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Explore Research Support:
| Plan Your Research |
| Start with a clear question and locate the
institutional and national resources relevant to your project. |
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Visit Mercer’s Office of Research
Compliance for IRB review, research oversight, required training, and research
integrity guidance. |
Search registered clinical studies and
study results. |
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Prepare and maintain researcher
biosketches and related professional profiles. |
Explore funded research and federal
funding opportunities. |
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PolicyMap
Explore
and map health, demographic, housing, economic, and community indicators.
Compare places and identify geographic patterns relevant to population health,
community health needs assessments, and social determinants of health. The
quick start will walk users through how to make a map and also customizing data
layers and points. https://youtu.be/my3BRHmPLmU?feature=shared
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| Find & Evaluate the Evidence |
| Search biomedical literature, develop
reproducible strategies, and identify full-text research materials. |
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Search biomedical literature and use
Mercer library links to locate available full text. |
Search biomedical and pharmacological
literature, including extensive conference coverage. |
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Explore multidisciplinary literature
and citation relationships. |
Access Mercer’s full Cochrane
Library subscription for systematic reviews and other evidence synthesis
resources. |
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Check the library's electronic journal
holdings and access options. |
Explore specialized biomedical and
molecular biology databases through one authoritative portal. |
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Find library resources organized by
subject area to support your study and research. |
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| Manage Your Research |
| Organize your references, plan data
stewardship, and support transparent review workflows. |
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Review requirements for applicable
NIH-funded research, including the current data management and sharing plan
format.
Prepare
a DMS plan · DMPTool |
Support screening, data extraction,
and other stages of systematic and scoping reviews. |
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Review guidance for using AI tools
thoughtfully and transparently in academic and research work. |
Explore opportunities, limitations,
and verification practices for AI-assisted literature discovery. |
| Publish & Share Your Research |
| Choose an appropriate publication venue,
understand publishing options, and share your work responsibly. |
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Consider journal scope, audience,
indexing, publication model, and editorial practices. |
Assess conference fit, visibility, and
credibility before submitting an abstract. |
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For covered manuscripts accepted on or
after July 1, 2025, NIH requires submission to PubMed Central upon acceptance
and public availability without embargo by the official publication date.
Review NIH guidance for scope and compliance. |
Consider transparency, verification,
confidentiality, and journal requirements when using AI in research and
writing. |
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Explore Mercer's open access
publishing agreements and determine whether you qualify for waived or covered
article processing charges (APCs). |
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| Measure & Showcase Your Research Impact |
| Explore citation measures, researcher
identifiers, and ways to improve the discoverability of your work. |
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Find guidance on author profiles,
article and journal metrics, and research visibility. |
Create or maintain a persistent
researcher identifier to distinguish your scholarly contributions. |
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Trace citation relationships and
explore how publications are cited over time. |
Explore journal-level indicators as
one element of a broader journal evaluation. |
| Get Research Assistance |
| MUSM librarians can help you select databases,
refine search strategies, locate full text, and navigate research and
publishing resources. |
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Contact your library liaison for help
with research resources, literature searching, access, and instruction.
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