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The Center for Women’s Health Research continually strives to find new ways in which we can support our researchers and their teams. In addition to our many services, wonderful work environment, and staff, we have also compiled a list of links we have found useful. We hope you find these as beneficial as we do and encourage you to forward us any resources you’d like to see posted here.

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iThenticate

  • iThenticate, a plagiarism-checking software, is available to the UNC research community for grant applications, manuscripts, and other scholarly works.

Clear Communications

  • Federal Plain Language Guidelines – The Plain Language Action and Information Network (PLAIN) is a community of federal employees dedicated to the idea that citizens deserve clear communications from government. This booklet will help you learn to recognize your audience, organize your material, write for clarity, and test your content.
  • Simply Put – This booklet from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will provide you with a basic understanding of creating a communications that are clear, visually appealing and considerate of the diverse audiences you may be attempting to reach.
  • Center for Plain Language – This blog and information site focuses on the advantages of using plain language to reach the widest possible audience. Techniques and checklists are available to help researchers maximize their understanding of this form of communication.

The Research Process

  • Research Guide – A Guide for Successful Institutional-Industrial Collaborations: This guidebook, produced by the University-Industry Demonstration Partnership (UIDP), is for the benefit of researchers from institutions such as universities, national laboratories, and other non-profit research organizations and researchers from industry who seek to gain experience working within institutional industrial research collaboration. The content contained within is intended to guide the individual researcher in understanding the unique aspects of this relationship and to increase the likelihood of more successful institutional-industrial collaborations.
  • NIH CSR Applicant Resources: The NIH’s Center for Scientific Review (CSR) develops videos, and articles, as well as publishes notices that support the scientific review process from an applicant, reviewer, or study section perspective.
  • NIH and ORWH
    • NIH Resources: The National Institutes of Health provide research-based resources as well as information on training, safety and publications.
    • ORWH Resources: The NIH’s Office of Research on Women’s Health provides several excellent resources with access to Research & Policy Reports; Scientific Career Development Resources; Continuing Medical Education and additional informational resources.