This practical guide addresses the challenges for building and maintaining a college research program in an environment that does not focus on supporting research activity and for those with a heavy teaching load. The challenges faced by teacherresearchers and solutions to issues are reviewed. The steps for maximizing research productivity are outlined time management obtaining research space and equipment and funding recruiting and managing human subjects and overcoming bureaucratic stumbling blocks. Chapters feature opening vignettes examples cases figures tables summaries suggested readings and research references which provide a scientific grounding. Highlights include coverage ofThe latest time saving digital resources including automatic literature search alerts Zotero for managing literature Dropbox for sharing files Open Science for managing workflow and OpenSesame and OpenStax Tutor.Strategies for recruiting subjects such as flyers and posting lab meeting minutes on a web page. How to increase research productivity while still engaging in effective teaching.The problems of the availability of human subjects and strategies for recruiting from classes offering extra credit for research participation and participation as a course requirement. Using students as volunteer research assistants and strategies for recruiting and managing volunteers along with ethical considerations. Bureaucratic stumbling blocks and strategies for overcoming those challenges. How to use browserword processor addons that store and organize literature in a searchable library and produce citations and reference lists. The use of free open source software to design experiments and collect data and free cloud based resources to store electronic research files. The steps for maximizing research productivity are outlined in chapter 1 time management obtaining research space and equipment and funding recruiting and managing human subjects and overcoming bureaucratic stumbling blocks along