Research Elevenses

30 minute updates on key information issues for Leicester researchers

Library Research Services are running a series of 30 minute talks on key issues for Leicester researchers. There’s no need to book - just turn up! Refreshments provided too!

If you are off-campus you can join in the webinar. A recording of each session will be made available after the event.

Satisfying Your Funder’s Open Access Requirements

Wednesday 24^th January

11am, Consultation Room, Doctoral College Reading Room, 1^st Floor, David Wilson Library

Grant Denkinson

If you have research funding from a funding council, charity or elsewhere they may require you make your publications Open Access in particular ways.

You might have to do extra things as well as meeting the HEFCE / REF and university policy which applies to all research staff. It is usually relatively simple to comply and not doing so may jeopardise your funding.

Open Access and Research Data Advisor Grant Denkinson will go through some of the main funder Open Access requirements and how you can meet them.

Link to webinar: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/0806bd04816e4176ae8d81ae8fec8b30

Introduction to SciVal – Research Performance Metrics Tool

Wednesday 31^st January

11am, Consultation Room, Doctoral College Reading Room, 1^st Floor, David Wilson Library

Dr William Farrell & Selina Lock

SciVal is one of the leading tools for research evaluation. Using data from Scopus and other sources it allows you to analyse publication and citation metrics, patent data, grant information and media impact. You can benchmark yourself, your institution or your research group against comparable peers. Plus many more features.

This session will introduce you to some of the basic functions of SciVal and how it is useful for understanding research performance.

Link to webinar: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/677ac91fbae84f82828b2b9dd6479b9a

Catalogue your personal library

Wednesday 7^th February

11am, Consultation Room, Doctoral College Reading Room, 1^st Floor, David Wilson Library

Dr William Farrell & Selina Lock

Not sure what books you have in your office or at home? Keep accidentally buying the same book twice? Want to be able to check your personal library via a phone app?

This session will introduce you to some free, visual tools that let you easily and quickly catalogue your own personal library.

Link to webinar: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/dd6231c06c8e41cbb762ae2c5721a7a3

Please contact Selina if you have any questions

How to use SNL for financial research

Following the successful demonstration of Mergent Online , we have another database for you this week: SNL . SNL is a global financial database providing news, macroeconomic data and financials and analytics of banks and insurance companies. It replaces Bankscope, the database we previously used for this area. The data in SNL would be of interest for anyone researching finance, banking or insurance. There will be two demonstrations of the new database SNL on Wednesday 22 nd February Session 1: 12.00 – 1.00 University Library IT Room 1 Session 2: 1.30 - 2.30.University Library IT Room 1 There is an opportunity to do some hands-on practice in these sessions as well receiving tailored support. If you would like to attend please contact Andrew Dunn with your details and any training requests. For more information on how to use and register for SNL follow this link: http://www2.le.ac.uk/library/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...

Search Tips: Phrase Searching and Proximity Searching

Phrase searching Normally when you put two words into a database search it will find those two words anywhere in the title/abstract/keywords: It will do an AND search = diabetes AND mellitus If you want to force the database to do a phrase search then enclose it in “speech marks” “diabetes mellitus” = those words next to each other, in that order Most of the main literature databases we subscribe to at the University of Leicester support phrase searching using speech marks, as do the search engines Google and Google Scholar. However, Scopus treats phrases in "speech marks" as loose phrases, so to do an exact phrase search in Scopus use {curly brackets} around the phrase instead. Extra Tip: Make sure when typing in speech marks that you use the double speech mark symbol " rather than typing in two apostrophes. Proximity (Adjacency) Searching Finds one keyword within a specified number of words of the other, in any order: Diabetes ADJ4 “Type 2” = will find Diabetes withi...

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