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:Prezi
Presentation software. An alternative to PowerPoint. Lets you zoom in and out of the images. Free licenses available. For more information, see AuthorAID Resource of the Week blog post #115.
PDF copy for reference only - Application form for 2013 travel grant (second set)
PDF copy for reference only - Application form for 2013 workshop grant (second set)
Web resource:COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers
From the Committee on Publication Ethics, March 2013.
Presentation:Core Presentations on Research Communication
Slide set containing presentations on writing journal articles, giving presentations, preparing proposals, and related topics. From the AuthorAID Workshop on Teaching Research Communication, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 27-31 May 2013.
Guidelines for AuthorAID Guest Posts
Guidance for potential authors of guest posts for the AuthorAID blog. Includes background information about the blog. Also includes guidelines for writing and submitting posts. Please note that those who might like to write blog posts for AuthorAID should first consult Barbara Gastel (bgastel@cvm.tamu.edu), who oversees the AuthorAID blog.
Global Health Internship Scheme
Costello Medical Consulting is a medical consulting company based in Cambridge (UK), and they are offering a health professional from a low- or middle-income country the opportunity to gain skills in evidence-based medicine by working with them for two-to-three months on a healthcare problem.
Presentation:Writing and Publishing Journal Articles: Ways to Decrease Stress and Increase Success
Presentation given at the Sri Lanka Medical Association, 14 March 2013. (Speaker: Barbara Gastel.) Contains 20 key points from AuthorAID workshops.
Article:The SAMPL Guidelines for Statistical Reporting
"Basic Statistical Reporting for Articles Published in Biomedical Journals: The 'Statistical Analyses and Methods in the Published Literature' or
The SAMPL Guidelines” by Thomas A. Lang and Douglas G. Altman. These statistical-reporting guidelines can help authors, editors, and peer reviewers. Most of the content is applicable not only to biomedical but also to other fields.
"Publishing in Open-Access Journals" (Chinese Translation)
Chinese translation of item posted on AuthorAID website. Contains English text followed by Chinese translation of main content. Translated by Wei LIU, an editor at the Chinese Journal of Cancer, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center.