Teaching and research support
Teaching support
The Library is here to support University of Newcastle teaching staff for pathways, undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
Each School has a dedicated Teaching Liaison Librarian who can assist with the University’s learning and teaching curriculum.
- Digital capabilities guide — the essential digital skills that students need for their course of study. The library can work with you to make digital capabilities resources more visible to your students.
- Course Readings — the Library can support you in acquiring and using reading materials within the courses that you teach.
- Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning and research materials that reside in the public domain. The Library has collected the resources to make it easier for you to find OER textbooks that suit you and your students' needs.
- Explore copyright requirements as they relate to teaching and resource use in courses.
Research support
The Library provides specialist support for researchers, including systematic reviews, referencing, citation analysis, promotion of research, and management of research data.
Each School has a dedicated Research Liaison Librarian who can guide researchers in undertaking literature searches, systematic reviews, referencing, and citation analysis.
- The Researcher Skills Toolkit provides a high-quality integrated resource for researchers at all stages of their study and career.
- Research guides and videos provide key information and knowledge to support your research.
- Learn more about conducting successful searches for literature reviews or systematic reviews
- Streamline the production of systematic and scoping reviews with Covidence.
- Manage references using citation management tools, such as EndNote and Mendeley.
- Cloud Computing for Research: Learn how to use cloud computing to process data and access powerful tools for your research. Visit the Digital Services for Research SharePoint site (university users only) to learn more and request access.
- The University of Newcastle requires all research postgraduates to deposit a digital version of their thesis in our repository, Open Research Newcastle .
- Learn about the benefits of open access and open data, and how to publish without paying an article processing charge via our ‘Read and Publish’ Agreements and the APC Fund.
- Learn more about strategic publishing to help you reach your target audience and support your career goals.
- Find out how to obtain an ISBN, ISSN or DOI.
- Support creating an ORCID and connecting researcher identifiers.
- Access our Data management and Toolkit resources for guidance on maintaining reliable and accurate data throughout its lifecycle.
- Learn more about the metrics for measuring the impact of your research.
- Researchers are responsible for managing their research publications and non-traditional research outputs in the NURO Research Publications Management System.
- Explore copyright requirements as they relate to research. Copyright can affect multiple aspects of research, including ownership, reuse of materials, and open access.
The University of Newcastle acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands within our footprint areas: Awabakal, Darkinjung, Biripai, Worimi, Wonnarua, and Eora Nations. We also pay respect to the wisdom of our Elders past and present.