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Celebrate Asian Heritage Month

View Asian heritage resources from the Royal Roads University Library collection and sources across the web.

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Celebrate Earth Day

View Earth day resources from the Royal Roads University Library collection and sources across the web.

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Human Rights: Accessibility, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

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Publishing open access? RRU Library is pleased to share this tool that allows RRU-affiliated researchers to find journals with reduced or zero costs.

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Course clearances for instructors

Navigate copyright requirements related to the use of resources in online and campus classrooms.

Copyright Instructor resources

Knowledge mobilization

Sharing your research helps you increase your impact, make connections, and build a reputation in your area. Learn about techniques for disseminating your work.

Scholarly communications

Sentences and style

Understand sentence structure, which is essential to successful writing.

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Research data management

Understand what RDM is, why it's important to your research process, and how RRU Library can support you.

Conducting primary research

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Zotero

This free, open-source citation manager helps you collect, keep track of, and cite the sources you reference in your academic writing.

Get started with research

Learn how to use the library resources to get started with your research.

Business research guides

Learn about conducting market and industry research, creating business and marketing plans, and more.

Copyright information for theses & dissertations

Navigate copyright requirements related to publishing your thesis or dissertation.

Creating stable links to Library resources

Find instructions for creating stable links to licensed resources to share with other members of the RRU community.

Land acknowledgment

The Royal Roads campus is located on the traditional Lands of the Lekwungen-speaking Peoples, the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations.

With gratitude, we live, work and learn here where the past, present and future of Indigenous and non-Indigenous students, faculty and staff come together.