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This academic year saw the thesis forum return for three sessions. The Probation Review Eric Akobeng (Economics), Graham Aldred (Archaeology & Ancient History) and Suzi Shimwell (English) shared their experiences of passing the probation review.   Presenting the PhD Rahma Al Foori (Media & Communication), Dr Hamid Mani (Leicester Diabetes Centre), Yupei Zhao (Media & Communication) and Matthew Adamson (Maths) shared experiences of presenting at conferences and dealing with the peer review process.   Reflecting on the PhD Dr Thomas Tagoe (Cell Physiology) and Dr Barbara Cooke (English) shared their experiences of completing a PhD. If you missed the events you can watch recordings here (Leicester IT account required). You will also find the videos from our 2012/13 sessions. We are very grateful for the contributions of all our speakers this year. Their honest reflections on the process of doing the PhD have been a great benefit to current doct...

This blog post looks at how to create citation alerts for specific articles in the three main citation databases. You can see more details of how to set-up search alerts and RSS feeds in our previous blog posts: Search alerts for science and medicine databases Search alerts for arts, humanities and social science databases Setting up Author alerts or RSS feeds Web of Science Search Web of Science for the article you are interested in. If you find it, click on the article title and then click on the Create Citation Alert link on the right-hand side of the page. You will need to login to, or create, a Web of Science account to activate the alert. Scopus Search Scopus for the article you are interested in. If you find it, click on the article title and then click on the Set Citation Alert link on the right-hand side of the page. You will need to login to, or create, a Scopus account to activate the alert. You can also set-up an RSS feed by clicking on the Set Citati...

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...

In most  literature databases you can set-up an author alert or RSS by doing an author search and then following the normal instructions for setting up a search alert or RSS feed. You can see more details of how to set-up search alerts and RSS feeds in our previous blog posts: Search alerts for science and medicine databases Search alerts for arts, humanities and social science databases Here are a couple of examples of setting up author alerts in popular databases: Web of Science Make sure you are searching the Web of Science Core Collection as below: Enter the author's name (Surname, Initial/s) and change the search field drop down box to author (as above). On the left-hand side of the results page you will see an option to Create Alert (as above). Click on this, login into, or create, a Web of Science account and then set as a search alert or RSS feed. EbscoHost (America: Life & History, Art Full Text, Criminal Justice Abstracts, EConLit, Historical...

On Wednesday we held our final thesis forum of the 2013/14 academic year. The focus was on the Probation Review and we welcomed three speakers to share their experiences: Eric Akobeng (Economics), Graham Aldred (Archaeology & Ancient History) and Suzi Shimwell (English) Leicester students can access a video recording of the whole forum via the Research Essentials Online module on Blackboard. Please go to Blackboard and select Research Essentials Online (APUX005)  then THESIS FORUM and select 28 May 2014. STEM students might be interested in our Probation Review session from 19 March 2013 which featured Pete Hague (Theoretical Astrophysics) and John Coxon (Physics & Astronomy). If you have any difficulties accessing these recordings please get in touch . You can also find recordings of earlier Thesis Forum sessions on Research Essentials Online or via the Graduate School page The Thesis Forum will return next academic year!

A quick guide on how to find University of Leicester etheses and print theses. We have over 1800 theses available electronically via the Leicester Research Archive : Browsing eTheses by College and Department: Click on the College and Department of interest and then click on Theses:   You can then search the theses within that Department, or click on browse (by Title, Author or Issue Date):   In this example we choose browse by title:  Click on the title of the thesis you wish to view:   You will then see details about the thesis, and be given the option to open the full text PDF of the thesis.  If 'embargo until: [DATE]' is displayed, the PDF will not be available for download until after this date. You will still be able to view the thesis in the library. As you can see above you can also see statistics on how many people have viewed and downloaded the thesis. Searching for eThese s in the Leicester Researc...

There are many PhD students and researchers within the University who are undertaking research in the form of a systematic review, particularly within medicine, health and psychology. We wanted to highlight the stages of a systematic review where the Library Research Services Team can provide help and support.  We can advise on any of the stages in red and with reference management. What is a systematic review? A systematic review is a type of literature review that attempts to find all published and unpublished material on a specific research question. The studies found are then appraised against specific eligibility criteria. Data is extracted and synthesized from the eligible studies to produce a summary of evidence from the relevant research. Scoping Search To identify existing systematic reviews in the research area. To check the scope of the research available and help inform the research question. To help find appropriate databases, keywords and subject terms ...