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Xmas Library Services and New Year Training

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Library Services over the Xmas Break

Most of the Library Research Services Team will out of the office after Friday 18th December and will be back in on Monday 4th January.

Online library resources will be available as normal over the Xmas break including the library search for ebooks, books, journal articles etc., A-Z Databases for literature searching and the Figshare Leicester Research Archive for open access research publications, data and theses.

The Library Building will be closed on bank holidays but open on other days. Check the Library Opening Hours for full details.

You will still be able to browse and borrow books, and book study spaces on the days the building is open. 

Please remember that the library building is still operating under COVID-19 restrictions, so please:

  • wear a face covering (unless exempt)
  • use the sanitising stations and clean down your study area before and after use
  • bring your University ID for entry
  • no food and drink apart from bottled water
  • the windows have to be open to ensure adequate ventilation so wrap up warm

PGR & Staff Training in the New Year


The Library Research Services Team offer a number of webinar training sessions. In the Spring Term we will be running the following sessions:

  • Altmetrics: Tracking engagement beyond citations
  • How to spot a predatory publisher
  • Planning your literature search 
  • Conducting your literature search
  • EndNote
  • RefWorks
  • Search Strategies for Systematic Reviews in Life Sciences
  • Good practice in Research Data and Records Management
  • Systematic Searching for Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Finding Grey Literature 
  • Figshare for research data sharing
  • Copyright and your thesis
  • Open Research: an introduction
  • Research Data Management Planning
  • Open research: managing research profiles
  • Open Research: open data
  • Organising your images with Tropy
  • Choosing where to publish
  • Open Research: Open Access to research publications
  • Open Research: open monographs
  • Understanding Archives and Modern Records
PGRs can book on to sessions via MyPGR and staff can book via the staff events pages.

Have a Good Break!

We hope all our staff and PGR students manage some rest and relaxation over the Xmas break.
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