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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 20...

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...

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

Last week's Thesis Forum on the probation review was a great success. We had a full house to hear Katie Bridger, Megan de Ste Croix and Deirdre O’Sullivan share their advice and experience.   The recording of the forum is now available to watch online: https://connect.le.ac.uk/p1o9d2igwu7/ Katie Bridger (2nd year PhD History) emphasised that there was no need panic, as long as you were prepared. Understand exactly what your department wants from you and plan accordingly. Katie showed us how she structured the repor t, and how to compile the information that went into it.  Megan de Ste Croix ( 3rd Year PhD Genetics) recommended booking your panel early, in case they get too busy. Bring your own copy of the report : i f the panel make useful comments you c an write them next to the relevant section. Focus on the literature review and have a detailed methods section. Deirdre O’Sullivan (Lecturer i n Archaeology) gave us the perspective ...

If you are off-campus or can't make it to our training workshops then have a look at our online training resources:   Literature Search Plan your literature search Conduct your literature search Discover how you can use Scopus, Web of Science & Google Scholar to carry out citation searches and set up citation alerts: Who is citing who? And who is citing you? [Video, 18 minutes] How can we help with your systematic review? [Video, 21 minutes] Reading list of systematic review resources Critical Appraisal - a reading list of critical appraisal resources Keep up to date Make research information come to you References Which reference manager is right for you? Introduction to reference management [Video, 4 minutes] RefWorks (online bibliographic software) Get started with RefWorks [PDF] RefWorks tutorials [Videos] Advanced RefWorks [PDF] EndNote (desktop bibliographic software) Get started with EndNote [PDF] EndNote tutorials [Videos] ...