Services for research

The Library's research goal is to enhance the University’s standing and influence through scholarly research support. We strive to do that by:

Supporting scholarship through all stages of the research cycle
Adopting strategic changes that align with national and international research policy initiatives
Heightening awareness of available Library resources and support for researchers through collaboration

Expert Advice

The faculty librarians are your first point of contact for any conversations about how the Library can help with your research.

We can help with advice on information resources, literature reviews, current awareness, open access and bibliometrics. More complex copyright and scholarly publishing questions may be referred to Antoinette Cass, Manager Scholarly Publications & Copyright.

Library Research Guides

Help you can use at various stages of your workflow.

Databases

There are different ways to filter and search in the Library's A-Z list of electronic resources. Try these suggestions depending on your research needs.

Scholarly Publishing

Research Portal

Library Services manages the Research Outputs module which showcases many types of publications including Datasets and Theses.

44% of outputs were identified as open access in January 2021.

Copyright Compliance Module

The Library's Copyright Compliance Course for Bond staff.

Go to iLearn > Communities > Bond HR Learning & Development > Copyright Compliance

Digital Collections

The Library hosts open access resources developed by Bond staff and students. Contact your faculty librarian if you are developing open educational resources and would like them added to the Library's Collections area.

Open access & scholarly publishing

Learn about the benefits of Open Access, publication models including read & publish agreements, OA journal assessment resources and tools to find quality scholarly Open Access material.

Access to resources

Requesting books and articles

If the item you need is on the shelf in the Library or currently on loan to someone else, place a Click & Collect request via Library Search.

You can also use the Get It for me request option in Library Search for a portion of a book, or a journal article from the print collection if you are working remotely and cannot visit in person.

If the Library doesn't have the item you need, place a request for it in Library Search. We will attempt to supply it from another library for you or purchase it for the Library's collection. Delivery time for digital chapters and articles is usually less than 1 day!

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Library Search

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Research Tools

Qualtrics

Qualtrics is an online tool for creating and distributing research surveys. Bond University has a Qualtrics site licence for staff and students conducting academic research.

Go to Qualtrics

NVivo

Designed to help researchers analyse and organise data derived from qualitative and mixed methods research such as interviews, focus groups, and surveys.

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Covidence

A web-based software platform that streamlines systematic reviews, screening citations and full text, risk assessment of bias or extracting study characteristics and outcomes.

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