Engineering Education & Research: Getting Started @ The Libraries

In addition to engineering databases like Compendex (Engineering Village) and IEEE Explore, UF has many education-related databases.

How is collaborative research defined in your discipline?

• It's important to establish roles and authorship at the beginning of a project, and create partnering agreements. 
• Who should be the authors of your article, and who merits acknowledgement rather than authorship?  
• Consider the widely-recognized standards of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), which state authorship credit should be based upon these criteria.

More topics related to Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) from the APA.

These programs will save you hours--literally!--of time. Citation management software can store all your articles and reformat them to meet the requirements of just about any journal. Just remember to proofread your works cited (or bibliography or references) page in case a citation wasn't formed properly in a database.

Find out more on our Citation Management guide.

Check out the Education Writing Resources Guide. The guide has books to help you with:

• Research Design & Methodology

• Academic Writing

• Dissertation Writing

• Grant Writing

• Writing Literature Reviews

Use the Research Metrics Guide to find out:

• How to locate impact factors for individual journals using tools such as Journal Citation Reports (JCR) and SCImago Journal and Country Rank (SJR)
• How to conduct citation analysis by author and by article
• New and alternative ways to measure influence and impact of research
• Information on traditional and alternative forms of peer review

The issue of predatory journals is on the increase. Here is a short presentation about Navigating Questionable Publishing Practices

Below are some tips from the library to evaluate potential publication venues prior to submitting:

• Reputable journals are included in databases such as InCites Journal Citation Reports, PubMed, Compendex, or Web of Science which apply rigorous criteria for scholarship and adherence to best publishing practices.

• Check a journal for transparent policies, particularly regarding editorial board composition, peer-review and reasonable author processing fees. Think, Check, Submit offers a great checklist to help you evaluate a journal’s credibility.

• Reputable journal publishers tend to be members of organizations such as COPE or OASPA and adhere to these organizations’ recommended practices for ethical, transparent scholarly publishing.

Need help evaluating? Contact me at abuhler@ufl.edu. Perry Collins (perrycollins@ufl.edu), our Copyright and Open Educational Resources Librarian, is also a great resource.

National Science Foundation

Department of Education

One of the easiest ways to locate federal grant opportunities is searching the opportunities database on www.grants.gov (they even have a mobile app you can use).