This is open course material for Research Information Retrieval and Management course. University of Eastern Finland (UEF) Library provides this course for UEF doctoral students as a part of UEF Doctoral School studies. The course and its material consists of five modules: 1) the basics of information retrieval, 2) discipline-specific information retrieval, 3) reference management, 4) publishing and researcher visibility, 5) assessment of research impact and bibliometrics. Study material is freely available online for everyone on Wordpress website.