SOIL SCI 728 Graduate Seminar (Fall 2024; Spring 2025) : Supporting Your Research

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

Visit our Research Support portal to learn more!

• Evidence Synthesis and Systematic Reviews
  • See also Adapting Systematic Review Methods
• Publishing Your Research Article
  • Library Support for Open Access Publishing
• Grants Information Collection; Guides to Grants/Scholarships
• Understanding Impact Metrics

If using AI tools during any phase of your research or literature review process, it will be essential to disclose how and when you will have used any tool--whether it be for helping you to generate search terms and search syntax, for screening records, or for generating text in your manuscript. 

In the interest of transparency, too, you will also need to determine whether the output of the AI tool is sufficiently credible and reproducible.

Importantly, too, if intending to publish, be sure to carefully read the journal's editorial policies and instructions to authors. Journal publishers are issuing statements about the use of AI tools (especially Large Language Models/LLMs) and which tools are considered appropriate and ethical to use in any research submitted for their consideration.

The Writing Center

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

Citation Managers (EndNote, EndNote Web, Mendeley, and Zotero) are software tools for managing your citation records. Citation Managers will help you:

• Create and organize a personal research database,
• Format reference lists and in-text citations for papers or theses, and
• Share your citation lists with others.

DesignLab is a free, digital media design consultancy service for students, faculty and staff at UW-Madison.

Through one-on-one or small group (virtual) consultations, the DesignLab can help you with the conceptual, aesthetic, and overall design of projects for class assignments, student organizations, independent projects, and personal professional development.