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A reminder that our summer training program starts next week. Do take a look and sing up for anything that looks useful. Our sessions cover a range of areas, including: finding information and literature searching; managing research data, notes and references; copyright and open access; visualising and communicating research.     Training for research students The following sessions are all available to book via  PROSE Planning your literature search Conducting your literature search Introduction to EndNote Introduction to RefWorks Tools for note taking Finding grey literature (online/webinar) Copyright and your thesis (online/webinar) Advanced Endnote What you need to know about Open Access publishing Finding images for research Training for research staff and students  Advanced literature searching Mapping data with google fusion tables Introduct...

Over the last few months we've gained access to a number of new resources that might be useful to researchers, so here's a round-up for you: BenchSci Built by a team of scientists, BenchSci was developed with one thing in mind: to quickly and easily identify published data that support the use of antibodies . For more information about BenchSci:  https://blog.benchsci.com/7-features-to-find-antibodies Learn how to use BenchSci with this short video:  https://youtu.be/EFaDwTtqlv4 Campbell Collaboration Online Library The Campbell Collaboration Online Library (Campbell Library) contains the full text of published systematic reviews and protocols in  Crime and Justice  Disability  Education  International Development   Knowledge Translation and Implementation   Nutrition  Social Welfare  There is also a series of research methods papers. CINAHL CINAHL indexes more than 5000 journals in nursing, m...

As announced recently, we will be hosting the CILIP Local Studies conference on July 9, which will be themed around oral history and sound collections. We choose oral history thanks to the University's, and the region's, strengths in this area. East Midlands Oral History Archive (EMOHA) Based in the Centre for Urban History,  East Midlands Oral History Archive is one of the largest regional collections of its kind. It was o riginally funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund to establish an archive of oral history recordings for Leicestershire & Rutland. It includes the collections of the Leicester Oral History Archive, the Mantle archive from North West Leicestershire, the Community History archive of Leicester City Libraries, the Market Harborough Museum collection, and the sound archive of BBC Radio Leicester, along with smaller collections donated by local organisations or individuals. Following a major digitisation project, the Library's Special Coll...

Library Research Services are running several training sessions for staff and PGRs in May: PGR Training The following sessions are all available to book via PROSE Planning your literature search Conducting your literature search Introduction to EndNote Introduction to RefWorks Tools for note taking Finding grey literature (online/webinar) Copyright and your thesis (online/webinar) Advanced Endnote What you need to know about Open Access publishing Finding images for research Staff & PGR Training Click the links to book via Researcher Development: Advanced literature searching Mapping data with google fusion tables Introduction to Research Data Management Communicating your research with comics We are also happy to provide 1to1 training and support in person, via webinar, via email or via telephone. Or bespoke group training sessions. Just contact us via librarians@le.ac.uk