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Resources & Services for Researchers
Research Support Services
Research Support Services is intended for McMaster Health Sciences researchers and research assistants. These services can be tailored to meet your needs. For students seeking research assistance associated with course work, education programs, research projects or thesis work, please contact your liaison librarian.
These services are designed to complement the orientation and training sessions offered by the Health Sciences Library.
Training & Orientation
- Personalized orientation to the library, the services and resources
- Customized training sessions for your research group on our health databases including, OVID Medline, Embase; Ebsco CINAHL, and Cochrane Library; alternatively, you can teach yourself using our online tutorials.
- Sessions on using RefWorks, a web-based bibliographic management software; alternatively teach yourself using the online tutorial.
Research Consultation
- Recommend information resources to support your research needs
- Assist in developing your search strategies (fee may apply)
- Demonstrate how to create Auto Alerts (automatic updates) for your research projects
- Discuss potential sources of grey literature
- Provide suggestions on publishing in Open Access journals or submitting a manuscript to the Digital Commons (institutional repository) to meet CIHR funding requirements
- Support your use of RefWorks
Off Campus Access to Our Online Resources
- Access our online resources and databases using LibAccess. You must be affiliated with McMaster University to obtain a LibAccess account.
Mediated Search Services
- Have a professional perform the literature search in a variety of health databases. More about Mediated Search Services (fee based)
Obtaining items not held at McMaster
- Use our Interlibrary Loan services , RACER, to obtain books and journals not held at McMaster University (fee based)
- Obtain Dissertations & Theses
Technical Support
- Troubleshoot technical problems related to accessing library resources.
Links to helpful websites
- STAR-CV : (STaff Activity Reporter) is a web-based database application system More about STAR-CV; Go to STAR-CV
- Digital Commons - McMaster University's Institutional Repository
- Open Access
Contact Neera Bhatnagar, Head of Systems/ Coordinator of Research & Graduate Education Support for more information.
November 12, 2009