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New PGR? Join us for one of our  Researcher@Library: tools and services to support your research sessions in October. Researcher@Library: tools and services to support your research Find out about the tools and services the library provides to support your research. Including information resources, reference management software and research data management. Come along in person or join us online via the webinar. 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 fundamenta...

The 2018/19 academic year begins in the next few week. With it comes new PGR and staff training run by the Library Research Services team. We run workshops on a range of topics about finding, managing and using information in research.  Some of our core sessions and dates for the Autumn term have been announced. Further sessions, including those on research data , will be announced later in the term. 'Online sessions' are webinars, intended for those of you who can't make it onto campus.  Title  Date Planning your literature search 16 October 2018 Conducting your literature search 18 October 2018 Planning literature search (online) 23 October 2018 Conducting literature search (online) 25 October 2018 Introduction to EndNote  26 October 2018 Introduction to RefWorks   30 October 2018 Mapping data with Google Fusion Tables 31 October 2018 Advanced literature ...

 As the summer term starts, so does the Library's training workshops for researchers. Our program covers a range of sessions all related to finding, managing and using information.  These include: Planning and conducting a literature search Introduction to EndNote and RefWorks Looking after your stuff: research data management and data management plans Search strategies for systematic reviews Visualising research data Copyright and your thesis Communicating research with comics. You can find further information about all these session (and more) on PROSE . If you can't make a workshop, you are welcome to see Selina or myself individually. Please email: librarians@le.ac.uk to arrange an appointment.   Recording of some the workshops will be made available in the Research Essentials Online module in Blackboard . 

Bookings are now open for our Spring workshops: Introduction to the Library Introduction to reference management Introduction to research data management Planning your literature search - online version Conducting your literature search - online version Introduction to EndNote - online tutorial Introducing RefWorks - online tutorial Pubmed vs Medline Who is citing who? - video version Making research information come to you - online version Advanced literature searching - booking form Search Strategies for Systematic Reviews in Medicine and Psychology - booking form Tools for note taking Finding grey literature Looking After Your Research Material: An Introduction to Research Data Management (RDM) and Data Management Plans (DMPs) - booking form Advanced Endnote - online tutorial [PDF] Advanced RefWorks - online tutorial Open Access: what you need to know Introduction to Prezi Finding images for research Copyright and your thesis Building interactive timel...

Our colleagues in IT Services offer software and training that may be of interested to researchers: Work off-campus - instructions on accessing email, files and installing Office on your own machine. Programs for home use - information on software you can install at home for free or at a discount, such as NVivo, SAS and SPSS Research computing facilities - for those that might need high performance computing, wikis or filedrop services Help & training - they run training courses on a variety of Office programs. We would highly recommend the Word - Long Document Essentials training to anyone writing a thesis. If you will need to use software packages to analysis statistics or data then we suggest you look at the Research Methods & Methodologies training available from our colleagues in Researcher Development. And don't forget that the library also runs lots of training for researchers too!

Easter Postcard from the New York Public Library Collections The Library Research Services Team hope you have a good Easter break. Try to find some time to have some fun alongside doing your research! Our team will be out of the office Friday 25th March - Wednesday 30th March . We'll be back in again on Thursday 31st March. If you are planning on using the library over Easter then please check our Opening Hours . Remember that after Easter from April 11th there will be a New Look Library Search . We've also put up all our Summer Term workshops for research students.

Next term's training workshops is now listed on PROSE and on our page s. Our sessions on EndNote, RefWorks, literature searching and systematic reviews are being repeated. So too are the sessions that cover publishing, data management and analysis, Omeka and database design. New this term: A course on using XML  that will be of interest to anyone working in the digital humanities. An online version of Enhancing Your Digital Profile for distance learners and those who can't make it in person. Chantal Bielmann will be running a four week course on ArchGIS , the software for creating maps and using geographic data.  The workshops are open to all PhD students and are free to sign up to. If you have any questions about our training workshops, please email librarians@le.ac.uk.

As a new year begins, it may be time to learn new skills. Is there something you want to improve in 2016, or training that you missed last term? We can help. The Library's workshops for researchers include sessions on literature searching, Endnote & RefWorks, Open Access publishing, managing and using data. New this term are Beginners' Prezi and communicating research through comic strips.  The full list can be found here: http://www2.le.ac.uk/library/for/researchers/workshops/workshops You can also learn new IT skills in Microsoft Office (including Access), research computing (including Linux) and website authoring. Further details here: http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/lli/events/courses/it Finally, if you want to take a break from research why not explore your creative side at the Attenborough Arts Centre? This term they are offering a range of courses in art, music, dancing,and craft. http://www2.le.ac.uk/hosted/attenborougharts/creativelearning/d...

The Library research Services Team will once again be providing lots of workshops and events in the Spring term: For New PhD Students Fri 15th Jan, 10am  – Introduction to Reference Management Fri 15th Jan   - 10.30am  – Introduction to Research Data Management Fri 15th Jan – 11.30am  – Introduction to the Library To book on to the Introduction to... sessions please go to PROSE Once you have logged in to PROSE, search by key term ‘Introduction’. For All PhD students All of the workshops below are now available to book via PROSE. Planning your literature search Conducting your literature search Making research information come to you EndNote RefWorks Finding grey literature Who is citing who? Copyright & your thesis Beginners Prezi PubMed vs Medline Raising your publication profile through open access Publishing in a peer-review journal Communicating your research as a comic strip Enhancing your digital profile Search strategies...

Dr William Farrell, Dr Ian Rowlands & Selina Lock Welcome to all our new PhD students and welcome to a new academic year for our existing students. Inductions & Introductions to... The Library Research Services Team will be on hand at the following events for a chat and to answer questions: College Induction Events Friday 9 th Oct - College of Arts, Humanities and Social Science Wednesday 14 th Oct – College of Medicine, Biological Sciences and Psychology Wednesday 21 st Oct – College of Science and Engineering Introduction to... We are also running our own Introduction to... events : Wed 28 th Oct – 11am – Introduction to the Library Wed 28 th Oct -  2pm  – Introduction to Research Data Management Thurs 29 th Oct – 11am – Introduction to Reference Management Thurs 29 th Oct - 2pm – Introduction to the Library Fri 30 th Oct – 11am  – Introduction to Reference Management Fri 30 th Oct  - 2pm  – Introd...

A series of short videos are now available to replicate our session on 'Raising your publication profile through Open Access' Research funders and the University expect researchers to make their research publications openly available. If you'd like to explore the options available to you we have a handy flowchart to help. These videos will introduce you to the options for making your publications open access, and discuss the many benefits for researchers, not least maximising your impact.   Find out more on our webpages  or contact us .

Our PGR workshops will be starting again in May and you can book places via PROSE Workshops this term include: Planning your literature search ( online version ) Conducting your literature search ( online version ) Making research information com to you ( online version ) Who is citing who? ( online video - 18mins) EndNote RefWorks Prezi Visualising Data Advanced RefWorks Advanced EndNote Brand new for this term we have: Raising your publication profile through Open Access  Starting to publish your research? Do you know if your funder requires you to make your work open access? Want to ensure your publications can be read widely? Then come along to this session... 10am on the 10th June... book via PROSE If you can't make it to the workshops and would like help, or a 1to1 appointment (in person or via skype), then email librarians@le.ac.uk