Research Support
We’re here to help with your research. Ask a librarian for advice, explore our research guides, or get help with literature, systematic reviews, and more. Get help from a Librarian
Research Guides
Research guides are curated resources organized by subject, course, or general topic. If you are not sure which library resources to start with for your research, try using our Research Guides.
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Literature Reviews: A Research Guide
A literature review is an integral part of your thesis. It helps you gain a deeper understanding of your topic and helps you identify gaps in the current research.
A literature review is a critical engagement with the literature, the goal of which is to provide context for your own research question, and to identify gaps, uncertainty or disagreements related to your topic.
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Systematic Reviews
Systematic review is a methodology that prescribes explicit, reproducible, and transparent processes for collating the best available evidence in answer to specific questions. In particular, it requires the use of robust techniques for:
- searching for and identifying primary studies,
- selecting the studies to be included in the review,
- extracting the data from the studies,
- appraising the quality of these studies, and
- synthesizing the findings narratively and/or through pooling suitable quantitative data in meta-analysis.
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Consult with a Librarian
Librarians provide personalized research and learning help to all University of Calgary students. Whether you need in-depth research help, searching strategies, advice finding good-quality information online, or a friendly expert to chat with, your librarian looks forward to hearing from you.
Lab NEXT
Lab NEXT brings together library services and technologies to support and promote multidisciplinary scholarship. Bookable spaces include collaboration rooms, open collaboration space with wheeled furniture and teaching screens, high performance PCs, video creation room for easy video creation, A/V edit suites for recording audio, Mac Pros for multimedia editing, VR studio, VR cart, VR dev room, and visualization studio.
Experiential Learning
Experiential Learning is a process of learning-by-doing in which students connect classroom learning to hands-on and real world situations in activities such as work-integrated-learning, practica and internships, applied workshops and training, or research. Learn more about how LCR can support your hands on learning.
The Graduate Student Library Roadmap
Follow an interactive roadmap put together by Librarians to help you get started and use for quick reference along your graduate journey.
Graduate RoadmapFaculty of Graduate Studies
Discover grad life on campus as graduate students from across all disciplines share their views, aspirations, challenges, and successes on their path toward making the world a better place.
Faculty of Graduate Studies opens a new windowInternational Student Resources
Welcome to the University of Calgary! As international students who are getting accustomed to a new academic environment, you may find navigating the library to be daunting. Visit our LibGuide for some useful resources to help ease you into life at UCalgary.
International student LibGuide opens a new windowWellness Resources
Maintaining your physical and mental health is essential to your success as a graduate student. Get to know more important resources that you can use to ensure that you are performing at your best.
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