Research Guides
Life Sciences Graduate Students - Research Tips: Getting Started
Full-Text Articles
What I recommend for getting to full-text articles efficiently.
- Download the LibKey Nomad extension.
- Use the UW link to PubMed.
- Link your Google Scholar account to the UW Libraries.
- When off campus, use the UW VPN, Husky OnNet. Change the server to "all internet traffic."
Searching for Articles and Managing References
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Navigating the Scholarly Literature: A Practical Guide to Searching Effectively (Without Too Much Stress)Current Protocols. 2025 May;5(5):e70138. doi: 10.1002/cpz1.70138.
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Citation Management ToolsEndNote and Zotero.
Contact a Librarian
Contact Diana Louden for assistance with:
- Research Strategies and Databases
- Current Awareness Alerts
- Using Citation Managers
- Research Support for Grant Applications and Publishing
- Literature Reviews, Including Systematic Reviews
- Strategies for Demonstrating Research Impact
- Tracking Down Difficult-to-Find Information
UW Graduate Student Resources
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Graduate Student Research InstituteModules on conducting research, publishing, presenting, & using UW library resources and services.
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UW Research CommonsIndividual help with finding funding, writing, managing citations, designing figures and posters, and text mining.
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UW Open Scholarship Commons
Expanding and Describing Your Research Impact
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Research Impact guide: monitoring and increasing the impact of your workStrategies for determining, describing, and expanding the impact of an author, article, or body of work
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Research Impact Checklist10 suggestions for establishing your research identity, expanding your reach, and monitoring & describing your research impact.