Scholarly Resources for Engineering and Applied Sciences Graduate Students: Home

This guide convers the topics Graduate Engineering Students ask me about most often:

• Citation Management to get organized, take notes, generate citations, collaborate, and more. 
• Finding Sources: where and how to search.
• Reading Literature: efficient and effective reading strategies for scholarly literature.
• Finding Publishing Venues and Scholarly Metrics so you can share your own research with the world. 

Scholarly research, writing, and publication is an iterative process, it usually isn't linear. You might find yourself going back and forth between these topics or steps. I created a graphic to highlight the interconnectedness of these steps, and how they relate to each other.

I also get a number of questions from Graduate Engineering Students about literature reviews, especially systematic reviews. On the Literature Reviews page I describe the types of literature reviews, including what makes a review a systematic review. I also link to guidance for conducting systematic reviews from several disciplines.