Online resources

Completion of MRE online resources counts towards Postgraduate Researcher training hours. Add details to your eProg record following our MRE_eProg_guide.pdf.

Editing a journal

Being a journal editor can be hard work, enjoyable, frustrating, fascinating, aggravating and enlightening. Giving you an overview of the role of an editor, this guide highlights how the role fits into the journal publishing process. You'll learn the benefits of being an editor, as well as some of the challenges and decisions you may face.

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How to get published in academic journals

There are many reasons to write up your research and disseminate it to the scholarly community and the wider public. This resource focuses on journal publications, providing tips on how to get your articles accepted, and highlighting what to expect during the editorial process.

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Managing Your Research Profiles: ORCID, Scopus, Web of Science & Pure

Your researcher profiles play an important role in how your work is discovered, credited, and understood, by other researchers, potential collaborators, funders, and institutions

As a researcher, you may have profiles in several systems, such as Pure, ORCID, Scopus, and Web of Science. These profiles are often created automatically and can contain gaps or inconsistencies if they are not reviewed.

This short online resource will guide you through checking and connecting your key researcher profiles, helping you ensure your research outputs are accurately attributed and recorded. It focuses on simple, practical steps that take only a few minutes to complete, but can save time and confusion later in your research career.

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Mindfulness for Postgraduate Researchers

Being a postgraduate researcher can be challenging. As a researcher you'll have to manage shifting and competing deadlines and workloads that can occasionally make you feel lost or overwhelmed. This guide introduces you to some mindfulness techniques to support you.

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Outputs from the Open Research Fellowship programme and Accelerator Fund

The guides in these pages have been developed by Accelerator Fund recipients and Open Research Fellows as part of their projects in collaboration with the Office for Open Research and the University of Manchester Library, supporting our priority areas for open research training and skills development. We'll be adding each resource to this guide as project outputs are developed.

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Peer review

Peer review is one of the cornerstones of scholarly publishing. It's a system for evaluating the quality, relevance and validity of research. Reviews should provide constructive criticism for authors to help them improve their work, as well as helping editors assess a paper’s suitability for publication.

This guide focusses on peer review and journals, introducing you to the principles of peer review and different practices employed by journals. It will provide you with useful tips and guidance on how to write an effective review for both the author and the journal editor.

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Raising awareness of your research

Promoting our research is very important. Even the most valuable pieces of academic work can become lost in the vast number of papers that are published each year. This guide shows you steps you can take to maximise the profile and reach of your work and to ensure it's correctly attributed to you.

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Research Data Explained

All research relies on data to support arguments and prove hypotheses, so managing your research data effectively is crucial.

This resource introduces you to what research data is, how it's defined, and how it differs from other types of information.

Completing this guide will help you understand the characteristics of data in various disciplines, distinguish between different types of research data, and recognise the importance of managing research data.

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Research Data Management

All research relies on data to support arguments and prove hypotheses, so managing your research data effectively is crucial.

This resource introduces you to what research data is, how it's defined, and how it differs from other types of information.

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Sharing outputs throughout the research lifecycle

Discover how to share research outputs at different stages of the research lifecycle using tools you can trust. This interactive guide highlights platforms that the Office for Open Research provides institutional access to or recommends, supporting you to share your research openly, safely and with confidence.

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Start to finish: Personal data

Learn how to collect, store, protect, and share personal data in your research through this collection of guides. The guides are broken into four key areas: data protection, data security, ethics, and the anonymisation and pseudonymisation of research data so it can be shared for future use.

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Using citation analysis to measure impact

You've spent a lot of time making sure your research is cutting edge and packed full of insight and new discoveries. Now you want to get an impression of the influence it's having.

This interactive guide introduces citation analysis. Looking at what a citation is, we explore why it's not always true that the more citations a publication receives, the more influential it is.

You’ll see how average levels of citation are different in different academic disciplines, and how percentiles can be used to assess the citation impact of a publication.

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MRE Blog

Keep up to date with the My Research Essentials by subscribing to our blog where you will receive topical posts, interviews and hints and tips to help with your research.

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