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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 ...

Selection of recent print theses. Here at the David Wilson Library, University of Leicester we still have a print collection of theses. However, we don't expect people to access the print copy in this day and age. We make the PDF copy of a thesis openly available to download (where possible) via our Leicester Research Archive , alongside other research publications from the University. We have also digitised and made available the majority of our theses back to the 1920s. In fact theses are the most popular and most downloaded items in the Leicester Research Archive! You would never get this many people looking at, or reading, a printed thesis! Here's Our Top 25 Most Downloaded Theses (For the period 01/07/2012 to 31/07/2018) Dept/School Title Author No. Downloads 1 School of Education Social and psychological factors in learning English as a foreign language in Lebanon. Yazigy, Rula Jamil. 15776 ...

As part of the University of Leicester Library subscriptions we subscribe to Digimap, an online map and data delivery service. We now have two more collections available via Digimap: Marine Digimap Marine Digimap offers two types of data. Firstly, raster nautical charts are derived from UK Hydrographic Office paper charts and chart panels. This chart dataset comes in two versions: Raster Charts and Raster Charts XL, which excludes land-based features so you can add your own. Secondly, Marine Themes vector data covers all UK waters and is a feature rich dataset derived from authoritative material obtained from the UK Hydrographic Offices, as well as comprehensive source data where available. Marine Themes Vector is engineered into logical data layers for easy loading and efficient use in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Data attributes have been designed with analysis and querying in mind. All data is licensed by OceanWise. Marine data is extensively used in off...

Last week's talk on how to use Altmetric Explorer to track online engagement with research is now available on YouTube: Altmetrics are web-based metrics that track engagement with research outputs. For example, recording how an article been tweeted, cited in Wikipedia or picked up by news outlets. This session looks at how the Altmetric Explorer database can be used to analysis online engagement with research. If you have any questions about using Altmetric Explorer, please email us on: librarians@le.ac.uk

This week's Elevenses talk  Research data management and Figshare is now available to listen to our YouTube channel:  https://youtu.be/xWkcJz15MiI Laurian Williamson, Head of Research Services at the University of Leicester Library, introduces Figshare and how it can be used to  store and share your research data outputs

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...

If you missed Grant Denkinson's talk on funder requirements to share publications with Europe PMC, it is now available on our YouTube channel:  https://youtu.be/-2NBPWcAcVQ Many funders require researchers to make their publications available via Europe Pubmed Central (Europe PMC). The talks covers: -            How to find out what your funder requires -            How to either have your publisher submit your work to Europe PMC or do it yourself. If you have any questions, please email the Library Research Services team: librarians@le.ac.uk