Other Resources to Support Student Research

MSU and the College of Human Medicine offer a variety of support for student research activities.  Please see the below list for some of those resources:

 

  1. Project development. Can support students in various project tasks, including literature searching, developing a research question, protocol writing, IRB applications, preparing posters/presentations and writing manuscripts.  Contact CHM.Research@msu.edu for help with project development.   
  2. Publication funding assistance. The MSU Library has entered into agreements to offer free or discounted publishing in several Open Access journals. See this page for more info: https://lib.msu.edu/about/collections/scholcomm/support/.   MSU also has an institutional fellowship with BMJ Case Reports for publication for free: https://lib.msu.edu/medicalwriting_publishing/
  3. MSU Librarian. The MSU-CHM librarian is Iris Kovar-Gough and she can support you in various ways, including help with literature searching and use of library resources. See here for more info:  https://libguides.lib.msu.edu/prf.php?account_id=26294
  4. Citation Management Software. The MSU Library offers several citation management software options, including EndNote Web, Mendeley, and Zotero. https://libguides.lib.msu.edu/health-sci-research-skills/write-and-cite
  5. Covidence for Systematic Reviews - Free Covidence account through MSU Libraries. https://libguides.lib.msu.edu/covidence
  6. Qualtrics survey platform - MSU has a license for the full Qualtrics survey suite.  Log in here to begin using: https://qualtrics.msu.edu/ 
  7. Research travel and research enhancement funding - see this page: https://research.chm.msu.edu/students-residents/chm-msu-funding-request-procedures
  8. Research Office Scholarships - awarded in the Spring of each year. Check page in late Fall/early Spring: https://research.chm.msu.edu/students-residents/2024-msu-chm-office-of-research-research-scholarships
  9. REDCap - the MSU Biomedical Research Informatics Core (BRIC) provides access to REDCap software, a secure system for online and offline data capture for research studies, including surveys and databases.  https://ctsi.msu.edu/redcap-software