Find funding
Find funding opportunities by searching SPIN and Foundation Directory Online. Step-by-step walkthroughs are available to set up a personalized account and tailor searches.
Researcher support
Our librarians offer a variety of research support services. These services are available for free to all U of M faculty, staff, and graduate students. Research support is also available to U of M departments, colleges, schools, research centers, and labs.
Research impact
- Request custom research impact reports that detail international impact, policy and media impact, and visualizations of collaboration networks.
- Receive support for research dissemination, including identification of journals for publication, and methods of disseminating non-traditional research outputs.
- Learn about, and use online, profiling and network tools like Experts@Minnesota.
Funding
- Get support for grant applications, including biosketch development and data management plans.
- Comply with funding agency policies.
- Identify funding sources and opportunities.
Data science
- Enhance research reproducibility through effective data management.
- Find computational methods education and training.
- Identify tools and strategies to optimize data collection and analysis.
- Find existing sources of data to enable secondary data analysis.
Researcher tasks
Maximize impact
Take the 10-day Impact Challenge to increase the visibility of your research by setting up your ORCID iD, updating your Experts@Minnesota profile, and more!
Share research
Archive articles, presentations, reports and other scholarly works in the University Digital Conservancy. Place digital research data in the Data Repository for the U of M (DRUM).
Mine text
Access a broad collection of electronic resources that enable discovery and text mining, such as newspaper and scholarly journal collections.
Locate data
Find government and census data, geospatial data, business statistics, or health-related data sets to enable secondary data analysis.
Organize materials
Learn about citation managers through our online tutorial and compare those tools to find the one that’s best for you.
Create a biosketch
Use SciENcv to create a biosketch (professional profile) for National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science Foundation (NSF) grant applications.
Related staff
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Research/Outreach Services, Mortuary Science, Center for Allied Health Programs and Center for Bioethics Librarian