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January 2021 has been a very busy start to the year for the Library Research Services Team. We have been out and about (well, in a virtual environment only 😊) engaging with some of our internal and external stakeholders and communities. These are always really useful events to be part of, as it really helps to hear the conversations around research activities, challenges, and successes, both locally and in the sector.  A couple of highlights of our engagement activities Team attendance at the University of Leicester College of Life Sciences ECRs and Research staff meet the Deans event Delivering an introduction to RDM training session for the Central England NERC Training Alliance (CENTA) Doctoral Training Partnership Co-delivering a presentation  Figshare Fest 2021  with Professor Panos Vostanis  on our University of Leicester case study on research data management (RDM) and sharing research outputs. Check out Professor Panos's blog  and The World Awareness fo...

We hope you enjoyed the Christmas and New Year festivities! It's a good time to reflect on achievements of the year past and set intentions for the year ahead. If one of your intentions is to improve your research methods, adopt a new approach or increase your productivity come and talk to us for advice! You can book onto any of our January sessions using the links below - Researcher@Library  T ools and services to support your research When: 11th January 2019, 09:30-10:30 Where: Attenborough Second Floor TR 205 Book via PROSE Planning your literature search When: 14th January 2019, 10:00-11:00 Where: Seminar Room 0.02, Leicester Learning Institute, 105 Princess Road East Book via PROSE Conducting your literature search When: 18th January 2019, 10:00-11:00 Where: David Wilson Library - IT Room 2 (Ground floor) Book via PROSE EndNote reference management software When: 22nd January 2019, 10:00 - 12:00 Book via this link Managing your r...

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...

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 

Benchmarking RDM Training The University of Leicester research data service is  involved in an international collaborative project which aims to assess and benchmark the quality of RDM training across institutions.This blog post reports on the progress of the international project so far, it originally appeared on the project blog   on 6th October 2017.    Remember, you can sign up for one of our generic or discipline-specific 2017/2018 introduction to RDM training sessions here . We look forward to seeing you. How effective is your RDM training? Collaborators  (in alphabetical order by surname): Cadwallader Lauren, Higman Rosie, Lawler Heather, Neish Peter, Peters Wayne, Schwamm Hardy, Teperek Marta, Verbakel Ellen, Williamson, Laurian, Busse-Wicher Marta When developing new training programmes, one often asks oneself a question about the quality of training. Is it good? How good is it? Trainers often develop feedback questionnaires and ask p...