1. OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS FOR RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION SUPPORT

• MU Science News
• Science Publications and Methodology Documents
• MU Research and Project Support
  
• Evaluation of Science and Research
  • Frascati Manual (OECD, 2015): Guidelines for Collecting and Reporting Data on Research and Experimental Development
• MU Research Ethics
  
• List of renowned publishers for scientific and professional literature
• Checking Predatory Journals (University Campus Library)
• Think.Check.Submit. (search support for trusted journals and publishers)
  

2. BIBLIOGRAPHIC AND CITATION DATABASES, DIGITAL AND CLASSIC LIBRARIES

• Web of Science (EIZ MUNI)
• Scopus (EIZ MUNI)
• Google Scholar
• JSTOR
• EBSCO Information Services
• MU Central Library
• MU Portal of electronic information resources
• Moravian Library
• National Library of the Czech Republic
• Manuscriptorium (Digital Library of Written Cultural Heritage)

3. FIELD-FOCUSED JOURNALS

• List of selected field-focused impact journals
• Scimago Journal & Country Rank (searching for scientific indicators of journals from information in the Scopus database)
• Open Access:
  • Directory of Open Access Journals
  • Elsevier Open Access Journal Search (Scopus)
  • Open Policy Finder (Jisc)

4. SCIENTIFIC PLATFORMS, CITATION MANAGERS, SOCIAL NETWORKS

• AI tools* (searching scientific literature, literature reviews, comparative and citation tools, LLM assistants):
  • SciSpace
  • Elicit
  • Scite
  • Consensus
  • ResearchRabbit
  • Semantic Scholar
  • Google Scholar
• Citation managers (bibliography management, citation generators, citation standards formatting, annotations):
  • Zotero
  • Mendeley
  • EndNote
• Social networks**:
  • ResearchGate
  • Academia.edu
  • X (ex Twitter)
  • LinkedIn
  • (Google Scholar)
• Research identifiers:
  • ORCID
  • Scopus Author Identifier (Elsevier)
  • ResearcherID (Web of Science)

* The use of AI tools falls into a legally and ethically problematic area. The user is responsible for any incorrect, unethical or illegal treatment! For more information, see Statement on the Application of Artificial Intelligence in Teaching at MU, or EU AI Act.

** The use of social networks, their settings, protection of privacy, and ethics is the responsibility of the users. It is especially recommended to carefully check the credibility of the content, the authors of the contributions, and to comply with copyright and licenses for the use and sharing of research outcomes.

5. CITATION, CITATION STANDARDS, PLAGIARISM

• ČSN ISO 690
  
• APA (7. edition): APA guidelines (SAGE Publications)
• How to avoid plagiarism?
  • Turnitin - an online tool for checking texts, detecting plagiarism and texts created by artificial intelligence.