Library support for researchers

The Library provides an extensive collection of information resources. Librarians can help you develop search strategies, choose appropriate databases and find full text articles and books.

• Learn how to develop a search strategy and get the most out of databases at a Getting Started with Library Research or a Systematically Searching Literature workshop.
• Discover how to find influential research and researchers in your field by attending an Introducing Research Impact workshop or reading our online Research impact guide.
• A Keeping up-to-date workshop and the Keeping up-to-date guide can help you use social media tools and email alerts to keep up to date with the latest in your research area, follow well-known authors in your field and get citation alerts for your own articles.
• Request an Interlibrary loan for items you find that aren’t held in our collections.

The Library subscribes to several databases of external funding opportunities:

• Research Professional
• givUS (formerly Fundview)
• givME (formerly Breakout)

Contact the University Research Office or your Faculty Research Office to find more research funding information. The Funding Research page on TUIA also provides useful information and links.

Research ethics

Find ethics forms, approval guidelines and procedures on the AUT Research ethics website.

Research methods

• Use library books, research publications in your field and the Sage Research Methods database to investigate the best research methods for your research.
• Find out how other students used research methodologies in their postgraduate theses and dissertations.
• Learn the steps for conducting systematic reviews.

Research data management

• The Managing your research data guide provides information and resources for best practice in research data management.

Manage references

• Use the APA referencing style guide as a reference for specific APA style questions. The Chicago and Harvard style guides are also available.
• Features of the key reference management tools are summarised in this table.

Publish

• Read the Getting Published guide or attend a Publishing your research workshop to learn how to use databases and online tools to choose a journal for publishing.
• Contact Research Services to discuss your publishing strategy and to find more information on open access licenses, license agreements and how to avoid predatory journals.
• The Library's open access publishing platform Tuwhera hosts peer reviewed journals, conference proceedings and ebooks authored, edited and managed by academic staff at AUT. Check individual journals for their submission guidelines. If you would like us to host your open access journal on Tuwhera, please contact us.
• Te Mātāpuna Library & Learning Services has signed up to several Read and Publish agreements (transformative agreements) since 2021. These agreements enable corresponding authors from AUT to publish open access with some of the major publishers at no cost to themselves or the faculty. Find more detail from the Read & Publish page.

Plan your impact

Find frameworks to help you develop a pathway to impact on our Research Impact guide

Maximise your research impact

• The ORCiD and Researcher profile guide will help you make your research more visible online. All AUT staff are encouraged to sign up with ORCiD research identification.
• Keep your research profile on the AUT website updated by linking it to your research outputs in Research Elements
• Make the author-accepted manuscript version of your research articles available in the AUT research repository Tuwhera

Analyse your research impact

• Find how to use online tools to measure and analyse research impact in our online Research Impact guide.

Report your research activities

Research Elements is AUT's internal system for ​collecting, managing and reporting on research outputs and related activities.

If you need any help with Research Elements please contact the University Research Office.

Archive your publications

Tuwhera is AUT's open access research repository. Tuwhera archives AUT staff research outputs and postgraduate theses, dissertations and some Masters research projects.

The AUT Open Scholarship Policy makes AUT research, specifically journal articles and published conference papers, open by default. When AUT faculty members publish an article, you are required to also make the author-accepted manuscript version available in Tuwhera.

Find out more about the policy and how it works.

If you would like to know more about depositing your research output or thesis/dissertation in Tuwhera, go to the Tuwhera website, or contact a Scholarly Communications Librarian.