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Tools for Institute Researchers and Authors

State Scientific Surveys

• Illinois Natural History Survey
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• Illinois State Archaeological Survey
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• Illinois State Geological Survey
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• Illinois State Water Survey
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• Illinois Sustainable Technology Center

Find Funding

GrantForward
Searchable database of funding announcements and RFPs.
Set up an automated alert for funding announcements in your research area.
For assistance, contact your librarian

News from the Library, Funding Opportunities

Citation Management Tools

• Endnote
• Mendeley
• RefWorks
• Zotero

Choosing Where and How to Publish

• Journal Citation Reports
• COS Papers Invited
• Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory
• Your Rights as an Author (publisher copyright transfer agreements and their implications)
  

Archiving Documents, Data, and More

• IDEALS Institutional Repository - University of Illinois' digital repository for research and scholarship.  Manuscripts and published papers, datasets, video and audio - produced at the University of Illinois are all eligible for deposit.  All faculty, staff, and graduate students can deposit into IDEALS. The Prairie Research Institute already has numerous collections in IDEALS; staff are encouraged to add their work to our collections.  For further information about IDEALS, contact your librarian. 
• Scholarly Communication and Author Rights Information
• DataBib (beta version of a data repositories database, created by Purdue University Library)
• Directory of Data Repositories and Aggregators
• Center for Multimedia Excellence - An interdisciplinary group of campus media, IT, library, and communication staff whose purpose is development of shared knowledge, best practices, and resources for media production, publishing, accessibility, and preservation, so as to improve the quality and impact of media used for education, research, outreach, and public service.

Data Management & Data Services

• DataBib - A tool for locating online repositories of research data.
• DMPTool - Online tool for writing a data management plan to satisfy a wide range of funding agencies, including the National Science Foundation.
• Guide to Data Management - Tips for managing, describing and citing data from the UMass at Amherst Libraries.
• Life Sciences Data Services page - from Sarah Williams, Life Sciences Data Services Librarian, University of Illinois
• Quick Guide to Data Citation - How to cite a data set. 
• Scholarly Commons Data Services - Assistance with numerical and spatial data for teaching and research.

Patent Resources

• University of Illinois Academic Staff Policy Handbook Chapter 5
  (contains University policy on Intellectual Property rights)
• Guide to Finding Patent Information produced by Grainger Engineering Library
• US Patent and Trademark office
• European Patent Office, Espacenet Patent Search
• World Intellectual Property Organization

Online Professional Networking

• Citations (create a profile in Google Scholar to track citations to your publications)
• Linked-In
• ResearchGate

Online Collaboration and Project Management Tools

• UofIBox (File sharing system available to faculty and staff; collaborate with others on and off campus)
• CITES Wiki (University of Illinois Wiki platform)
• ColWiz (free online project management tool)
• Google Docs
• HubZero Platform for Scientific Collaboration

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Last modified by: Susan Braxton on 4/28/13