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We are offering lots of training workshops fro PGRs during the Autumn term, including: Introduction to the library (for those who haven't attended a library induction): 12 October, 10am - 11:30am. Library Seminar Rooms. 1st floor.   20 October, 10am - 11:30am. Library Seminar Rooms. 1st floor.  Introduction to  Research Data Management Introduction to Reference Management Planning your literature search Conducting your literature search EndNote RefWorks Making research information come to you PubMed vs Medline  Finding grey literature Tools for note taking Who is citing who? Copyright & your thesis Advanced Endnote Advanced RefWorks   These can be booked via PROSE .  If you are unable to attend our face-to-face workshops then we also have online tutorials:   Literature Search Plan your literature search Conduct your literature search Discover how you can use Scopus, Web of Science...

A new academic year begins and its time to welcome new PhD students. We hope you enjoy your time here at Leicester.  The Library is here to help throughout your research. Our homepage and search can be found here . Please visit our Getting Started pages for all you need to know about using the Library.  There are two librarians who support research students: Selina Lock for  S cience, Technology and Medicine, and William Farrell for  Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities.  We are here to help you: find information for your research plan literature searches and systematic reviews  get to grips with our resources and databases use bibliographic software to organise your references use referencing styles when writing your thesis.  The Library also provides a dedicated study space for you: the Nicholas Corah Graduate Reading  Room...

Would you self-publish your monograph? The academic  Lesley Hulonce  has caused a stir this week by arguing for exactly that. Dissatisfied with the proposed sale price of her monograph from a traditional publisher (over £60) Hulonce decided to publish the book herself  through Amazon self- publishin g. Read more about her experience  here .  Other academics have  expressed dissatisfaction with publishers; price and the quality of e-books seem to be a particular bug-bears. These are both issues that librarians sympathise with.  Some authors and imprints have been experimenting with different kinds of publishing.  Zero Books (and its offspring  Repeater Books ) have pioneered a model of quicker, easier publishing that also encourages more imaginative writing. Martin Parker , a Professor here at Leicester, publish...

RefWorks allows you to manage all the references you have used in your assignments or research. New RefWorks Users   Create and organise a library of references that you can access via the web Store and annotate the PDFs of articles Import references from bibliographic databases and other information sources Cite while you write using add-in Word/Google Docs features Automatically create bibliographies If you have never used RefWorks then see our Getting Started Online Tutorial Existing RefWorks Users Why should you upgrade to new RefWorks? New RefWorks has lots of extra features: Store, view and annotate PDFs Tag your references Quick Cite function Save to RefWorks browser button Word 2016 citation toolbar (Add-In) Google Docs citation toolbar (Add-In) When should you upgrade to new RefWorks? New RefWorks and legacy RefWorks will both be available to use during the 2016/17 academic year to allow you to upgrade to new RefWorks at a time that suits ...

Last week we shared the most downloaded PhD Theses in the Leicester Research Archive (LRA), this time we highlight the most downloaded articles of 2015/16. These publications cover a wide range of research at Leicester from Law to Engineering, Geography to Museum Studies. Many of these articles are available thanks to Green Open Access  arrangements.  Top Ten Most Downloaded Articles in 2015/16 1.      Cunningham, Sally,  Recklessness: Being Reckless and Acting Recklessly   King's College Law Journal  (2010 )         http://hdl.handle.net/2381/10894 2.      Naismith, Laura et al.,    Mobile technologies and learning     Futurelab Literature Review Series, Report No 11    http://hdl.handle.net/2381/8132 3.      Hainsworth, Sarah V. & Uhure, N.J.,   Diamond like ...