Meet the Library Research Services Team & Autumn PGR/Staff Training

Meet the Library Research Services Team

When:
Thursday 24 Oct 2019, between 10:30 to 13:30

Where
Digital Reading Room, Library

Come along to the Library Digital Reading Room for a cuppa and an informal chat with the Library Research Services Team. Find out about using the library, the services we offer to PGRs and explore the roles of the team. Library tours will also be available on the day.

This session is aimed at new PGRs, but all PGRs and researchers are welcome to come along and chat to us. Drop-in session any time between 10:30am-1.30pm

The University Library Research Services team supports the university's research community throughout the research lifecycle by providing a range of services, tools, resources and training to help meet our institutional and individual research priorities and activities.

We provide PhD students and researchers with training and help in these areas:

· Information research skills and capabilities

· Reference management

· Research data management

· Open access

· Open publishing and open journals

· Copyright

· Publishing strategically, dissemination and impact of research

· Researcher development and training

· Research metrics and analysing publication metrics

· Open research and open scholarship

Our team of research service consultants provide research consultations to PhD students and research staff.

We will also be providing some short online videos via Research Essentials Online for PGRs that are based off-campus or can’t make it on the day.

Autumn Term PGR & Staff Training

02-Oct-19	14:30-16:00	Altmetrics: Tracking engagement beyond citations
17-Oct-19	10:00-11:00	Research Data Management: looking after your research material
21-Oct-19	10:00-11:00	Planning your literature search (PGR Only)
23-Oct-19	10.30 _12.00	GDPR & research data management: what does it mean for you?
25-Oct-19	10:00-12:00	Conducting your literature search (PGR Only)
29-Oct-19	10:00-12:00	EndNote
01-Nov-19	10:00-12:00	RefWorks
05-Nov-19	10:00-12:00	Search Strategies for Systematic Reviews in Life Sciences
08-Nov-19	10:00-12:00	Systematic Searching for Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
14-Nov-19	10:00-12:00	Finding Grey Literature (PGR Only)
21-Nov-19	10:00-11:00	Copyright and your thesis (webinar) (PGR Only)
22-Nov-19	10:00-11:00	Research Data Management: looking after your research material
26-Nov-19	10:00-11:00	Planning your literature search (webinar) (PGR Only)
28-Nov-19	10:00-12:00	Conducting your literature search (webinar) (PGR Only)
02-Dec-19	10:00-12:00	EndNote
03-Dec-19	10:00-11:00	How to spot a predatory publisher
09-Dec-19	10:00-12:00	Advanced Endnote (webinar)
10-Dec-19	10:00-12:00	RefWorks
11-Dec-19	14:00-15:00	Organising your images with Tropy (webinar)
13-Dec-19	10:00-12:00	Understanding Archives and Modern Records (PGR Only)

PGRs can book on to session via the new MyPGR system.

Staff can book on to sessions via the staff booking forms - all our training is listed under the Staff Events - Courses & Workshops page

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