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In this guide, we outline the steps to starting and running your own AuthorAID journal club and share learning from our existing journal clubs.

Resources to run a participatory research writing workshop at your institution.

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

This toolkit has been developed for facilitators who are interested in introducing gender mainstreaming in higher education in order to challenge gender inequality.

Resources to run a training of trainers in research writing workshop at your institution.

A lecture from a graduate course on scientific ethics. Focuses mainly on ethical standards for writing and publishing journal articles. Introduces basic principles of ethics, notes ethical norms and issues in research publication, and lists sources of further information.

Module by Miguel Roig, PhD, professor of psychology, St. John's University. Funded and posted by the (US) Office of Research Integrity. Available in both HTML and PDF. Includes examples of adequate and inadequate paraphrasing.

Lecture from a writing-intensive undergraduate course (Biology of Mammalian Cells and Tissues) at Texas A&M University. Introduces basic principles. Suitable overall for students in a variety of fields.

From the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Discusses not only authorship disputes but also other aspects of authorship. Includes advice on preventing authorship problems, suggestions of what to do if such problems occur, definitions of important terms relating to authorship, and discussion of the concepts represented by these terms. Suitable not only for new researchers but also for more advanced ones.

By Tom Lang.

By Tom Lang. From the series "Common Statistical Errors Even YOU Can Find", published in the AMWA [American Medical Writers Association] Journal.

By Tom Lang.

Easy-to-understand textbook of basic (and not-so-basic) statistics. By T D V Swinscow; revised by M J Campbell. Openly accessible. Has a medical emphasis but also is applicable to other fields. Although more recent editions can be bought, still suffices for many uses.

Annotated bibliography of print resources. About 5 pages long. Used by the World Health Organization (WHO). Includes many classic works. Newer editions of some listed works might be available.

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Featured Resources

Toolkit:A guide to starting and running an AuthorAID journal club

Toolkit:AuthorAID Research Writing Toolkit

Video:"Get Lit: The Literature Review"

Toolkit:Gender Mainstreaming in Higher Education Toolkit

Toolkit:AuthorAID Training of Trainers toolkit

Resource Library

Presentation:Ethics of Scientific Publication: An Introduction

Web resource:"Avoiding Plagiarism, Self-Plagiarism, and Other Questionable Writing Practices: A Guide to Ethical Writing"

Presentation:Scientific Writing: 10 Basics

Article:"How to Handle Authorship Disputes: A Guide for New Researchers"

Article:"Errors in Correlation and Regression Analyses"

Article:"Errors in Descriptive Statistics and in Interpreting Probability Values"

Article:"Errors in Multivariate Analyses and in Interpreting Differences between Groups"

Article:"Errors in Data Displays"

Presentation:Statistics at Square One, 9th edition

"Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Communicable Disease Control: Selected readings and references"