Information for researchers

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Content

Archiving of research materials | Communication and marketing | Data management| Data protection and personal data | Doctoral education | Ethical questions | Funding and finances | Geographical IT | Information retrieval | Infrastructure | Language support | Legal questions | Patents and commercialisation of research results | Publishing | Research careers | Researcher mobility | Social life / Cultural exchange | Statistics support

Archiving of research materials

• Manual for managing research material, with quick reference guides and more.
• Records and archives management

Communication and marketing

• Brand guidelines
• Material & templates
• Press and media
• Publication analyses and visualisations

Data management (Research data and data from environmental assessment)

• Data management support for research and environmental assessment. SLU has a support service that assists staff with issues relating to the management of research and environmental assessment data.
• SLU's data management policy
• Bioinformatics: SLU Bioinformatics Infrastructure

Data protection and personal data

• Read about data protection at SLU and the requirements for processing personal data.

Doctoral education

• Doctoral education at SLU : doctoral degree outcomes, rules, regulations, guidelines and contact persons. 

Ethical questions

• Animal experimentation at SLU In Swedish only
• Scientific misconduct and plagiarism 
• Ethical review: humans (Swedish Ethical Review Authority)  

Funding and finances

• Current calls for research funding (internal and external)
• Financial administration at SLU
• Research funding; Calls for proposals, consulting, general assistance with applications and contracts, etc
• Status reports on project finances

Geographical IT

• Consultations, software assistance, courses etc: GIS support  

Information retrieval

• Courses and seminars on information retrieval, competitive intelligence, etc.:SLU University Library 

Infrastructure

• Research infrastructure and e-infrastructure for research (information) 
• List of research infrastructure/facilities available at SLU 

Language support

• Find the SLU language policy and many useful tips and tools for writers on the language pages. 

Legal questions

• Advice and support for contract management
• Board for Good Research Practice

Patents and commercialisation of research results

• Free assistance with questions related to cooperation with industry, patents, contracts, business law and financing:  SLU Holding 

Publishing

The scientific publication process, open access, parallel publication, bibliometrics:

• Register and publish in the SLU publication database, SLUpub
• Find publications from SLU
• Publication analyses and visualisations
• Publish data in the SND repository and Researchdata.se
• Publishing research software openly: Advice and best practices
• Publishing policy and guidelines 

Research careers

• SLU’s career ladder, guidelines for admission of docent (reader/associate professor) and advancement.: Academic career (in Swedish) 

Researcher mobility

•  The research fellowship programme Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
• Staff exchange as part of the programmes Erasmus and NordPlus 

Social life / Cultural exchange

Uppsala:

• Families for International Friendship. FIF is a voluntary, non-political organisation which arranges contacts between guest researchers at Uppsala University/SLU and the residents of Uppsala.

Statistics support

• Guidance in statistical and mathematical issues is provided for SLU employees by the Centre for Statistics.