WRHA Virtual Library: Research and Publication Toolkit

• Handbook of Theory and Methods in Applied Health Research: Questions, Methods and Choices (2020)
• Introduction to Nursing Research: Incorporating Evidence-Based Practice (2020,5e)
• Introduction to Health Research Methods: A Practical Guide (2021,3e)
• Qualitative Research in Health Care (2020, 4e)
• Essentials of Public Health Research Methods (2021)
• Indigenous Methodologies : Characteristics, Conversations and Contexts (2021,2e)

• Designing Clinical Research (2023,5e)
• Essential Concepts in Clinical Research (2019,2e)
• Clinical Trials (2020,2e)
• Trials journal
• International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP)

• Systematic reviews to answer health care questions (2025,2e)
• Literature Review and Synthesis : A Guide for Nurses and Other Healthcare Professionals (2023)
• Qualitative Metasynthesis: a research method for medicine and health sciences (2019)
• Cochrane Handbooks
• PROSPERO: International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews

The WRHA Virtual Library offers a systematic and scoping review service.

• Writing Winning Proposals for Nurses and Health Care Professionals (2016)
• Intervention Research and Evidence-Based Quality Improvement: designing, conducting, analyzing, and funding (2019,2e)
• Research Funding and Awards (Government of Canada)
• Grant Writing Learning Corner

• Cambridge Handbook of Health Research Regulation (2021)
• Research Ethics Review journal
• WRHA Research Ethics
• Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans

• Biostatistics Manual for Health Research: A Practical Guide to Data Analysis (2023)
• Research Design and Analysis: a primer for the non-statistician (2019)
• Introduction to Information Visualization (2019)
• University of Manitoba: Data Visualization Guide 

• The Data Book: collection and management of research data (2017)
• Curating Research Data: a handbook of current practice (2017)
• Guide to Preparing a Data Management Plan
• WRHAVL Research Data Management Guide

The WRHA Virtual Library offers several research-related services.

• Publishing Your Medical Research (2017,2e)
• Writing for Publication in Nursing (2024,5e)
• Anatomy of Writing for Publication for Nurses (2021,4e)
• How to write and publish a paper

• WRHAVL Webinar: Where Do I Publish?
• Edanz Journal Selector
• Journal/Author Name Estimator (Jane)
• A number of publishers offer their own journal selector tools, including Elsevier, Wiley, and SpringerNature.
• WRHAVL Webinar: Predatory Publishers

• Revised Guide to Copyright for Canadian Hospitals (2021)
• WRHAVL Copyright Guide
• WRHAVL Guide to Open Access
• Open Policy Finder

• Making Research Matter: steps to impact for health and care researchers (2021)
• Research Impact Canada
• WRHAVL Webinar: The Impact of Impact Factors
• WRHAVL Webinar: Creating an ORCID