Meet your librarian: introducing the Research Services Team
We recently started a series of blogs featuring some of the exceptional people who work in your library. If you visit our campuses, soon you’ll start to see new digital displays with pictures and key information at our campuses, including on the five-screen showcase in Waterfront Library.
Whether or not you visit the library regularly, we want you to have the chance to meet your librarians and get to know the resources they recommend to help you succeed in your research and studies. Up first, meet our Library Research Services Team!
The team
- Sabina Robertson – Manager
- Josipa Crnic – Scholarly Services Librarian
- Peter Nichols – Research Librarian
- Caitlin Savage – Research Librarian
- Marzieh Asgari – Research Librarian
- Sam Cadman – Library Research Support Officer
- Nasim Yazdani – Library Research Support Officer
What the team does
The Library’s Research Services Team works with researchers and HDR students across all faculties, institutes and research centres.
Area of expertise
- Bibliometrics
- Managing research profiles
- Literature searching and review
- Reference management software
- Support with Research Data Management
Favourite quotes
‘Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.’ – thought to be Albert Einstein
‘A bunch of chopsticks is stronger than one chopstick.’ – Chinese saying
‘If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn’t be called research.’ – Einstein again
‘I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.’ – Jorge Luis Borges
‘People are curious. A few people are. They will be driven to find things out, even trivial things. They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.’ – Alice Munro
Key library resources for research
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of research literature, covering Life Sciences, Health Sciences, Physical Sciences and Social Sciences. Use Scopus to broaden your literature search by tracking citations, following key authors and discovering related documents. Great visualisation features help you analyse the literature to uncover new insights. Use the metrics in your Scopus profile to help demonstrate your research impact. A must for citation analysis!
Web of Science is another essential citation index, with coverage of all disciplines and over a billion references going back to 1900. Want to know how often a key article has been cited? Search for it in Web of Science. Want to identify articles that had a big impact on your field? Search for a topic and sort the results by citation count. Web of Science is the home of the Journal Impact Factor, and two of its journal indexes make up the journal list used in the ARWU university rankings.
Create an account in Research Professional to discover a wide range of research funding opportunities like grants, fellowships, and awards both in Australia and internationally. Set up your search criteria to receive personalised alerts based on your eligibility. With news and analysis of the research and funding landscape, and detailed search functions, Research Professional is a source of essential information for all researchers.
Deakin Library Research Services
Visit the Library’s Research webpage to connect with all the support available to Deakin researchers and research students. Access online help with tutorials and videos or register for our training sessions. Find out everything you need to know about searching for literature, managing your references with EndNote, publishing and making your research open access, managing your research data and demonstrating your research impact.
Some of our favourite books
- Lethal White by Robert Galbraith (borrow it)
- Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
- Gmorning, Gnight!: Little pep talks for me & you by Lin-Manuel Miranda and illustrator Jonny Sun (borrow it)
- Florette by Anna Walker (borrow it)
- Paddington at St Paul’s by Michael Bond & RW Alley
- Milkman by Anna Burns (borrow it)
- The Long Take by Robin Robertson
Want to get in touch?
Email [email protected].
Originally published on Article, the Deakin Library blog.