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 reviews
Web tools for researchers
Advanced EndNote
Advanced RefWorks

You can also Train Yourself using our online training resources.

For Staff & PhD students

These workshops can be booked via the Leicester Learning Institute:

Google tools for researchers
Cleaning messy data with OpenRefine
The basics of research evaluation
Introduction to database design
Visualising your data
Using Microsoft Access
Creating an online exhibition using Omeka.net

Remember, if you cannot attend any of the workshops then you can book a 1to1 appointment in person or via Skype by emailing 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...

Research as comics - Applied Comics Network

On Saturday 9th May I attended the first Applied Comics Network event to talk about the PhD sessions I offer on 'Communicating your research as a comic strip'. The event was looking at the use of comics for informational and educational purposes. Attendees included academics, PhD students, graphic facilitators and comic creators. Applied Comics Network is run by Lydia Wysocki ( Newcastle Science Comic , Applied Comics Etc ), John Swogger (Archaeology in the Caribbean, Something Different About Dad), and Ian Horton (Coordinator for Contextual and Theoretical Studies, London College of Communication). They started the event off (before & after the interruption of a fire alarm!) by looking at the different types of comics the network might cover. They had all come up with different categories but they included: Instructional (instructions for using/doing things) Informative (providing facts/information) Educational (these might be factual or have a narrative to ...

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