Xmas Library Services and New Year Training

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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