Selected Resources for Graduate Students in Plant Sciences (Agronomy, Horticulture) : Find Support for Your Research

In addition to our collections, UW-Madison Libraries provide support for all steps in your research process, from the planning stages through publication, archiving your output, and maximizing your scholarly impact.

Visit our Research Support page to learn more!

Browse library guides to funding: Grants/Scholarships

UW-Madison Research Data Services (RDS) can help you to efficiently curate and share your data and code. RDS is an interdisciplinary organization committed to advancing research data management practice on the UW-Madison campus, with a focus on providing researchers with the tools and resources that support their efforts to store, analyze and share data.

Here are some selected links from the RDS website to get you started:

  It is free and easy to sign up for an ORCID ID. An increasing number of publishers are requiring you to have an ORCID ID in order to submit your manuscript. Even if an ORCID ID is not required, there are many reasons to create one:

• Reliably connects you with your contributions and affiliations
• Saves you time – “enter once, re-use often”
• Improves recognition for you and your research outputs
• Alleviates mistaken identity

Our guide to researcher identity platforms provides support for creating and maintaining an ORCID ID.

The Writing Center

• Graduate Writing Groups
• Workshops for Graduate and Professional Students
• Writer's Handbook

Citation Managers such as EndNote, EndNote Basic, Mendeley, or Zotero are software tools for managing your citations. These tools can help you:

• Create and organize a personal research database
• Download citations from online databases
• Format reference lists and in-text citations for your manuscripts
• Share citations with collaborators