USpace Workspaces
Connecting members of the University of Utah community to services and resources that span the knowledge creation cycle.
Located in Marriott Library on Level 2, the Knowledge Commons is Marriott Library’s main service desk for research and technology assistance, reserving group study rooms, with printing, scanning, and software support, as well as help with configuring laptops and mobile devices. Equipment and devices are also available for checkout.
Marriott Library Faculty Librarians are available for research consultations and reference assistance in-person, by phone, online, and by appointment. Visit our Marriott Library Online One-Stop Canvas Course for information and access to library resources, services and course materials for faculty, graduate students and undergraduate students. Marriott Library librarians can assist with literature reviews, database searches, and environmental scans of discipline-based literature. Additionally, librarians provide training and support for using bibliographic and citation management tools, patent and trademark searching support, course-integrated instruction, library and discipline-based research skills, 21st century literacies including information literacy, and can assist with creating customized online learning tools.
The Office of Research Education offers a variety of classes for University of Utah students, faculty and staff related to grant-writing and other research-related topics through the Research Education (Red) program. Grant training at the University of Utah is available via a customized series of training modules where you will learn more about funding and grant writing, and the opportunities for funding at the University of Utah.
Pre-Publishing Support Services: Writing, Editing, & Copy-Editing Resources
- Academic Advising
- Office of Sponsored Projects Copy-Editing Services
- Graduate School’s Professional Development Resources
- Graduate Student Writing Center
- Grant writing
- Research Skills for Developing Writers
- Undergraduate Student Writing Center
Information, resources, and support
- University of Utah Regulations Library: Policy 7-003: Ownership of Copyrightable Works and Related Works
- How to negotiate a Publishing Contract
- Office of the Vice President for Research Federal Funding Updates
- 2022 OSTP Issues Guidance Making Federally Funded Research Publicly Available
- White House FAQ’s 2022 Public Access Policy
- 2024 Updated Report to the U.S. Congress on Financing Mechanisms for Open Access Publishing of Federally Funded Research
- More About OSTP’s 2022 Guidance
- OSTP 2013 and 2022 Public Access Guidance Memorandums, a Comparison
- SPARC editorial statement on OSTP's 2022 Guidance
- SPARC publication sharing policy resource
- SPARC NIH Public Access Policy Overview
- Recording of SPARC webcast on "Who Owns Scholarly Work? Copyright and Open Access"
- Federal Register of Public Access Plans
- By Agency: For a complete list of public access plans, search the Federal Register
- ACL / Administration for Community Living
- ACRL / Association of College & Research Libraries
- AHRQ / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- ARL / Association of Research Libraries
- CDC / Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- CMS / Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
- DOD / Department of Defense
- DOT / Department of Transportation
- EPA / Environmental Protection Agency
- FDA
- Federal Register
- GAO / US Accountability Office
- HHS / US Department of Health and Human Services
- Homeland Security
- ICPSR / Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
- IES / Institute of Education Sciences
- IMLS / Institute of Museum and Library Services
- MLA / Medical Library Association
- NASA / National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NEH / National Endowment for the Humanities
- NIH / National Institute of Health
- NIH Compliance Checklist
- NIH Policy Page
- NIH FAQs
- NISO / National Information Standards Organization
- NSF / National Science Foundation
- Navy, U.S.
- Open.gov / National Archives
- OSTI / Office of Scientific and Technical Information
- Smithsonian Institute
- Social Security Administration
- US Navy
- USDA / National Agricultural Library
- USGS / U.S. Geological Survey
- VA / Veteran’s Affairs