Stellenbosch University Library and Information Service contains a wealth of information that is continually developed to cater to the needs of researchers and postgraduate students during their academic careers. As part of the curriculum, postgraduate students are often required to submit a research project and for this purpose, each faculty is well represented by a Faculty Librarian, who amongst other things can provide research support and training and e-learning to students and staff.

Faculty librarians offer collaborative support to researchers by helping them with measuring research impact, advice on publishing and open access sources.

They also provide the following training to postgraduate students and researchers which specifically target the use of the library website to find, locate and apply applicable information and data sources, e.g.:

  • introduction to the relevant library guides
  • literature searches
  • literature reviews
  • systematic reviews
  • searching for information across multiple databases
  • referencing

See your faculty’s/department’s library guides here and contact your faculty librarian directly for assistance.