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New ‘Research Elevenses’ for January

This January we are running a series of 30 minute talks on key issues for Leicester researchers. There’s no need to book - just turn up!   If you are off-campus you can join in live via Adobe Connect. A recording of each session will be made available after the event. Electronic PhD theses: our “best sellers” 12 th Jan 11am, ATT 208 Electronic theses are the most popular downloads from Leicester Research Archive (LRA) and form a huge body of knowledge which is often only available from the LRA. All doctoral theses are now submitted in electronic form and we’ve scanned older printed theses right back to the founding of the University. Apart from embargoed works, most Leicester theses are now available to the world. LRA Manager Grant Denkinson will share some highlights of our collection and his hopes for the future of open scholarship. Link to webinar : https://connect.le.ac.uk/etheses/ Open Access Countdown 19 th Jan 11am, ATT 208

PhD & Staff Workshops for Spring

The Library research Services Team will once again be providing lots of workshops and events in the Spring term: For New PhD Students Fri 15th Jan, 10am  – Introduction to Reference Management Fri 15th Jan   - 10.30am  – Introduction to Research Data Management Fri 15th Jan – 11.30am  – Introduction to the Library To book on to the Introduction to... sessions please go to PROSE Once you have logged in to PROSE, search by key term ‘Introduction’. For All PhD students All of the workshops below are now available to book via PROSE. Planning your literature search Conducting your literature search Making research information come to you EndNote RefWorks Finding grey literature Who is citing who? Copyright & your thesis Beginners Prezi PubMed vs Medline Raising your publication profile through open access Publishing in a peer-review journal Communicating your research as a comic strip Enhancing your digital profile Search strategies for systematic rev

How do you use stats in teaching?

The library would like to understand more about how statistical resources are used in teaching and research.  We are therefore inviting teaching and research staff, including PhD students, to take part in a short online survey about statistical resources.  The survey is open until Friday 18 December, and should take no more than 10 minutes to complete.   Photo by Rob Ireton (CC BY 4.0). Your respons es are important, so please do take a few minutes to send us your thoughts