Research Tools for Graduate Students
A curated guide to some research tools and tricks that we think are handy for graduate students.
Your liaison librarian
It is useful to connect with your specific liaison librarian; they can help with research tools, search strategies, and much more.
Finding Dissertations and Theses
Miscellaneous
- Copyright-some things to keep in mind
- Government Info/Data-a guide to resources for government documents, statistics/data and geospatial data/maps
- Keeping up-to-date-using journal alerts
Can't find the book/article/thing you need?
Use RACER, our free interlibrary loan system to request a document from another library across Canada. It's easy to do, just sign up for a free account.
Any questions? Contact ILL at 807-343-8010 x8135 or email docdelivery@lakeheadu.ca.
Databases
- Cabell's Scholarly Analytics This link opens in a new windowCabell's is the complete source for journal info, evaluation metrics, and submission details-for universities of any size
- Statista This link opens in a new window-Over 1.5 million statistics (400-500 new statistics added each day)
-Covering more than 80,000 topics of information
-Over 1,500 Infographics
-Over 18,000 sources of information - Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowGoogle Scholar provides a way to search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
Finding scholarly sources online
- Lazy ScholarFinds free scholarly full text, metrics, and provides quick citation sharing links automatically...and much more.
- unpaywallunpaywall is a browser plug-in that identifies the paper you're looking for, then checks whether it's available for free anywhere on the web.