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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.

Website of "an international initiative that seeks to improve reliability and value of medical research literature by promoting transparent and accurate reporting of research studies". (EQUATOR stands for Enhancing the QUAlity and Transparency Of health Research.) Available in English and in Spanish. Includes a library of guidelines for reporting research; resources for authors, editors, and peer reviewers; resources for developers of guidelines; and a newsletter in English, French, German, and Spanish.

Presentation about AuthorAID. From 2012 annual meeting of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Main aspects discussed: background, workshops, online resources, grants, mentoring.

Advice on writing journal articles about innovations (new ways to do things). By the editor of the journal Academic Medicine.

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.

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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

Web resource:EQUATOR Network

AuthorAID Presentation (AAAS 2012)

Article:"Toward Better Descriptions of Innovations"

SICRISA mentors

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"