PhD Library inductions and workshops

Dr William Farrell, Dr Ian Rowlands & Selina Lock

Welcome to all our new PhD students and welcome to a new academic year for our existing students.

Inductions & Introductions to...

The Library Research Services Team will be on hand at the following events for a chat and to answer questions:

College Induction Events

Friday 9^th Oct - College of Arts, Humanities and Social Science

Wednesday 14^th Oct – College of Medicine, Biological Sciences and Psychology

Wednesday 21^st Oct – College of Science and Engineering

Introduction to...

We are also running our own Introduction to... events:

Wed 28^th Oct – 11am – Introduction to the Library

Wed 28^th Oct - 2pm – Introduction to Research Data Management

Thurs 29^th Oct – 11am – Introduction to Reference Management

Thurs 29^th Oct - 2pm – Introduction to the Library

Fri 30^th Oct – 11am – Introduction to Reference Management

Fri 30^th Oct - 2pm – Introduction to Research Data Management

To book on to the Introduction to... sessions please go to PROSE
Once you have logged in to PROSE, search by key term ‘Introduction’.

Autumn Term Workshops

All our of Autumn workshops are now available to book via PROSE.

Including ones on literature searching, making research information come to you, EndNote, RefWorks, Google tools, finding grey literature, systematic reviews, database design, using Microsoft Access, cleaning messy data, creating online exhibitions and Advanced EndNote/RefWorks.

The session descriptions also link to online versions of the sessions (where available) for those researchers based off-campus.

Remember, if you need 1to1 help then just email us on librarians@le.ac.uk

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 Fi...

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...

How to find a Journal Impact Factor

What is a Journal Impact Factor? An impact factor is a measurement provided by Thomson Reuters looking at the average number of citations articles in a particular journal receives. It is calculated by: The number of times that all items published in a journal in the previous two years (e.g. 2012 & 2013) were cited by indexed publications during the year of interest (e.g. 2014) divided by The total number of "citable items" published by that journal in those two years (e.g. 2012 & 2013) Finding a Journal Impact Factor Go to Web of Science In Web of Science - Click on the link at the top of the page for Journal Citation Reports. Start typing the name of the journal and choose from the list that appears: Remember - not all journals are indexed by the Journal Citation Reports, so not all journals have an impact factor. You will then get an option to click on the Journal Profile, which includes the Impact Factor: Find th...

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