A Research Handbook

Our free 450-page handbook on research: how it works, how to do it well, and how to stay constructively critical without losing the joy.

How to read it

Download the latest PDF from the GitHub Releases page:

• Latest release

Support

If you’d like to help us keep improving this handbook, thank you — it genuinely helps. Your support funds:

• ongoing editorial work (clarifications, examples, references, corrections)
• an audio version
• short video support for the more complex parts
• our wider programme of projects aimed at a more joyously critical world: practical, research-informed resources that help people think clearly, question well, and still enjoy the work.

You can support us here:

• https://buymeacoffee.com/jonlucia

Licence

• Book text and figures: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (share widely, no changes, no commercial reuse). See LICENSE.
• Code / LaTeX scripts / tooling: MIT. See LICENSE-CODE.

Contributing

We welcome material contributions, but please contact us before you start so we can coordinate scope, style, attribution, and where the material fits. See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Citation

• BibTeX: CITATION.bib
• GitHub citation metadata: CITATION.cff

Building the book from source (XeLaTeX)

This project is built with XeLaTeX.

Source

You can download the source LaTeX from /Manuscript/.

To build, we recommend latexmk:

cd Manuscript
latexmk -xelatex -interaction=nonstopmode -file-line-error MastersHandbook.tex