The Health Sciences Library has many resources to support your writing and scholarly communication, defined by The Association of College and Research Libraries as "the system through which research and other scholarly writings are created, evaluated for quality, disseminated to the scholarly community, and preserved for future use" (ACRL, 2003). This content includes formal publications like books and journal articles, theses, and grant proposals, as well conference presentations and posters. This guide will introduce you to resources on pertinent topics such as:

• citation diversity
• choosing a journal
• copyright
• NIH Public Access Policy
• open access publishing
• open educational resources
• ORCID
• posters
• preprints
• repositories, including Libra, UVA's repository

Please Ask Us if you have questions or if there are other topics you would like us to address.

For Authors: Detection of Potential Plagiarism

UVA's Office of the Vice President for Research has provided access for faculty and graduate students to iThenticate. iThenticate is a platform designed to detect potential plagiarism and can help authors detect un-cited or improperly cited material in manuscripts, grant proposals, and other written documents so that you can correct the text before being submitted. It can also assist graduate students from inadvertently including previously published work in their theses or dissertations without proper citation, paraphrasing, or quoting.

To request an account:

• Faculty: visit the OVPR iThenticate guide here to request an account
• Graduate students and non-faculty researchers: each UVA department should have a primary point of contact who can run an article through iThenticate. If you do not know your department iThenticate contact, please email the Director of Research Integrity and Ethics with your name, school, and department for assistance.