Skip to main content

Research Elevenses in July


New ‘Research Elevenses’
30 minute updates on key information issues for Leicester researchers.

There’s no need to book - just turn up! Refreshments provided too!

Or you can join in the webinar. A recording of each session will be made available after the event.


Thursday 5th July
11am, Consultation Room, Doctoral College Reading Room, 1st Floor, David Wilson Library

Funder requirements to share publications with Europe PMC

 Grant Denkinson & Tom Moore

Many funders require researchers to make their publications available via Europe Pubmed Central (Europe PMC).
This session will cover:
-          How to find out what your funder requires
-          How to either have your publisher submit your work to Europe PMC or do it yourself


Thursday 12th July
11am, Ogden Lewis Seminar Suite Room 3

Organising images with Tropy

William Farrell

Tropy is free, open-source software that allows you to organise and describe photographs of research material. We will look at how Tropy works, and the ways it could be used by researchers working with images. Tropy has been developed with humanities research in mind, but could be used by anyone taking photographs.   



Friday 20th July
11am, Consultation Room, Doctoral College Reading Room, 1st Floor, David Wilson Library

Managing and sharing your research data outputs: what do you do with your research data?

Laurian Williamson

Discover best practice in planning, managing, storing, and sharing your research data outputs. The University of Leicester will soon be launching a Figshare-powered digital data repository and this session will demonstrate how you can deposit and share your research data outputs.


Friday 27th July
11am, Consultation Room, Doctoral College Reading Room, 1st Floor, David Wilson Library

Altmetric: Want to know if your research has been blogged, tweeted etc.?

Laurian Williamson & Selina Lock

Almetrics refers to the alternative ways your research is being referred to. For example, has it been tweeted, blogged, cited in Wikipedia, picked up by news outlets or mentioned on Facebook? There are various companies and platforms ways of collating this data. This session will focus on the Altmetric platform.



Please contact Selina if you have any questions


Popular posts from this blog

You can now export multiple citations from Google Scholar

You can now export multiple citations from Google Scholar if you have a Google Account. Go to Google Scholar and sign into your Google Account. Conduct your search. Click on the Star icon (Save) under each reference you want to export. Then click on My Library in the top, right of the screen. Select all the references and click on the Export option: Click the Star/Save Icon Choose Export Option To Export into EndNote Choose the EndNote option. Open the EndNote file that is created. The references should automatically import into EndNote. To Export into RefWorks Choose the RefMan option. Save the RIS file that is created. Login to your RefWorks account. Click on the plus (+) button. Choose Import References. Add the RIS file you just saved. Set the file import option to RIS - Reference Manager. Click import and your references will be imported. --- Good Practice Tip: Always check that all the reference information you need has been

Searching ABS Journals in Business Source Premier

In Business and Management Studies, researchers undertaking a literature review sometimes search across a defined group of journals. This is a way of focusing the literature search to make the results more relevant to the questions in hand. Groups are often chosen from the Association of Business Schools (ABS)'s  Academic Journal Guide . Read more how about how they put together the guide here . There are several ways to search across ABS journals. Here is how to do it in Business Source Premier, a leading literature database for this subject area.  1.     Login into the ABS journal guide. If you have never used it before you will need to create an account. 2.     You can use the guide to draw up a group of journals either by using the Rankings information or the Fields. Fields divides up the journals into categories of research focus e.g. Accounting, Finance etc. In this example we will use the Fields. The field we are interested is ‘Operations Research and Marketin

Advanced Search Tip: Proximity (Adjacency) Searching

Proximity (Adjacency) Searching vs Phrase Searching When you're searching literature databases you might want to find a phrase. The easiest way to do this is to put the phrase in "speech marks". E.g. "heart disease" This will find that exact phrase - with the words next to each other in that order. BUT... You may be interested in variations on that phrase e.g. heart disease, disease of the heart, diseases of the heart, diseases of the human heart. In that case it might be better to use a proximity/adjacency search - this allows you to find one keyword next to another. Or one keyword within a specified number of words of the other keyword. When using a proximity search the keywords can be in any order. Different Databases Use Different Proximity Operators In Ovid Medline : heart adj disease finds the word heart next to the word disease, in that order.    (This is the same as searching for the phrase, of course) heart adj2 disease fin