Research Guides: How to use. . . .: Resources

Guides Designed for Specific User Groups

Research 101
A brief introduction to college-level research.
Faculty Resources
Research and teaching support for faculty.
Integrating Library Content into Canvas
Help for instructors who want to integrate library content into Canvas courses.
Online Tools: Instruction
For faculty, instructors, and librarians, this guide includes an assortment of tutorials, videos, animations, and other tools that may be useful in your courses.
Resources & Support for Digital Scholarship
Provides broad coverage of technologies, methodologies, resources, and scholarship in the digital humanities.
Graduate Student Survival Kit
Research Guide for Community Users
Transfer Students
Central Kentucky LGBTQ* Youth Resources

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Guides to help you use specific or specialized groups of tools

Book Review Sources
BrowZine
Learn how to get academic journals delivered to your iOS and Android devices or access them via the web.
Digital Object Identifiers DOIs)
Shows how to use and create reliable URLs for permanent access.
Dissertation Planner
E-Books at the University of Kentucky
EndNote
Evidence-Based Medicine
Glossary of Library Terms
Helps you understand some of the specialized language you will encounter when doing academic research.
ICPSR
The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) provides access to social science data files.
InfoKat Discovery
Medical Center Library Mobile Resources
Information about health resources available to UK clinicians and students via mobile devices.
Newspapers
Lists resources that contain indexing and/or full-text of newspapers.
NIH Public Access Policy
Open Access
A guide to issues in open access, author rights, copyright, open licensing, and scholarly communication.
Publishing, Research, and Scholarly Communication
Resources and services provided by the Collections, Digital Scholarship and Technical Services Division of UK Libraries.
readcube
Allows members of the UK community access to full-text articles from selected Nature titles to which UK Libraries does not subscribe.
Research Data Management
Resources and information to help you get started with data management, data preservation, and data sharing.
Research Impact Metrics
Introduction to different research impact metrics and tools for author disambiguation.
Style Guides and Manuals
Guide to the variety of tools to help you document your sources. Each subject area specifies the style to use for your research. Ask your instructor which style to use for your documented assignments.
UpToDate
Clinical decision support resource that is authored and peer-reviewed by physicians who are recognized experts in their medical specialties.