Accessing Helpful Research Resources

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Accessing Helpful Research Resources

• Graduate Student Advisory Board
• Research Panel

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University Resources

• Office of Research
• Statistical Consulting Center
• Research Software
• Interlibrary Loan
• Library Express
• Subject Librarians
• Bibliographic Management Software
• Training Classes
• Research Funds

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Office of Research(http//research.utk.edu)

• Conducting research or other sponsored programs
  requires that information be gathered for the
  protection of the university, researchers, and
  research subjects.
• Links to many of the relevant forms in compliance
  and proposal development are available including
  Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval for
  research involving human subjects.

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Statistical Consulting Center Services
(http//oit.utk.edu/scc)

• Support for SPSS, SAS, LabVIEW, MATLAB, Maple,
  Amos, AnswerTree, Excel, SamplePower...
• Research Planning including experimental design,
  sample size determination, sampling methods
• Survey Design Web Deployment
• Scan Form Scanning Scoring
• Data Acquisition Management including lab
  instrument control, data format conversion,
  import of census or ICPSR files.
• Data Analysis, Text Analysis, Data Mining and
  interpretation
• Data Graphics Visualization
• Writing or Editing results sections of articles
  we co-author

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Research Software (http//www.analysis.utk.edu)

• This system lets you run research software as if
  it were installed on your own computer.
• The software actually runs on a server and
  displays an image of it on your computer.
• It is very easy to use since you can open and
  save files on your own computers disk drive and
  print to your own printer.
• You can use it from any Windows, Macintosh,
  Linux, or Solaris computer.

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Research Software (http//www.analysis.utk.edu)

• Software available includes Amos, ATLAS.ti,
  Clementine, EQS, ImageJ, Insightful Miner, JMP,
  Maple, Mathematica, MATLAB, MestRec, Mplus,
  N6/NUDIST, NVivo, Origin, QDA Miner, R, Sample
  Power, SAS, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Enterprise
  Miner, SAS Text Miner, Scientific Notebook,
  SigmaPlot, SigmaScan, Simstat, S-PLUS, SPSS, Stat
  Transfer, Stata and SUDAAN.

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Interlibrary Loan (http//www.lib.utk.edu/ils)

• ILL serves UT faculty, staff, and students by
• locating and delivering materials not available
  at the University Libraries
• delivering documents for those registered with
  Distance Education Services

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Library Express (http//www.lib.utk.edu/circ/expre
ss)

• Library Express (LX) delivers books, bound
  periodicals and photocopies to UTK users at
  designated campus locations. LX also retrieves
  books from departmental offices and returns them
  to the library. There is no charge for these
  services.
• LX also provides copies (paper or electronic)
  from books, journals, and other materials owned
  by UT Libraries. There is a charge for this
  service.

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Subject Librarians (http//www.lib.utk.edu/refs/re
ference/services.html)

• Offer a variety of services designed to help
  individuals access information resources and use
  them effectively.
• Assistance may range from locating a needed fact
  or specific source to designing a search strategy
  for retrieving information on a broad topic.
• Subject librarians provide classroom instruction
  and have responsibility for managing the
  Libraries' collections.

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Endnote Bibliographic Management Software
(http//www.lib.utk.edu/refs/endnote)

• Can be used to
• Organize your research (citations, full-text
  articles, images, notes)
• Automatically generate in-text citations and
  bibliography as you write
• Automatically create bibliographies or reading
  lists for Blackboard
• Use templates to format papers for submission to
  journals

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Training Classes(http//oit.utk.edu/training.php)

• Computer-based training
• CBT offers technology, managerial, and
  supervisory curricula.
• Data Analysis Training Classes
• Microsoft Office
• Web Authoring Tools
• Data Analysis

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Research Funds

• Where to look?
• Your Department
• College of Ed. Health Human Sciences
• U.T.
• Professional Organizations
• Honor Societies
• Websites
• Community of Science http//www.cos.com/
• Graduate Student Services http//gradschool.utk.ed
  u/gradfund.shtml

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Questions?