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You may be interested in some recent updates to the  Historical Directories of England and Wales  collection, maintained by the University of Leicester Library. Post Office Bradford Directory, 1891  (Bradford: William Byles & Sons, 1891), 634. The collection is the largest freely available digitised collection of trade and street directories. The collection contains 689 directories, with at least one directory for every English and Welsh county for the 1850s, 1890s and 1910s. Searchable by name, place and occupation this is an essential tool for local, urban and family history. In 2019/20, we have: Restored the background pages, originally written by Andrew Hann  http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/custom/background Created a How to Search video  https://youtu.be/Ml3AAvoM0ac Created an online bibliography for scholarship using directories as a source  https://www.zotero.org/groups/2337777/trade_directori...

Do you work with Digital Humanities? Do you want to incorporate DH techniques into your research or teaching, but don’t know where to start? Would you like new ways to study topics within Humanities and Social Sciences?  You are invited to learn more about Gale’s Digital Scholar Lab – a first of its kind online environment for text and data mining featuring Gale’s primary source archives, integrated with powerful analysis tools. Chris Houghton and Tom English from Gale Cengage will show how you can take the University’s existing digital archives (in the Gale family e.g. Eighteenth Century Collections Online or Times Digital Archive) and explore them in completely new ways, quickly creating bespoke content sets that can be cleaned, exported or analysed.  Please drop-in to the Library’s Digital Reading Room between 12 noon and 2pm this  Wednesday 27 March to find out more – there will also be a chance to have a go at Digital Humanities yourself in using nearby computers ...

If you didn't make it to Grant Denkinson's talk on  Software sustainability for Open Scholarship, you can now listen again via this link:   https://connect.le.ac.uk/p3g2byx97a3/ Next week's talk is about Humanities Commons, the new academic networking website from the Modern Languages Association. All welcome, and there is no need to book: please just turn up on the day.  If you can't make it in person, the webinar link is: https://connect.le.ac.uk/humanitiescommons And a recording will be made available on this blog at the end of next week. 

The Library offers several services to help you publish and disseminate your research. We can help you publish reports, journals and conference proceedings. We also support the publishing of digital collections. Research publications  The Library can help you to publish one-off reports in an open access format. See this example  from the  SAPPHIRE Group in Health Sciences .  If you want to start a new open access journal or conference proceedings, we have our own version of Open Journal Systems (OJS). This is journal management and publishing platform for academic  publications. Articles published through this system are free to any reader, and no APCs are charged to authors.  Please contact Library Research Services for more information: librarians@le.ac.uk Digital collections  Some researchers will be collecting materials as part of a project, and may want to publish them online. The Lib...

Our Research Elevenses for January have now finished. Thanks to all the speakers, and to all of you who attended, whether in person or online. Recordings of the talks are available below. If you have questions or comments about what's been covered please email us . Discover Archives and Special Collections The Library has an extensive research collection of rare books, manuscripts, historical photographs, and personal archives. Covering a wide range of subjects, Special Collections includes material relating to many aspects of history, literature, Museum Studies, medicine, science and mathematics. This talk provides an introduction to using the collections for research, and will include an opportunity to see some of the treasures of the Library’s collections close up.   Link to recording : https://connect.le.ac.uk/p92gtpnn0w8/  Electronic PhD theses: our “best sellers” Electronic theses are the most popular downloads from Leicester Resea...

The Research Elevenses sessions are now all available to watch online. Distinguish yourself: Associate your research with you ORCID is your free unique researcher identifier for life.  It allows you to unambiguously associate yourself with your research. Otherwise it can be difficult to know exactly who wrote a paper because many people have similar or identical names. ORCID is independent of any employer, funder or commercial concern. We will look at the benefits of ORCID and how simple it is to set up and maintain. Watch the recording Unlocking REF2014: Text mining to show your impact The Library is building a searchable full text database of the papers submitted by Leicester for REF2014.  It has already been used to help support a business case for a piece of equipment, but there may be many other applications.  This session explains how you can undertake your own text mining projects using EndNote and how the Library can help with larger-scale projects u...

As part of the Research Festival the library are offering Research Bytes sessions . Please book using the links provided: Monday 23 February 2.30-2.55             Don’t lose credit for your research                             How to create a researcher identifier and ensure you get credit for your papers 3.00-3.25             How can we help with your systematic review?                             From scoping your search to managing your references: how the Library can help 3.30-3.55             Keep up to date with new research ...

Our third series of Research Elevenses took place in July and you can find links to all the recordings below. Myths and misconceptions about open access publishing Find out what you really need to know for your future publishing strategy Watch the recording   Who is citing who? And who is citing you? Discover how you can use Scopus, Web of Science & Google Scholar to carry out citation searches and set up citation alerts. Watch the recording     How can we help with your systematic review? Find out how the Library Research Services Team can assist with different stages of your systematic review -from scoping searches to reference management. Watch the recording   Digital Humanities – What on earth is it? Find out about digital humanities projects that are underway at the University and new Library services that can support your research. Watch the recording   From gamma-rays to Roman remains – what can you do with your data? ...

Our fourth Elevenses session looked at the digital humanities projects that are underway at the University. Catch up by watching the 30 minute webinar. Digital Humanities - what on earth is it? Our next session is in the Ogden Lewis Seminar suite (with a cuppa and homemade cakes) or online at 11am on: 29th July From gamma rays to Roman remains - what can you do with your data? Find out how different research groups are sharing, re-using and visualising data in new ways Join the webinar Hope to see you there!

The Research Elevenses return for July with plenty of new topics. The sessions will take place over coffee and cakes in the Ogden Lewis Seminar Suite every Tuesday at 11am. There's no need to book - just turn up! If you are off-campus you can join in live via Adobe Connect. A recording of each session will be made available after the event. 1 July - Myths and misconceptions about open access publishing Find out what you really need to know for your future publishing strategy Watch the recording 8 July - Who is citing who? And who is citing you? Discover how you can use Scopus, Web of Science & Google Scholar to carry out citation searches and set up citation alerts. Watch the recording 15 July - How can we help with your systematic review? Find out how the Library Research Services Team can assist with different stages of your systematic review -from scoping searches to reference management. Watch the recording   22 July - Digital Humanities – What o...

Our workshops for the autumn term are live on PROSE and ready to book. We'll be offering the following workshops this term: Planning your literature search Conducting your literature search Beginners RefWorks Beginners EndNote Copyright and your thesis Advanced RefWorks Advanced EndNote Beginners Prezi Making your research information come to you Our colleague Dr Simon Dixon will also run An Introduction to Digital Humanities , the first in a new series of workshops for research students.You can find more details about all of the courses on PROSE and via the Graduate School events page . Booking via PROSE is essential for all sessions If the dates aren't suitable or you're based off-campus, remember that you can always request more help or a one-to-one appointment on any of the workshop topics. We can talk in person, via Skype, on the phone, or by email. Just email liblass (Law, Arts & Social Sciences) or libstem (Science, Technology & Medicine...

The Library Research Services Team was formed in September 2013, and since then we've been busy providing PhD and researcher training. We have aimed to make more of our training available online as webinars, so we thought we'd do a round-up of those we have been involved in recording during the 2013/14 academic year in case you missed any: Digital Humanities: Stuart Dunn's 'The Emergence of the Online Gazetteer' Watch the recording Thesis Forum: 'Rethinking digital literacies - a sociomaterial analysis of students use of technology' Watch the recording Thesis Forum: 'Finishing the PhD & beyond...' Watch the recording Thesis Forum: 'The APG Review' Watch the recording Thesis Forum: Pat Thomson's 'Writing the Doctorate' Watch the recording Publishing the RCUK way Watch the recording Managing your research output Watch the recording Don't lose your research data! Watch the recording ...