Essential services for researchers
The Libraries' Scholarly Communications team and your Liaison Librarian can provide assistance on the following topics:
Research impacts and metrics
Librarians can help you and your research team assess publication venues for impact and assist in avoiding predatory publication outlets. Librarians can also help your develop your researcher profile and enrich your tenure portfolio by helping you find your h-index, impact factor, citation counts, alternative metrics and more.
Author support
Often publishers create barriers for authors who want to reuse their work, or allow others to use it.. Librarians can review your contract agreements and provide support and expertise in negotiating your rights. This is particularly important for authors who need have funding requirements for open access.
Research integrity
Complying with funder Open Access policies
Librarians will provide support for complying with the new Tri-Agency (SSHRC, NSERC, CIHR) Policy on Open Access publications. We can assist in depositing your work in McGill Libraries' institutional repository eScholarship as a means to comply with this new policy. The repository exists in an online, open-access environment, making it easy for researchers all over the world to find and access the your research output.
Data management planning and sharing
Canada’s three federal research granting agencies— CIHR, NSERC, and SSHRC—have adopted the Tri-Agency Statement of Principles on Digital Data Management. Librarians are available to support researchers establishing and implementing data management practices that are consistent with ethical, legal, and commercial obligations, as well as Tri-Agency requirements. Librarians can also advise on the best repositories or platforms that securely preserve, curate and provide continued access to research data.
Copyright permissions and best practices
For researchers wishing to incorporate third-party content, such as figures or photographs into their research outputs, the Libraries can advise on copyright best practices, including how and when permissions should be sought. For more information, researchers can contact their Liaison Librarian or copyright.library [at] mcgill.ca or consult https://www.mcgill.ca/copyright.
