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The Library is committed to helping research students and staff develop their research skills and knowledge. We aim to support you along your journey whether you are a postgraduate research student, early career researcher or an experienced researcher who has developed your skills over many years.

The Library supports the Open Access agenda and provides guidance on how to publish your work Open Access. We also help you to deposit your research outputs in Hope's Institutional Research Archive, HIRA.

The Library also contributes to the PGR skills programme and provides training sessions and support materials, as well as one to one support.

Skills programme

The library provides support in several areas of the university's Postgraduate Researcher (PGR) skills framework, including Information Seeking, Information Literacy and Management, Intellectual Property Rights & Copyright, and Research Methods.

The Research and PGR section of the Library Moodle contains notes and presentations from a series of training sessions that form part of the skills programme. Training sessions are provided on topics such as open access publishing, research data, electronic thesis submission, copyright and your thesis, and Zotero reference management software.