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1-2-1 Library support over the summer  Although we run less training over the summer, we are always here to help researchers.  We can help you with:  literature searching finding information EndNote RefWorks referencing looking after research data open access - publications & data publication metrics & researcher IDs e.g. citations, ORCID Just drop us an email with your questions, or book a 1-2-1 appointment via librarians@le.ac.uk   Doctoral College Events & support over the summer 1-2-1 Consultancy Sessions Available  Available with Dr Chantal Bielmann over the summer period for support with the following, bookable via cb450@le.ac.uk - Viva and probation review preparation - Writing chapters, papers, abstracts, thesis - Literature review, methodology - Editing and submitting thesis - Managing supervisor relationship Evening Career Event on Enterprise and Start-ups Charles Wilson Fourth Floor SR ...

Are you a new Postgraduate Research Student? Come along and find out about the tools and services the library provides to support your research. Including information resources, reference management software and research data management. 11th January 2019 09:30 am - 10:30 am Key Learning Outcomes •How to use the library search to find articles and books. •Discover the specialist academic databases available in your research area. •How to request items for your research •Look at the reference management tools the University provides (EndNote & RefWorks). •Learn about the fundamentals practices of good research data management. Attenborough Tower Second Floor TR 205 Book your place via PROSE -- If you can't make it to that session or are based off-campus then contact us via librarians@le.ac.uk to book a 1to1 appointment. We can see you in person or via a webinar. We also offer 1to1 inductions for new research staff. Just contact us as above.

30 minute updates on key information issues for Leicester researchers. There’s no need to book - just turn up! Refreshments provided too! Or you can join in the webinar. A recording of each session will be made available after the event. Friday 20 th  July 11am, Consultation Room, Doctoral College Reading Room, 1 st  Floor, David Wilson Library Managing and sharing your research data outputs: what do you do with your research data? Laurian Williamson Discover best practice in planning, managing, storing, and sharing your research data outputs. The University of Leicester will soon be launching a Figshare-powered digital data repository and this session will demonstrate how you can deposit and share your research data outputs. Link to webinar:  https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/ca065d0673c84b06812b84af43769fe6 Listen Again to our 2018 Elevenses: Funder Requirement to share your publications via Europe PMC:  https://youtu.be/-2...

New ‘Research Elevenses’ 30 minute updates on key information issues for Leicester researchers. There’s no need to book - just turn up! Refreshments provided too! Or you can join in the webinar. A recording of each session will be made available after the event. Thursday 5 th July 11am, Consultation Room, Doctoral College Reading Room, 1 st Floor, David Wilson Library Funder requirements to share publications with Europe PMC   Grant Denkinson & Tom Moore Many funders require researchers to make their publications available via Europe Pubmed Central (Europe PMC). This session will cover: -           How to find out what your funder requires -           How to either have your publisher submit your work to Europe PMC or do it yourself Link to webinar:   https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/383a17b9462b45d0a943209c60a67f27 Thursday 12 th July 1...

The Research Services Team in the library don't run our usual courses over the summer, but we're still here to help. We will be running Research Elevenses events and webinars in July - more news on that soon. Online Help We have lots of online help available: Our Researcher pages include advice on literature searching and requesting items for your research. Information and advice on conducting a systematic review . Making your publications open access (articles are required to be open access for REF). Managing your research data . ...and more 1to1 Appointments If you would like any help or advice on literature searching, systematic review search strategies, open access, data management or bibliometrics then please get in touch. We are happy to answer enquiries or provide 1to1 appointments (in person, via phone or webinar). Email: librarians@le.ac.uk Phone: 0116 252 2018 If you are a new PGR/PhD student and would like a library induction then just let...

We now have recordings available of our latest set of Research Elevenses: Satisfying Your Funder’s Open Access Requirements Introduction to SciVal – Research Performance Metrics Tool Catalogue your personal library

30 minute updates on key information issues for Leicester researchers Library Research Services are running a series of 30 minute talks on key issues for Leicester researchers. There’s no need to book - just turn up! Refreshments provided too! If you are off-campus you can join in the webinar. A recording of each session will be made available after the event. Satisfying Your Funder’s Open Access Requirements Wednesday 24 th  January 11am, Consultation Room, Doctoral College Reading Room, 1 st  Floor, David Wilson Library Grant Denkinson If you have research funding from a funding council, charity or elsewhere they may require you make your publications Open Access in particular ways. You might have to do extra things as well as meeting the HEFCE / REF and university policy which applies to all research staff. It is usually relatively simple to comply and not doing so may jeopardise your funding. Open Access and Research Data Advisor Grant Denkin...

Open access at Leicester International OA week  The wrap up of the International Open Access Week 2017 is a perfect occasion to give you an update on Open Access (OA) related activities at University of Leicester accompanied with fun statistics (as fun as statistics can be!). During the Open Access week the University Open Access and Research Data Team ran a series of pop-up stalls at various locations across the main campus as well as in hospital sites (RKCSB & Glenfield), offering advice on raising the discoverability of research profiles. Also as part of the celebrations we have launched a completely redesigned OA website. Visit www.le.ac.uk/openaccess to explore the essential guidance how to make your research outputs OA. Fig.1. Main page of new, redesigned Open Access website ( www.le.ac.uk/openaccess ) The outreach campaign was in addition to routine talks and tailored training sessions that the team provides for departments across the University every y...

EndNote X8 is being made available on staff and student computers for the 2017/18 academic year. For staff computers it will be made available to install through the Program Installer. For student computers it will automatically be made available via the Start - All Programs menu. Remember - the University of Leicester license only allows EndNote X8 to be installed on University owned computers (including University laptops). If you would like to access your references at home then you can sync your EndNote desktop library with EndNote online. What's new in EndNote X8? If you're an existing EndNote user then check out the 5min video on what's new: New to using EndNote? Then check out the 5min video on EndNote's main features You can also find lots more training videos on specific features on the EndNote YouTube Channel .

Centre for English local History Thesis Collection The University of Leicester Library has recently extended some of our digital collections, that might be of interest to historians: Grand Tour Online Primary sources on travel writing of the "Grand Tour" of Europe between 1550 and 1850 Jacoby Online An ancient history database: texts of ancient Greek historians including Brill’s New Jacoby and Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker or Fragments of the Greek Historians (FGrHist) Parts I-V JustisOne A law database: full-text historic UK and Irish legislation from 1235, and links to full-text case law from other legal providers State Papers Online State Calendars and Papers from both the Tudor (1509-1603) and Stuart (1603-1714) periods The Times of India Online archive of key colonial newspaper from 1838 to 2007 The Library and the Centre for Local History have also teamed up to create a new resource: Centre for English Local Hist...

Make a date with your writing and join us for distraction-free writing sessions in person or online. Working on a thesis, journal article or book chapter? Need some distraction-free writing time? Library Research Services are running Shut Up & Write! sessions for researchers. Tuesday mornings 10am-12noon. 15 th , 22 nd , 29 th August (Physics Ground Floor LR LTD) and 5 th September (Archaeology Ground Floor SR1). Session outline: 10am: Arrival & Prep 10.15am: Write 11am: Break & Refreshments 11.15am: Write 12noon: End There is no need to book, just bring your laptop, pad & pen, or preferred writing tools! If you can’t join us in person then join us online via https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/ef24ea4a82934bc0b630a85859eab9f8 Any questions, please email Selina Lock: stl5@le.ac.uk    *Please be aware that these events are not aimed at providing writing help or advice. Please see the University Research Writi...

If you missed any of our Research Elevenses this month then you can now watch the recordings - available for anyone to watch: Software sustainability for open scholarship Grant Denkinson The global movement towards open access has led to sharing publications with the world and increasingly sharing some research data.  For some, the method and process of research is encoded in software. How do we pass on that knowledge too? Whether you have written a couple of lines of scripts or a few macros to make manipulate your data or whether you are part of a consortium of programmers developing a package widely used in your field you may be thinking of reusing your code in the future or sharing it with colleagues. This session will introduce a few tips for making your software sustainable and sharable. Watch Now:  https://connect.le.ac.uk/p3g2byx97a3/   Introducing Humanities Commons Dr William Farrell Humanities Commons is the new networking website pr...

New ‘Research Elevenses’ for July This July we are running a series of 30 minute talks on key issues for Leicester researchers. There’s no need to book - just turn up! Refreshments provided too! 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. Tuesday 11 th July 11am, Fielding Johnson South Wing, Ogden Lewis Seminar Suite 3 Software sustainability for open scholarship Grant Denkinson The global movement towards open access has led to sharing publications with the world and increasingly sharing some research data.  For some, the method and process of research is encoded in software. How do we pass on that knowledge too? Whether you have written a couple of lines of scripts or a few macros to make manipulate your data or whether you are part of a consortium of programmers developing a package widely used in your field you may be thinking of reusing your code in the future ...

Why are we changing names? We've changed our name because the Graduate School is becoming the Doctoral College and so the Graduate School Reading Room will also be changing it's name. We also thought that the Graduate School Reading Room no longer reflects who posts to this blog and what we post about. Are we changing what we do? No, we'll still be blogging and tweeting about all the things we think might be useful and of interest to researchers. However, more members of the team will be contributing to the blog so there will be more posts on a wider range of subjects. Our new focus is We are the David Wilson Library Research Services Team. Helping researchers with everything from literature searching to open research to publication impact. Blogging and tweeting items of interest to PGRs, ECRs and researchers.