Research Support Program

The IHU Library research support program aims to support students' and academics' research and publication processes. The program includes undergraduate and graduate students and academicians. The RSP program is carried out through on-site and distance-applied research and educational activities.

• You can request RSP support by filling out the Research Support Program Request Form.
• You can send questions on this subject through the Ask a Librarian option.
• You can contact library@ihu.edu.tr to request information via e-mail.

The library helps to follow up on resources on specific topics, find rare resources and provide the necessary support for the preparation of research. We offer opportunities to users to collaborate on research and training needs, and we prioritize requests in this regard.

Education and Research Support

• Discovery tool usage and access to information off-campus.
• Access to course materials and special reading resources.
• Benefiting from library resources and services and developing research skills.
• Consulting on research methods and techniques.
• Use of bibliography management systems.
• Determination of research topic and effective article preparation techniques.
• The journal selection process for publication.
• Optimum dissemination, distribution, and citation of research results.
• Usage of plagiarism systems.

Creating an Academic Profile

Support is provided to increase academic and institutional visibility, make publications easier to reach researchers, and create an academic profile for citation analysis:

• Web of Science
• Scopus
• TR-Dizin
• ORCID
• Google Scholar
• SOBİAD

Research Impact Metrics

Bibliometrics are based on the number of times cited journal articles, books, book chapters, conference papers, and sometimes patents. We can assist you to reach citation reports so you to see your publications' bibliometric analysis and the research trends in your field using online analysis tools such as Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, and SOBİAD.

Contact library@ihu.edu.tr for questions, consultations, or to schedule an appointment.

Document Delivery (ILL)

You can make a request to borrow the resources not available at the IHU Library. In order to borrow at other university libraries, you can make a request in the My Library section to obtain books, journal articles, and other types of documents that are not owned in our collection. For more information: Document Delivery (ILL) 

Academic Incentive Application

The academic incentive application includes rewarding the members of IHU (academics, visiting academicians, students, and administrative staff) in order to encourage the publication of their academic studies in national and international refereed journals and books. Within the scope of this directive, you can request support in all matters, such as publishing and conducting the application process. For application and detailed information, you can check our Academic Incentive Application page.

• Elicit - The AI Research Assistant: Its extended language models help it search the literature quickly. It uncovers searches across 125 million academic articles in the Semantic Scholar corpus, spanning all academic disciplines. When you extract data from articles in Elicit, the full text will appear if available, or the abstract if not.
• Semantic Scholar: It is an AI-powered discovery tool that helps researchers discover relevant scientific literature.

Research Tools

Online tools that can contribute to research:

• Scholarly: The academic paper summarizer is designed to identify important terms, claims, and findings.
  
• Zotero: It is an open-source and free bibliography management software used as a browser plug-in to collect and manage research and citation sources.
• Paper Digest: It is a platform to follow, search, review and rewrite scientific literature without hallucination.
  
• Open Knowledge Maps: Open Knowledge Maps is an AI-based search engine that enables researchers, students, and practitioners to quickly identify relevant resources.
• Jamovi: It is a free, open-source computer program for performing data analysis and statistical tests.
• JASP:  It is a free and open-source program for statistical analysis supported by the University of Amsterdam.
• Voyant Tools: It is an open-source, web-based application for performing text analysis.
• DataCite Commons: It contains metadata linking research outputs and sources, from samples to image data to preprints.
• Fatcat: Fatcat is a versioned, publicly-editable catalog of research publications: journal articles, conference proceedings, pre-prints, blog posts, etc. 
• Connected Papers: It is a unique, visual tool to help researchers and applied scientists find and explore papers relevant to their field of work.
• Inciteful: The database covers most academic articles and books in peer-reviewed journals and creates link graphs between studies.
• Litmaps: It creates a link map for the most relevant articles through citations and references to the articles.
• Local Citation Network: It uses OpenAlex (OA), Semantic Scholar (S2), OpenCitations (OC) and Crossref (CR) metadata. In this regard, academic articles create a citation network (graph) by quoting each other.

Collection Development

We need your support for the development, diversity, and updating of library collections. If you need, you can make orders for the publications that are not in our library via the Publication Order Form. We provide the requested resources as soon as possible and inform the requester.

Library Orientation

Within the scope of this service, general information about the resources and services of the Ibn Haldun University Library is presented. IHU members and guest users can benefit from this event upon request.