—view your library charges.
Search activity—view your search history or saved searches.

My account login

Learn how borrowing works

Scholarly publishing

Plan your research, quality check, research publishers or consider open access, revise, understand copyright, and promote your research

Scholarly publishing

Engage with open research, know your responsibilities, find open access publishers, explore tools, and understand read and publish agreements

Open Research

Make your research visible, discoverable, and accessible with Griffith Research Online and create your Griffith Expert profile.

Griffith Research Online

Skills training we offer

Managing your research data

Understand data management practices and data related resources and services, including data storage, ethics and copyright, available to Griffith researchers.

Data management tutorial

Reproducible research: building business continuity

Discover ten steps you can take to make your research more reproducible.

Reproducible research tutorial

Working with sensitive data

Learn how to work with sensitive data using the internationally recognised Five Safes Framework.

Sensitive data tutorial

Copyright, publishing and open access considerations for researchers

Learn about the copyright issues researchers face when publishing their outputs.

Copyright tutorial

Copyright, outputs and open access considerations for creative and performing arts researchers

Discover how to manage the unique copyright challenges faced in the creative and performing arts when publishing, exhibiting, performing and creating works. Explore the resources on our Griffith webpage for further information.

Copyright for creative arts guide

Library searching for literature reviews

Provides invaluable insights and practical guidance to help you master the intricacies of library searching for literature reviews.

Managing your research literature: identifying themes and ideas

Explore techniques and strategies for organising your research literature to enhance its coherence and support the overall flow of your writing.

Organise your literature guide

Systematic style reviews: building a robust search strategy

Learn expert search techniques using an example systematic review research question, which can be applied to your own review search strategy.

Develop your search strategy tutorial

Systematic style reviews: tips and tools for getting from start to finish

Discover tips and tools that can simplify systematic and systematic-style reviews from start to finish.

Systematic style review tools guide

Exploring your literature using bibliometrics and VOSviewer

Learn how VOSviewer can help visually explore and map literature.

VOSviewer guide

EndNote

Q & A session for troubleshooting and advice using EndNote for reference management.

EndNote basics tutorial

Data organisation in spreadsheets for researchers

Explore good data organization foundations for research data in spreadsheets.

Data organisation tutorial

LimeSurvey at Griffith

Discover how to successfully design, create and distribute a research survey using LimeSurvey. No workshop available.

LimeSurvey tutorial

Introduction to REDCap at Griffith

Learn how to build and deploy surveys in REDCap , a flexible web-based tool ideal for clinical and longitudinal trials.

REDCap tutorial

Introduction to data cleaning with OpenRefine

Learn basic data cleaning steps to transform raw or messy tabular data into a structured and organised format to enable processing and analysis.

Data cleaning tutorial

Advanced data wrangling with OpenRefine

Learn advanced data wrangling skills including combining tabular datasets, geolocating data and “what if” exploration.

Advanced data wrangling tutorial

External research datasets

Discover large, interdisciplinary, layered datasets to support research including ABS microdata, ADA , and other major virtual data labs and portals.

Research data guide

An introduction to digital texts and tools for HASS research

Discover digital methods and tools for building and preparing text datasets in HASS scholarship.

Text mining and analysis tutorial

Computational thinking

Learn strategies to breakdown a complex problem and develop possible solutions, in a way that a computer, a human or both can understand. No workshop available.

Computational thinking tutorial

Improving the tone and style of your academic writing

Gather strategies to develop your writing skills in order to compose text that has appropriate tone and style, providing clarity for the reader.

Improving tone and style tutorial

Conveying the argument in academic writing

Develop a clear argument in your writing as well as identifying arguments in the writing of others.

Conveying the argument tutorial

Writing the methods and methodology section

Gather strategies to write the methods and/or the methodology section in your work. No workshop available.

Methodology and methods tutorial

Analysing the literature and writing your review

Building on the Manage your research literature workshops, learn strategies to help plan, structure and write your literature review.

Analysing and writing tutorial

Writing a journal article

Learn about the features and structure of journal articles, as well as tips to help you shape your ideas into a publishable format.

Writing a journal article tutorial

Publishing during your PhD

Understand the requirements and guidelines for publishing as part of your PhD thesis. Workshop is available through the Griffith Graduate Research School ( GGRS ).

Publishing maze tutorial

Formatting your thesis

Learn to use Microsoft Word's automated features to apply consistent formatting efficiently throughout a document.

Formatting your thesis tutorial

Navigating the publishing maze for early career researchers

Discover strategies to resolve issues involved with academic publishing.

Publishing maze tutorial

Data visualisation basics

Explore methods and tools to create publication quality visualisations of structured data from spreadsheets.

Data visualisation tutorial

Data storytelling

Learn how to use data, visuals and narrative to bring together the story of your research.

Data storytelling tutorial

Cracking open research

Discover the benefits of open research and ways to make your research data and publications open.

Open research at Griffith guide

Researcher profiles

Discover the essential researcher profiles/identifiers and techniques to keep them automatically updated.

Researcher profiles guide

Research metrics for promotion

Explore metrics in Web of Science, Incites, Scopus and Google Scholar to find publication metrics for promotion and grant applications.

Metrics to support grants and promotions guide

Research metrics express: find my top 5 publications

Learn strategies for finding and determining top publications to include in your next grant applications.

Research metrics videos

Research metrics express: has my work been cited in policy?

Discover strategies for finding policy citations for individual publications.

Research metrics videos

Academic writing

Strengthen your academic writing skills with guides on style, format, and access to editing services.

Academic writing guides

Library resources

Library catalogue

Search the catalogue for journal articles, databases, books and ebooks, video content and more. Alternatively, search for databases in our A to Z list.

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