• Discovery: library resources, grant funding, the latest scholarship, collaborators.
• Use: specialized software, consulting services, and information tools.
• Creation: digital objects (video, blogs, scans) or publishing your work to the web.
• Dissemination: author's rights, copyright, and impact.

Discover...

• Reference Help and "Ask Us" services via phone, email, in-person and 24-hour chat.
• Government and private grant opportunities through our hands-on workshops and online tools.
• How to keep current with research in your field by setting up alerts and feeds with our extensive subject databases.
• Other experts on campus to collaborate with using our networking tools, Experts@Minnesota and UMN Profiles (AHC only).

Use...

• Specialized computing software, including:
  • GIS in the Borchert map library,
  • data and statistical (eg. SPSS) support from our Data Services, and
  • media production (eg. Photoshop) software and hardware in the SMART Learning Commons.
• Data management tools to store, preserve and share your digital data.
• Consultation services for writing a data management plan (DMP) to fulfill federal requirements from NSF, NIH and beyond.
• best practices and tools for taming the flood of information in your life, from full text PDFs to personal archiving, using our Personal Information Management productivity resources.

Create...

• Scanned objects for digital analysis using our scanning and digitization services and textual analysis tools, like MONK. Visit the Libraries' Digital Arts, Sciences, and Humanities group for more.
• Video using our media production services and share it with our video hosting service, UMedia.
• blogs and websites using web-development tools such as our UThink Blogs, and digital library services.
• a web archive of your publications, presentations, and data using our institutional repository, the University Digital Conservancy.

Disseminate...

• Ensure long-term access to your work by archiving your papers, presentations, and data in our University Digital Conservancy, the university's institutional repository.
• Retain your copyrights with our Authors' Addendum for journal publishing agreements.
• Answer Copyright and Fair Use questions.
• Evaluate emerging publishing models such as subject repositories and open-access journals.
• Identify journal and research impact factors and conduct citation analyses of individuals or groups.