The Research Support Service (RSS) is a service offered at the IFM Library in order to support faculty and postgraduate students in their research activities. Research Support also gathers all published peer-reviewed research outputs (articles, books, chapters in books and conference proceedings) annually, for uploading into Institutional Repository.

In summary, Research Support can assist researchers at the Institute of Finance Management (IFM) with:

• Advice, support and facilitating the choice of research topic.
• Search Strategies for Research Literature
  • How to formulate search strategy
  • Define how to improve a search
  • Help to familiarize with advanced search techniques
  • Navigating through various scholarly databases i.e. subscribed and open access databases available at IFM Library.
• Reference Management and Citation
  • Introduction to reference management and citation
  • Installation of reference management software (Mendeley)
  • Creating your library in Mendeley software
  • Managing references through Mendeley software
  • In text citation while writing your academic works
• Installation and training on the use of Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) for data analysis.

For inquiries & one to one support do not hesitate to visit the library.