Politics and International Studies: Research Support

Research support librarians provide Information services to postgraduate students (PG) from honours level to PhD, and researchers from all faculties.  See name of the  Librarian and contacts below:

Recommended to PG students, supervisors and researchers:

1. Know your library: : an overview of Library facilities / resources /services  for PG students & researchers
2. Stay Away From Plagiarism! (advanced)
3. Turnitin: Originality reports
4. e-Resources (advanced searching technique and more)
5. Referencing made easy with Endnote
6. Open access Institutional Repositories (IR) and Electronic Theses & Dissertations (ETDs)
7. SA databases (SA e-publications, Current & completed projects – NRF, ISAP, etc.)
8. Inter-Library Loans (ILL): saving time with Pre-request
9. Enhancing Postgraduate Environment (EPE)
10. Press-Reader (Learn how to have unlimited access to thousands of magazines and newspapers from around the world)

 Recommended to senior PG students, their supervisors and researchers:

11. Publishing your results:  Peer refereed and accredited journals;  Open access, Copyright and use of SHERPA/RoMEO

12. Researchers’ Social networking: ResearchGate, Academia.edu, Mendeley.

13.Visibility counts: Researcher ID (ORCID) and Research metrics (bibliometrics, citation metrics, Journal impact factor, Altmetrics)

izulu.ac.za

librarian offer Online Library Workshops. To book a workshop please contact your Research Support Librarians:

Ms Zanele Hadebe - HadebeZ@unizulu.ac.za 035 902 6729

Please find a link below for the Research Support Libguide, where you will get more information and resources on research support.

https://unizulu.libapps.com/libguides/admin_c.php?g=930216