Featured Resources
Toolkit:A guide to starting and running an AuthorAID journal club
In this guide, we outline the steps to starting and running your own AuthorAID journal club and share learning from our existing journal clubs.
Toolkit:AuthorAID Research Writing Toolkit
Resources to run a participatory research writing workshop at your institution.
Video:"Get Lit: The Literature Review"
Video of presentation on preparing the literature review section of a thesis or dissertation. One of the most popular videos on our online research writing courses
Toolkit:Gender Mainstreaming in Higher Education Toolkit
This toolkit has been developed for facilitators who are interested in introducing gender mainstreaming in higher education in order to challenge gender inequality.
Toolkit:AuthorAID Training of Trainers toolkit
Resources to run a training of trainers in research writing workshop at your institution.
Resource Library
Web resource:SciRev
SciRev aims to help science by making the peer review process more efficient.
Web resource:"How to Find an Academic Mentor"
Advice for finding and evaluating potential mentors. Includes sets of questions to consider.
Web resource:"Fake Metrics and How to Spot Them"
Five steps for helping to determine whether an alleged metric stated for journals is real.
Presentation:Writing Abstracts
Presentation on writing abstracts of journal articles, presentations, and proposals.
Mentoring learning agreement
Mentoring learning agreement document for mentors and mentees
Article:Making research connections with social media: advice for researchers
In a resource based on workshop sessions delivered to journal editors and medical researchers in Sri Lanka in March 2015, Siân Harris shares some insights and guidelines on using social media to promote research
Presentation:Avoiding Plagiarism: A Few Thoughts and Resources
Presentation to writing club, University of Colombo Faculty of Medicine.
Presentation:Effective Mentorship in Research Communication: A Case-Based Workshop
From a workshop at the University of Colombo Faculty of Medicine.
Resource of the Week Posts #174–183 (Chinese Translation)
Chinese translations of AuthorAID Resource of the Week blog posts originally published during 9 August 2014 through 12 October 2014.
Insider’s Guide to Peer Review for Applicants
Grant-application advice from peer reviewers.