Research - Library - Southern Cross University

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Library research services

Find SCU researchers and research outputs, learn about managing your researcher identifiers, profiles and data.

We can advise researchers on impact measures, open access, getting published, database alerting services and managing your research data. As well as develop an SCU Profile for you to promote your research profile, assist you with EndNote and help you obtain research literature.

As a researcher you are responsible for efficiently and responsibly carrying out your research and for communicating the results of research effectively.

Cross Connect is the public-facing institutional repository used to promote all types publications and research outputs at Southern Cross University.

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SCU Profiles showcase the publications, grants, awards and more of our staff.

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Researcher resources

Cross Connect and SCU Profiles

Cross Connect provides a platform to showcase the research of Southern Cross University researchers and, where possible, provide Open Access to publications.

Anita Klaudia Perkins is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Coastal Biogeochemistry

Publishing for impact

A publication's reliability, integrity and quality needs to be considered when identifying where to publish.

Coffee researcher and scientist Professor Tobias Kretzschmar at a coffee plant trial site in Alstonville.

Open Access

Making your research available on Open Access means that it can be freely accessed by anyone in the world using an internet connection.

Zi Tang, PhD engineering student using mechanical engineering equipment in A block facilities Lismore campus

Managing your researcher identifiers

Learn about setting up your different identifiers and profiles, including ORCID.

Marine Science Student Olly Pitt with small turtle

Copyright for staff

If you use copyright material as part of your work, you are required to observe copyright law.

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EndNote

The EndNote program enables you to store and manage your references, to create bibliographies and to use the "Cite While You Write" feature.

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Librarian consultation

Book a consultation with a Faculty & College librarian

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Useful contacts

Graduate School

Research Launchpad

HDR student resources

RAISE

Researcher Advanced Information Skills and Education is an independent-learning tool designed to build the research skills of Southern Cross University postgraduate students.

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Copyright and your thesis

Your thesis will more than likely contain excerpts from other publications, such as diagrams, illustrations, quotations and maps that are used to support your arguments.

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Librarian consultation

Book a consultation with a Faculty & College librarian for research advice including search strategies, database alerting services, etc.

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Finding theses

Search the SCU collection of theses or learn about finding theses from other Universities.

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Library guides

Library guides provide subject-specific resources and databases to help with your literature searching.

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EndNote

The EndNote program enables you to store and manage your references, to create bibliographies and to use the "Cite While You Write" feature.

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Professor Ed Burton of Southern Cross Geoscience is looking at the levels of a toxic element in bushfire affected soil

Research data management

RDM through the project lifecycle

As a researcher you are responsible for efficiently and responsibly carrying out your research and for communicating the results of research effectively.

Publishing and re-using data

Where are datasets published? How can they be re-used?

DVCR Research data management

Find more information from the Office of the DVC Research

Faculty and College Librarians

The Library can advise researchers on impact measures, open access, getting published, database alerting services, and managing your research data.