Scholarship, Research, and Innovation
Scholarship Resources
Working on articles, poster, or a paper? This page is loaded with “how to’s”, readings and guides.
Artificial Intelligence Tools
- Research Rabbit
- Visual network of papers and authors.
- Shows related research you might miss in normal searches.
- Useful for literature review.
- Short video tutorial
- Elicit
- Useful for literature review.
- Finds papers and extracts key data into tables.
- Helps to identify themes, methods, and gaps in research.
- Video Playlist tutorial
- NotebookLM
- (Innaccessible if using Virginia Tech credentials to log in)
- Upload pdfs, notes, or articles.
- Ask questions across all your sources.
- Can generate summaries, outlines, and podcasts about the research.
- Video tutorial
- Choosing a Journal for Publishing Your Health Professions Education Work
- PRiMER (Peer-Reviewed Reports in Medical Education Research) is an open-access scholarly journal of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine.
- How to Select the Right Journal Video
- JANE (Journal Author Name Estimator) Have you recently written a paper, but you’re not sure to which journal you should submit it? Or maybe you want to find relevant articles to cite in your paper? Or are you an editor, and do you need to find reviewers for a particular paper? Jane can help. Just enter the title and/or abstract of the paper in the box, and click on ‘Find journals’, ‘Find authors’ or ‘Find Articles’. Jane will then compare your document to millions of documents in Medline to find the best matching journals, authors or articles.
- Annotated Bibliography of Journals for Educational Scholarship (revised Sep 2022) [pdf]
- Learn more on the utility of University Libraries as a resource for your research [ppt, pdf]
- Accessing Online Subscription Resources Using MyAthens
OCPD Research Series
The Office of Continuing Professional Development at Carilion Clinic offers Research Series sessions that provide foundational concepts and information necessary for engaging in research. The series are geared towards those who need higher level or specialized instruction related to research. The button below will take you to the Carilion Clinic website where you will find informational resources on this series session.